The East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD1) aimed to transform the lives of smallholder farming families in East Africa by doubling their household dairy income over 10 years. The $42.85 million project ran from 2008-2013 with partners including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Heifer International, and various research organizations. EADD1 established country offices in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda and had over 120 staff. The project worked to harness information, expand market access, and increase productivity and efficiencies to benefit over 1 million people. Key activities included establishing village banks, chilling/bulking facilities, artificial insemination, feed supply, and field days.

1. East Africa Dairy
Development Project
Addis- Ababa, 10th January 2013

2. Motivation
 EADD1 pilot – Factsheet
 Scope
 Duration: Jan 2008-Jun 2013
 Budget: USD42.85 M + USD8.5M
supplement (BMGF) for 1 additional
year
 Investment fund: USD5.0m
 BMGF: USD2.5m
 Heifer: USD2.5m
 Partners
 BMGF
 HI - lead
 TNS - business
 ILRI – knowledge-based learning
 ABS – genetics & breeding
 ICRAF – feeds & feeding
 Structure (120+ staff)
 Country offices
 Kenya
 Rwanda
 Uganda
 Regional office

3. Motivation (cont.)
 EADD Vision and Objectives
Vision
Transform the lives of 179,000
smallholder farming families
(approximately 1 million people) by
doubling their household dairy income in
10 years.
Objectives
•Harness information for decisions and
innovation
•Expand access to markets
•Increase productivity and efficiencies of
scale

4. FARMERS
OTHER RELATED
MEs
HARDWARE SUPPLIERS
CHILLING or BULKING
VILLAGE BANKS FACILITIES
FIELD DAYS
TESTING
AI & FEED TRANSPORTERS
EXTENSION SUPPLY

5. GAAP related activities
EADD fits into GAAP Objective 2 (Strengthening capacity
to use analysis to develop and test strategies to improve project impact on
women’s assets)
1. To undertake a review of the existing data from the baseline survey, the mid- Not started
term evaluation and project progress monitoring data and ascertain the extent to
which the sets of data can be used to analyze and track the impact of the project
on women’s assets.
2. To select some of the strategies identified and implemented to increase Not started &
benefits to women, and evaluate their efficiency and effectiveness in improving won’t be done in
women’s assets EADD1
3. To incorporate a scope on assessing the impact of EADD 1 on gender and Early 2013
agricultural assets in the final evaluation.
4. To integrate gender and agricultural assets in the theory of change and the Done (Dee’s
program design of EADD Phase 2. support in June)

6. Gender Strategy in EADD II
A twofold approach
•A separate and cross cutting major objective on gender to ensure that supporting
outputs and activities are included fully in the project design and budgeted for:
- EADD-2 wide gender policy/strategy
- Enhanced capacity of EADD staff and partners to mainstream gender
•Relevant gender outputs and activities are mainstreamed in the other respective
major objectives

7. Proposed Gender Activities in
EADD II
1. Increasing access to 2. Increasing returns to 3. Reducing risks
assets that women assets by increasing and vulnerability
require to participate productivity and/or
fully in project activities improving access to
and benefit from these market
(Meinzen-Dick et al., 2011

8. 1. Increasing access to assets that require women
to participate fully in project activities and benefit
from them.
Type of Examples of capital Gender based constraints Possible Strategies
capital
Physical Equipment required for dairy Sgnificantly fewer female headed households Access to loans through groups
production and marketing; owned assets compared to male headed
cattle households.
Natural Land, water Women less likely to own exotic cattle (within Encouraging households to register different cows
households and across all countries, both local under different members names
and exotic cattle were mainly owned by men)
Political Identity card, assertiveness in Women represent 19 and 25 % of Board Link with Department of Registration of persons to
meetings, leadership position in members in Kenya and Uganda facilitate access to IDs; Enforce legal requirement of
DFBA at least 1/3 women in Boards
Social Being a member of a group, Farmers groups
ability to participate in Training on assertiveness and leadership skills;
collective action exchange visits
Human Education, health Female heads of households had significantly Appropriateness of technologies promoted-e.g dual
fewer years of schooling than male headed crops-fodder and food
households in Kenya and Rwanda. Household approach to extension services
Financial DFBA shares, savings account Women constitute 30% of shareholders (June
2012)
Significantly higher proportions of men than
women had applied for a loan across the 3 EADD
countries.
EADD baseline report 6 (gender), 2009

9. 2. Increased returns to assets by increasing
productivity and/or improving access to market
Participation in specific value chain
is gendered.
Proposed strategies:
•Training
• bargaining and negotiation skills, especially those participating in informal
markets and carving business roles along the chain (butter in Ethiopia,
youth milk transporters in Uganda)
•Innovative modes of payment
• mobile money technology to allow women access financial services
•Broaden check off system:
• includes household food stuff as a win –win strategy for the household and the
DFBA: women would be encouraged to sell milk through the DFBA and be able to
get more affordable food items

10. 3. Reducing risks and vulnerability
EADD interventions may increase household
vulnerability to shocks
Proposed strategies -
•Introducing improved breeds gradually
•Providing linkages with financial services providers

11. Lessons from EADD I

12. Recap - EADD I to EADD II
EADD I Proposed for EADD II
Gender analysis By product of “Know Her” - Gender analysis at various levels of the value chains
the baseline
Attention to limited “Design for Her” - Gender mainstreamed in all Major Objectives +
gender (and 1 Objective on Gender and Youth Empowerment
youth)
Partner in charge HI All partners - gender is mainstreamed in all Major Objectives
Activities Some Embedded in other activities based on analysis of gender based
constraints
Monitoring & Limited “Be accountable to Her” - Sex and age group disaggregated
Evaluation monitoring template
Profile case studies to gain deeper understanding of outputs
especially at HH level
Evaluation- undertake thematic studies on gender and youth

13. Next steps
1. To undertake a review of the existing data from the baseline survey, the mid- TBD
term evaluation and project progress monitoring data and ascertain the extent to
which the sets of data can be used to analyze and track the impact of the project
on women’s assets.
2. To incorporate a scope on assessing the impact of EADD 1 on gender and Early 2013
agricultural assets in the final evaluation.

14. GAAP Partner Organizations