Presented by Joseph Githingi (Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries) at the Follow-up Meeting to Discuss Private sector Participation in Animal Health Services, ILRI, Nairobi, 7 November 2019

1. Enhancing private sector
participation in animal health
services
Resolutions from Isiolo Shaba Meeting
Follow-up Meeting to Discuss Private Sector
Participation in Animal Health Services
ILRI, Nairobi, 7 November 2019
Joseph Githingi
Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries

2. General introduction
• Approximately 80% of people in ASAL derive their
livelihood from livestock enterprise
• Close to 70% of rural labour force in these areas is
employed in the livestock subsector
• Unexploited livelihood diversification
• Low literacy levels
• Over the years development of this subsector has not
kept pace with the needs of the people
• Poorly managed rangelands have led to lack of
pastures and fodder for livestock
• Frequent outbreaks of livestock diseases cause
preventable losses to the poor

3. Challenges facing livestock subsector in (ASALs)
1. Frequent diseases outbreaks
– Disease control activities are reactive rather than
proactive
– Vaccination coverage usually very low
– Disease interventions county-based, not effective
and needs regional approach
– Uncontrolled livestock movement in search of
pasture, water and trade
– Poor linkages between private and public sector
in regard to animal health service delivery

4. Challenges cont’d
2 . Disease surveillance
- Lacks regional approach, interventions
ineffective
- Many players- uncoordinated
- Lack of central data base for surveillance
reports and reporting systems that links
various players at all levels
- Minimal Community involvement
- Weak technological capacity

5. 3. Misuse of veterinary drugs
- Pastoralists are thinly dispersed over a very wide
geographical area.
- Extensive nature of livestock production, - long
distances to report diseases
- Poor infrastructure- roads, mobile telephony, financial
institutions, diagnostic labs, etc
- Widespread self-diagnosis and medication of animals
- Abundance of counterfeit and substandard drugs-
porous borders (lack of regional regulatory
mechanisms)
- Low public awareness of dangers of drugs misuse
- Weak industry regulation- inspectorate services

6. 4. Inefficient veterinary Public health
services
– Sub-standard infrastructure - enforcement lost
momentum with devolution
– Inadequate staff/Meat inspectors
– Poor road network to support centralization
– Unavailability of enough quantities of portable
water
– High levels of poverty in rural settlements
– Low meat consumption rates,
– Vastness of the area, etc.

7. 5. Human resource development and
management
- Inadequate numbers of technical staff
- Aging, retiring and de-motivated labour force
- Stagnation in career progression, no capacity
building, poor work environment
- No clear succession management

8. 6. Insufficient budgetary allocation
- weak linkage between budgets and work
plans
- Funds devolved down to County headquarter
level-
- Pooling of finances
- Transport inadequate and unreliable for
service delivery
- Emergency responses delayed
- Paralysed extension services

9. 7. Poorly managed rangelands and grazing
- Resource-based conflicts
- Depletion of natural resources
- Land degradation
- Land pressure/carrying capacity
- Lack of legislation
- Encroachment of settlements in grazing lands
8. Lack of commercialization of livestock
keeping
- Dependency syndrome
- Maintains diseases in herds
- Youths unwilling to embrace livestock keeping

10. The Sarova meeting tried to address one of
the key challenges in livestock subsector; that
is to improve animal health service through
enhancing the participation of private sector

11. Resolutions agreed at the stakeholders' meeting held
at Sarova Shaba Game Lodge, Isiolo on 18th July 2019
We,
• HE the governor ,Isiolo County,
• CECM responsible for veterinary matters &
CDVSs of; Isiolo, Samburu, Marsabit, wajir,
Garissa, Tana River, Laikipia and Bungoma
counties
• The National government (SDL & DVS)
• Private sector representative (Sidai, Farmers
Agrisystem Capacity Technology solutions Ltd,
met at Sarova Saba Game lodge in Isiolo County on
18th July 2019,

12. Conscious
of the current and potential contribution of animal
resources to the development of the people of kenya and
the realization of the Kenya Vision 2030, the provisions
of the Kenya Constitution (2010) that created devolved
governments in Kenya
Aware
of the threats to animal production particularly animal
diseases and pests
Recognizing
the significance of animal resources in attainment of food
security
Desirous
of improved public, animal and environmental health,

13. Keen to generate wealth from animal resources for the
benefit of future generations,
Affirming the need to conserve animal resources for the
benefit of future generations
Acknowledging the mutually inclusive roles of the county
governments, national government and the private
sector in animal health services
Cognizant of and prepared to abide by policies, strategies,
guidelines, nationals, county laws, regional and
international animal health treaties, agreements and
standards ratified by kenya

14. Resolve to;
1. Cooperate and consult , at all times, on matters of
animal diseases and pests control;
2. Actively encourage private sector investment in
animal health services and work with the private
sector in animal health service delivery and remove
any barriers to delivery of animal health services
including vaccination by the private sector;
3. Abide by relevant national, regional and international
laws, treaties, protocols, and standards; especially
the OIE standards, ratified by Kenya

15. Resolutions cont’d
4. Stop delivery of free veterinary medicines and
vaccines except for those that the government has
declared for eradication and emergencies
5. Urge the DVS to issue a circular clarifying the
roles and responsibilities of the CDVS and the
private sector in delivery of veterinary medicines
and vaccines in accordance with the existing laws
and regulations
6. Regularly sensitize stakeholders in the animal
resources industry including county assemblies on
sustainable approaches to animal disease and
pests control

16. 7. Support veterinary medicines directorate to completely
eradicate counterfeit and fake veterinary drugs and
illegal practitioners;
8. Support livestock identification and traceability system
initiative in Kenya
Signed this Thursday 18th July 2019
 H.E Dr. Mohamed Abdi Kuti, EGH
Governor County Of Isiolo
for the County governments
 Lornah Odero, MBS
Director of Administration On behalf of the PS SDL
for the National Government
 Dr. Christie Peacock, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, Sidai Africa
for the Private sector

17. Thanks you!