Priority themes
While the participants were on the field trip, the facilitators analyzed data from the outputs to date and came up with a list of priority themes. These were further distilled and presented as a paired-choice exercise. The participants were asked to reconvene in their discussion groups and complete the paired-choice exercise as a group, i.e. one completed paired-choice table per group. The results were then tabulated in-session and these became the list of priority themes for the consideration in the final strategy. The completed tables are presented below.
Objective 1: A glass of Asian milk per day for every Asian child
Human Resources & Knowledge management | 20 |
Competitiveness & Productivity | 14 |
Social/poverty issues | 13 |
Institutions & Regulation | 12 |
Safety & Quality | 10 |
Enabling Environment | 9 |
Finance | 9 |
Consumers & Market access | 7 |
Environment | 6 |
Private Sector Engagement | 5 |
Value Chain Integration | 4 |
Objective 2: Regional dairy food security
8. Human Resources & Knowledge management | 19 |
3. Safety & Quality | 18 |
9. Environment | 16 |
2. Competitiveness & Productivity | 13 |
11. Social/poverty issues | 13 |
4. Enabling Environment | 10 |
10. Consumers & Market access | 7 |
7. Finance | 5 |
6. Institutions & Regulation | 4 |
5. Value Chain Integration | 3 |
1. Private Sector Engagement | 1 |
Objective 3: Ten per cent of existing smallholder producers in each country become commercial dairy entrepreneurs
8. Human Resources & Knowledge management | 10 |
4. Enabling Environment | 8 |
10. Consumers & Market access | 8 |
2. Competitiveness & Productivity | 6 |
5. Value Chain Integration | 6 |
1. Private Sector Engagement | 4 |
6. Institutions & Regulation | 4 |
7. Finance | 4 |
3. Safety & Quality | 3 |
9. Environment | 1 |
11. Social/poverty issues | 0 |
Objective 4: Each link in the dairy food chain becomes more efficient, productive and profitable
2. Competitiveness & Productivity | 10 |
8. Human Resources & Knowledge management | 9 |
10. Consumers & Market access | 8 |
3. Safety & Quality | 6 |
4. Enabling Environment | 5 |
7. Finance | 5 |
1. Private Sector Engagement | 4 |
5. Value Chain Integration | 4 |
6. Institutions & Regulation | 2 |
11. Social/poverty issues | 2 |
9. Environment | 0 |
Objective 5: Higher earnings for safer quality milk
2. Competitiveness & Productivity | 19 |
10. Consumers & Market access | 18 |
7. Finance | 16 |
8. Human Resources & Knowledge management | 15 |
3. Safety & Quality | 12 |
4. Enabling Environment | 10 |
5. Value Chain Integration | 8 |
1. Private Sector Engagement | 5 |
9. Environment | 3 |
11. Social/poverty issues | 3 |
6. Institutions & Regulation | 0 |
Objective 6: National recognition of the value of smallholder dairy production
3. Safety & Quality | 69 |
8. Human Resources & Knowledge management | 61 |
10. Consumers & Market access | 53 |
6. Institutions & Regulation | 45 |
5. Value Chain Integration | 43 |
7. Finance | 43 |
11. Social/poverty issues | 41 |
2. Competitiveness & Productivity | 38 |
4. Enabling Environment | 19 |
9. Environment | 11 |
1. Private Sector Engagement | 8 |
The final choice of the priority themes was not based on numbers alone. The guiding principle was elicitation of expert knowledge. For example, it was quickly noted that private sector engagement was ranked very low. However, through discussion, it was agreed that: