Dar es Salaam, 25th March 2012:
MUVEK Development Solutions has organised a two-day event to launch
Research Into Use (RIU) Programme knowledge outputs. The outputs will
be launched by Prime Minister Honarable Mizengo Pinda on Wednesday
28th March 2012. The knowledge outputs are lessons and recommendations
from implementing the RIU Programme in Tanzania between June 2008 and
June 2011. The programme worked to develop the indigenous chicken
industry towards increased productivity and competitiveness.
The launch event will highlight policy and practice lessons which have
the potential to socially and economically transform the industry as
well as promote rural innovation, entrepreneurship and consequently
improve rural incomes and wealthy distribution. RIU will briefly
present its work in Tanzania including the analysis of the indigenous
poultry industry, lessons and challenges. Key policy and practice
recommendations from the knowledge outputs will be present as specific
issues that need to be addressed in order to successfully
commercialise the indigenous poultry industry that is inclusive of
rural producers.
The meeting will include presence from the Minister of Livestock
Development and Fisheries; Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of
Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives; development partners and
stakeholders from the public and private sectors.
RIU Tanzania Country Coordinator who is also MUVEK’s Managing
Director, Ms Vera Florida Mugittu, says that through the support from
DFID UK, RIU has been an innovation broker within the indigenous
poultry industry in Tanzania, and met the initial social cost of
building the minimum conditions necessary to initiate and sustain a
transformative innovation process without being a producer of
knowledge or its user. Playing this public role has proved very
important in unlocking potentials currently locked in sectors
dominated by subsistence producers like poultry in Tanzania.
“We will present policy briefs that that can potentially change the
outlook of the poultry industry by promoting wide-scale application of
new knowledge for development of farms, hatcheries and input
supplies,” said Ms Mugittu. According to Ms Mugittu, the available
knowledge, if put to use, it can revolutionise the subsector and go a
long way to create employment, reduce poverty and improve living
standards as well as enhance nutrition security.
Ms Rosemary Mwakitwange, who will be facilitating the event said, at
the end of the two days, the presentations made, if taken seriously
and implemented, it will see poultry industry playing a big role in
poverty reduction initiatives.
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RIU is a DFID supported action research and development program
designed to put agricultural research into use for developmental
purposes and to conduct research on how to do this. The program works
towards improved programme communication and harmonisation for
effective sharing and influencing local, national and international
policy agenda. It ensures that activities at country level are
aligned with ongoing agricultural and natural resources development
initiatives as well as relevant national and sectoral strategies in
the country. The main objective of the program in Tanzania was to
explore and facilitate ways of improving local innovation capacity for
increased use of research, new knowledge and technologies in
developing profitable agribusiness enterprises. In Tanzania, the
program is implemented by MUVEK Development Solutions Ltd.
MUVEK Development Solutions a Tanzanian development consultancy
company, that aspires to efficiently and creatively provide quality
advisory and support services to public and non-public development
actors towards planning, executing and monitoring programs focusing at
developing a more locally-owned and people cantered-profit oriented
economy.
Contacts
MUVEK Development Solutions Ltd
Managing Director, Vera Florida Mugittu
Telephone: 255-22-2700667/671
Email: admin@muvek.co.tz
Website: http://www.muvek.co.tz