Bridging the gap - dialogue between rural livestock owners and animal health researchers in East Africa (BTG). (360G-Wellcome-081103_Z_06_Z)

£116,440

The overall goal of the Bridging the Gap project is to develop and test an innovative model of dialogue and learning between rural livestock owners and animal health researchers to improve animal health research, making it more demand driven, dynamic, inclusive and relevant to rural livestock owners in East Africa. The primary target audiences will be pastoralists, smallholder livestock keepers, community based animal health workers (CAHWs) and animal health researchers in the four project countries. Influential policy makers will be a secondary target group. Objectives: To build an innovative and practical dialogue and learning process between livestock owners and animal health researchers in each of four East African countries. To promote animal health research which responds to the needs of rural livestock owners and encourages their participation in the gathering and analysis of research data. To promote knowledge transfer and uptake of newly emerging technologies from animal health research to rural livestock owners in a format that is accessible and appropriate at the grassroot level. To build the capacity of CAHWs and livestock owners to articulate their needs and represent their views to academic researchers and others. To document and disseminate the best practice of this dialogue and learning model with other stakeholders. To establish reasons why researchers do not have or maintain contact with livestock keepers. The objectives will be met by collating new and refining existing information from partner organisations as well as generating information from the grassroot target groups. This will be packaged into MP3 video podcast format for dissemination. FARM-Africa staff working within the Community Animal Health Network (CAHNET) and Training and Advisory Unit (TAU) programmes will be in the forefront to implement the project. CAHNET will take a co-ordinating role and together with the country TAUs collect, package and disseminate the information using various target audience forums like focal farmer/CAHWs groups and researcher/policy makers workshops.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 116440
Applicant Surname Altshul
Approval Committee Public Engagement Strategy Committee
Award Date 2006-08-18T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2005/06
Grant Programme: Title Project funding: Inactive scheme
Internal ID 081103/Z/06/Z
Lead Applicant Ms Helen Altshul
Partnership Value 116440
Planned Dates: End Date 2008-09-30T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2006-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country Kenya
Region International