Network of labs
Fully operated by the regional research institutes in Ethiopia and providing a wide range of reproductive techniques and biotechnologies, the network of labs forming the reproductive platform, provides support to the implementation of the sheep and goat breeding programs in Ethiopia simultaneously to a number of services intended to improve the reproductive management for higher productivity. Initial co-investment by the regional research institutes in Ethiopia and ICARDA resulted in the latter upgrading the capacity level of the regional staff and supplying the labs with the required equipment and supplies to function autonomously.
- Investment and involvement by the national institutions and ICARDA
- The scaling of the breeding programs to new communities and villages generated a new demand in terms of reproductive technologies for a wider dissemination of improved sires
- Adoption by the national actors of community-based breeding programs to develop the sector of small ruminants
- Contextualized approaches from a technical and institutional angle to establish the reproductive labs and the services provided
- Developed technologies are mainly based upon locally available supplies and equipment for the business model to be replicated with a minimum external support