Advocacy

Date	29 June- 1 July 2011
Type	Donor investment
Lead agency influenced	2011 International Forum for Research Donors
Policy area	Systems approaches to innovation brokerage
RIU involvement	Presentation at conference with Rasheed S and Kerry Albright of DFID
Link to RIU work programme	Shared the design of the RIU Africa Country Programmes and the impact of innovation platforms on empowering people from vulnerable groups

Date	March 2011
Type	Policy and investment
Lead agency influenced	President of Tanzania sent a filmed message to DFID
Policy area	Poultry keeping
RIU involvement	Briefed president about the model- and RIUtv filmed him advocating the approach
Link to RIU work programme	Poultry enterprise

Date	2009
Type	Policy
Lead agency influenced	Government of Tanzania
Policy area	Zero rating milk and milk products - use of common external tariff
RIU involvement	Facilitated systems analysis and unity of stakeholders
Link to RIU work programme	Dairy Platform

Date	2009
Type	Policy
Lead agency influenced	Mechanisation Unit, Tanzania Bureau of Standards
Policy area	Quality control standards for imported farm machinery
RIU involvement	Organised national stakeholder meeting on mechanisation
Link to RIU work programme	Mechanisation Platform

Date	2009
Type	Practice
Policy area	The use of Livestock Certificate Holders for provision of household advisory services
Evidence of change	20 household advisors are working with farmers in five districts in Coast region to provide advice on poultry rearing
RIU involvement	Identification, facilitation, funding, monitoring and quality control of services
Link to RIU work programme	Solution to challenges in poor provision and reliability of government extension and advisory services in poultry platform

Date	2009
Type	Practice
Policy area	Bundling of demands for buying tractor services at affordable rates
Evidence of change	Farmers in four districts in Morogoro region have bundled their ploughing demands and hired tractor services collectively
RIU involvement	Mobilisation, facilitation, funding meetings, monitoring
Link to RIU work programme	Solution to the demand - supply deadlock in mechanisation platform

Date	2009
Type	Practice
Policy area	Formation of tractor owner unions in Ulanga, Kilombero, Mvomero and Kilosa districts
Evidence of change	More than 4 tractor owners unions have been formed in four districts in Morogoro region
RIU involvement	Inefficiency and lack of networking among service providers in mechanisation platform
Link to RIU work programme	Facilitation, funding meetings

Date	2009
Type	Practice
Policy area	Direct relationships between farmers and tractor owners that never existed before
Evidence of change	Farmers and tractor owners are directly negotiating prices, and working conditions in their local area
RIU involvement	Facilitating first linkages through first village mobilisation meetings
Link to RIU work programme	RIU mobilisation to link stakeholders