Site+selection

How the sites for innovation platforms been selected (control sites)?

Background to selection of Tanzania & Uttarakhand (IFAD - dairy production/marketing - development experiences) ?

=District selection= //Maybe it is possible to have consistent documents for both Tanzania and Uttarakhand at each selection level.//

Tanzania
A baseline survey was conducted in September for selection of villages. Please see the raw detailed data of the visited 25 villages in each of the four districts below

The highlighted were the columns that we think will be helpful for our selection (See in the second Detailed site selection file above). An evolving procedure to identify sites where dairy intensification might be successful.

--> and a couple of reviewed versions below



Uttarakhand
The documentation of decisions along the process of selecting districts and partners Uttarakhand in its latest version.

(13/06/2012)

and some district-level data (02/11/2011)

=Sub-district selection=

Uttarakhand
The documentation of decisions along the process of selecting sub-districts (blocks) Uttarakhand in its latest version. (13/06/2012)

and the block-level data supporting block selection

(05/06/2012)

=Village domain (max-cluster) selection=

Uttarakhand
Within the selected sub-districts (blocks) it would have not been possible to select villages from the total list of villages. Partners needed some link for being able to quickly set up village activities. Therefore, partners first identified villages in village domains (max-clusters) where they were confident that they would be able to work efficiently. In Almora INHERE identified 42 villages while CHIRAG identified 39 villages in Bageshwar. The village census questionnaire was applied to all these villages (see Village census for details).

=Activity site (mid-cluster) selection=

Uttarakhand
Because the definition of "village" is difficult in this area (a village can contain several settlements or only consist of a handful of households), settlements included in the village census were directly grouped (where appropriate) into mini-clusters (2-4 neighboring villages/settlements which can easily collaborate). Where possible, these mini-clusters were then grouped into mid-clusters (2-4 mini-clusters) which would be a suitable activity area for a field worker and could form the basis of a feed innovation platform. In Sult block (Almora), 5 mid-clusters were identified by INHERE. In addition, 2 mid-clusters were identified in the neighbouring Bhikiyasain block (Almora), which could be used for control data collection. In Bageshwar block (Bageshwar), 7 mid-clusters were identified by CHIRAG.

The mini-clusters and mid-clusters as well as the settlements they include are shown in this.kmz file (Google Earth), listed on the Village census page:

And here are some descriptions of these mid-clusters based on the village census data for selecting two each from Sult and Bageshwar (Bhikiyasain is just kept for the controls).

(11/09/2012)

The idea is to select two mid-clusters each from the two selected blocks. One of them should have a fairly favourable milk marketing situation (mainly indicated by formal marketing channels) and the other should be less well integrated. However, a minimum of accessibility should be ensured. Each mid-cluster should form a feed innovation platform.

Here is a combined document outlining the selection of max-clusters, comparing the identified mid-clusters and documenting the selection of mid-clusters for establishing innovation platforms:

(02/11/2012)

A milk marketing platform should be formed at each selected block with contributions from both feed innovation platforms there.

Extension of new cluster in Bageshwar- Joshigaon cluster included, the document on why this cluster is included: