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Innovation Platforms for facilitating in Livestock vaccination

Bringing farmers, vets, and institutions together to scale livestock vaccination!

Innovation Platforms (IPs) offer a scalable, system-level approach to strengthen livestock vaccination delivery by aligning public, private, and community actors around joint planning, learning, and action. They address coordination failures along the vaccine value chain, improve access to animal health services, and increase vaccination coverage, including among women livestock keepers. IPs contribute to more resilient livestock systems, stronger local institutions, and sustainable service delivery models that can be embedded in national and local development programs.

This technology is pre-validated.

9•8

Scaling readiness: idea maturity 9/9; level of use 8/9

Positive impacts: 9

Target Groups

Positive Impacts

Women in informal livestock market activities

·       Improved access to vaccination information and services.

·       Greater voice in local decision-making through IP participation and stronger links to financial services and input suppliers.

·       Better integration into local disease control efforts.

·       Improved awareness of animal health risks and biosecurity, reducing disease transmission along market chains.

Youth and young livestock entrepreneurs in remote and hard-to-reach communities

·       Better access to networks and market opportunities.

·       Improved skills through participation in coordination platforms.

·       Reduced travel time and costs to access services.

·       Improved disease prevention in underserved areas.

Pastoralists and transhumant herders from low-income and resource-constrained households

·       Improved access to vaccination points along transhumance routes.

·       Stronger communication between mobile herders and veterinary services.

·       Reduced disease risks in mobile herds.

·       Reduced indirect costs (travel, missed work).

·       Better information on vaccination benefits and improved livestock survival and productivity, supporting household food security and income.

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Climate adaptability: Highly adaptable

strengthen resilience to climate change through improvement of herd productivity resulting in increased farmer incomes and nutrition.

Farmer climate change readiness: Moderate improvement

healthy animals emit less greenhouse gas

Biodiversity: Positive impact on biodiversity

health animals will provide essential services such as pollination, and soil productivity, which are crucial for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem health.

Carbon footprint: Much less carbon released

healthy animals emit less greenhouse gas

Environmental health: Greatly improves environmental health

health animals make less waste and less spread of disease through the environment

Soil quality: Does not affect soil health and fertility

healthy animals will adopt optimum grazing which enhance soil health by recycling nutrients, enriching the soil, and providing ecosystem services such as soil stabilization and carbon sequestration.

Water use: Same amount of water used

health animals pollute water less and contribute to quality of water accessible to them for their health, growth rates, and overall productivity.

Problem

  • Low effectiveness of vaccination investments
    Limited farmer participation and weak monitoring reduce the impact of funded vaccination programs, making it harder to achieve intended health and productivity outcomes.
  • Coordination failures across the vaccine delivery system
    Weak linkages between public services, private providers, communities, and suppliers create bottlenecks in planning, information flow, and implementation.
  • Inequitable access to animal health services
    Women and smallholder farmers in remote areas are less reached by vaccination campaigns, limiting inclusive impact.
  • Persistent gaps in disease control for high-impact endemic diseases
    Low vaccination coverage against peste  des petits ruminants (PPR), Contagious Bovine 
    Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) and bovine and ovine undermines resilience, food security, and livelihoods, and increases vulnerability to shocks.

Solution

  • System-level coordination of vaccination actors
    Innovation Platforms strengthen linkages across the vaccine value chain, addressing coordination bottlenecks and improving overall system performance.
  • Improved community knowledge and behavior change
    Increased awareness of vaccination benefits drives behavior change at community level, improving program effectiveness.
  • Strengthened institutional trust and social capital
    Reinforced relationships among farmers, service providers, and authorities improve governance and service delivery outcomes.
  • Better data for planning and results measurement
    Improved livestock population estimates support better targeting, reduce vaccine wastage, and improve the efficiency of funded interventions.
  • Demonstrated impact on coverage and inclusion
    Documented increases in vaccination coverage (+8–10%) and higher participation of women demonstrate tangible results and support scaling and replication of the approach.

Key points to design your program

To embed Innovation Platforms (IPs) effectively in projects and programs, development partners should design for coordination, learning, and sustainability from the start.

  • Start with system mapping of the vaccine delivery value chain to identify coordination gaps and leverage points before project design.
  • Ensure inclusive stakeholder engagement by requiring participation of producers, private and public service providers, NGOs, financial institutions, and local leaders in IP setup.
  • Support participatory identification and prioritization of constraints so interventions respond to real operational bottlenecks faced by actors on the ground.
  • Fund facilitation, coordination, and monitoring as core project components, not only vaccines and equipment.
  • Leverage technical expertise (e.g. ILRI) to strengthen facilitation quality, documentation of results, and learning for replication and scale.

IP

Open source / open access

Scaling Readiness describes how complete a technology’s development is and its ability to be scaled. It produces a score that measures a technology’s readiness along two axes: the level of maturity of the idea itself, and the level to which the technology has been used so far.

Each axis goes from 0 to 9 where 9 is the “ready-to-scale” status. For each technology profile in the e-catalogs we have documented the scaling readiness status from evidence given by the technology providers. The e-catalogs only showcase technologies for which the scaling readiness score is at least 8 for maturity of the idea and 7 for the level of use.

The graph below represents visually the scaling readiness status for this technology, you can see the label of each level by hovering your mouse cursor on the number.

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Scaling readiness score of this technology

Maturity of the idea 9 out of 9

Uncontrolled environment: validated

Level of use 8 out of 9

Used by some intended users, in the real world

Maturity of the idea Level of use
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Positive impact 9

Target Groups

Positive Impacts

Women in informal livestock market activities

·       Improved access to vaccination information and services.

·       Greater voice in local decision-making through IP participation and stronger links to financial services and input suppliers.

·       Better integration into local disease control efforts.

·       Improved awareness of animal health risks and biosecurity, reducing disease transmission along market chains.

Youth and young livestock entrepreneurs in remote and hard-to-reach communities

·       Better access to networks and market opportunities.

·       Improved skills through participation in coordination platforms.

·       Reduced travel time and costs to access services.

·       Improved disease prevention in underserved areas.

Pastoralists and transhumant herders from low-income and resource-constrained households

·       Improved access to vaccination points along transhumance routes.

·       Stronger communication between mobile herders and veterinary services.

·       Reduced disease risks in mobile herds.

·       Reduced indirect costs (travel, missed work).

·       Better information on vaccination benefits and improved livestock survival and productivity, supporting household food security and income.

Unintended impact 8

Target Groups

Unintended Impacts

Mitigation Measures

Women in informal livestock market activities

·       Increased time burden from meetings and coordination roles;

·       Risk of token participation without real influence;

·       Potential backlash or restrictions from household or market power dynamics.

·       Schedule meetings at convenient times and locations;

·       Ensure women hold meaningful leadership roles with decision power;

·       Engage male leaders and market authorities to support women’s participation;

·       Provide safe spaces for women’s voices (e.g., women-only pre-meetings).

Youth and young livestock entrepreneurs in remote and hard-to-reach communities

·       Risk of being used mainly as unpaid mobilizers;

·       Frustration if promised business opportunities do not materialize;

·       Exclusion from decisions due to age hierarchies.

·       Define clear roles and fair incentives for youth participation;

·       Link IP engagement to concrete opportunities (training, service contracts, pilots);

·       Include youth representatives in IP leadership;

·       Provide mentorship and visibility for youth contributions.

Pastoralists and transhumant herders from low-income and resource-constrained households

·       Continued exclusion if IPs remain sedentary and meeting-based;

·       Vaccination schedules still misaligned with mobility patterns;

·       Adapt participation methods (mobile coordination, representation through pastoralist leaders);

·       Align vaccination points with transhumance routes and market days;

·       Ensure balanced representation in IP governance; frame IPs as service coordination platforms, not enforcement bodies;

·       Use trusted intermediaries for engagement.

Barriers 11

Target Groups

Barriers to adoption

Mitigation Measures

Women in informal livestock market activities

·       Limited time due to care and market work;

·       Low representation in decision-making spaces;

·       Limited access to finance and formal networks;

·       Low access to information on vaccination schedules and benefits.

·       Schedule IP meetings at convenient times and locations;

·       Set minimum targets for women’s representation in IP leadership;

·       use women’s groups and market associations for outreach;

·       link women to microfinance and input suppliers; tailor communication channels (local radio, peer educators).

Youth and young livestock entrepreneurs in remote and hard-to-reach communities

·       Limited capital and assets to engage in service delivery;

·       Weak networks and low credibility with established actors;

·       High costs of accessing markets and services due to distance;

·       Limited technical skills.

·       Provide entry points for youth in IP roles (mobilization, logistics, service support);

·       Link youth to training, mentorship, and starter finance;

·       Use IPs to connect youth to markets and service contracts;

·       Support mobile or digital outreach to reduce distance barriers.

Pastoralists and transhumant herders from low-income and resource-constrained households

·       Mobility makes it hard to attend fixed meetings and vaccination points;

·       Vaccination schedules not aligned with migration routes;

·       Low trust in formal services due to past exclusion.

·       Adapt IP participation mechanisms (mobile representatives, coordination across communes);

·       Align vaccination schedules with transhumance calendars;

·       Establish vaccination points along routes and markets; explore targeted subsidies or flexible payment options;

·       Use trusted intermediaries (pastoralist leaders, herder associations) for engagement.

Countries with a green colour
Tested & adopted
Countries with a bright green colour
Adopted
Countries with a yellow colour
Tested
Countries with a blue colour
Testing ongoing
Egypt Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burundi Burkina Faso Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Côte d’Ivoire Eritrea Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Cameroon Kenya Libya Liberia Madagascar Mali Malawi Morocco Mauritania Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo Rwanda Zambia Senegal Sierra Leone Zimbabwe Somalia South Sudan Sudan South Africa Eswatini Tanzania Togo Tunisia Chad Uganda Western Sahara Central African Republic Lesotho
Countries where the technology is being tested or has been tested and adopted
Country Testing ongoing Tested Adopted
Mali No ongoing testing Not tested Adopted

This technology can be used in the colored agro-ecological zones. Any zones shown in white are not suitable for this technology.

Agro-ecological zones where this technology can be used
AEZ Subtropic - warm Subtropic - cool Tropic - warm Tropic - cool
Arid
Semiarid
Subhumid
Humid

Source: HarvestChoice/IFPRI 2009

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals that are applicable to this technology.

Sustainable Development Goal 2: zero hunger
Goal 2: zero hunger

Improves livestock health and productivity through higher vaccination coverage, increasing the availability of animal-source foods and strengthening food security.

Sustainable Development Goal 3: good health and well-being
Goal 3: good health and well-being

Strengthens animal health service delivery and disease prevention systems, reducing the burden of endemic livestock diseases.

Sustainable Development Goal 5: gender equality
Goal 5: gender equality

Increases women’s participation in vaccination programs and local decision-making, improving their access to animal health services and economic opportunities.

Sustainable Development Goal 17: partnerships for the goals
Goal 17: partnerships for the goals

Builds effective public–private–community partnerships to plan and deliver livestock vaccination at scale.

Step-by-Step: How to Set Up and Run Innovation Platforms (IPs)

Step 1 – Select the territory (commune)
Choose a commune (urban or rural) as the coordination unit, covering several villages.

Step 2 – Map key actors
Identify all actors in the livestock vaccination system:
farmers, private veterinarians, vaccine suppliers, public veterinary services, traders, processors, financial institutions, NGOs, community leaders.

Step 3 – Organize a 2-day setup workshop
Hold a 2-day workshop in each commune to:

  • bring all actors together,
  • agree on common vaccination challenges,
  • create the Innovation Platform.

Step 4 – Form the IP steering committee
Elect a small leadership team: coordinator, secretary, treasurer, communication lead.
Ensure women are represented (at least two leadership positions).

Step 5 – Train IP leaders and facilitators
Train steering committee members on governance, leadership, and coordination.
Train local facilitators to run meetings and support dialogue between actors.

Step 6 – Plan joint actions
Develop a simple work plan for vaccination campaigns:
roles, timelines, community mobilization, logistics, and follow-up.

Step 7 – Hold regular coordination meetings
Meet regularly (about once per month) to:
review progress, solve problems, and adjust plans.

Step 8 – Build capacities continuously
Provide ongoing training to IP members on:
vaccination planning, community engagement, data collection, and coordination.

Step 9 – Monitor and document results
Record meetings, activities, and vaccination outcomes.
Collect basic data on participation and coverage.

Step 10 – Review and improve annually
Hold an annual planning and review workshop with all actors to:
share results, identify gaps, and update the action plan for the next year.

Last updated on 11 March 2026