 I would like to recognize all of you as our stakeholders and thank you all for for working with us through all this long journey from 2012 up to now. There will be a session we'll be talking a lot more about partnerships. I want to particularly recognize and thank Isabel for finding time to be with us today and make some remarks. I also want to single out Juliet Centoon. We're from MAIF. Juliet has been really our key and strong supporter of the MOPOC project in Uganda and I'd like to just single you out and say thank you very much and also for making time to come here. Next slide please Peter. Now this presentation we will make it jointly together with Emily. So it will be an interactive presentation and we did that deliberately to pull out experiences that both Emily and I have. I was very strongly involved in the MOPOC one the first phase of the of this project and I took over in the second face of this project. So combined experiences are very important and we thought we could pull them out if we jointly talked about this. The project goal you see there is for MOPOC too to improve incomes of pig body chain actors through market arrangement and sustainable integrated technology packages in Uganda. But we will be from time to time reflecting on objectives from phase one and discussing how that has shaped our work today. Next slide. Emily please. Hello and good afternoon everybody. I'll just switch on my camera a bit so that you can see me. Right. Okay. So I'll start by reflecting backwards what the journey has been where we started. And then over time will bring us all up to speed where we are at now. So, well I joined in 2012 in the pig value chain in Uganda, but officially the pig value chain project MOPOC one really started in 2011. It's a group of people from Ilri from, I don't know if there's anyone from Seattle, but from the livestock CRP who had a scoping mission to Uganda and visited several partners. I think some of the sites where they went like you massacre district they met Lawrence Mayega there. And Mukono met David Kiriaburi among others. So, 2011 we started with a neglected sector, a sector where not much was going on in terms of pig research. And a sector where there was no much policy focus. And that demand for pork in Uganda was on the rise, and that fueled an increase in pig population so we have a graph on the right hand side there. So we see the pig population keeps rising and this is mainly in response to to the demand for pork. So, though that was happening, we had pig value chain actors and stakeholders in the sector who lacked voice, they could not advocate for the sector there was no space for them to advocate for the sector partly because of lack of evidence, and also a proper platform where they could bring forward their issue. So in 2012, this 2011 actually CRP livestock started implementing the more pork project. So in phase one, the initial activities included the first one was really site selection. So remember we came down to your districts or the different sites with Danilo with Michelle, you know, trying to pin down the specific locations where the more pork project would focus. So after identifying a few districts and of course also involving stakeholders in that identification of the sites. We started with diagnostic studies and these diagnostic studies are mainly to identify the constraints and opportunities in the pork value chains. That was followed by pilot testing of various interventions to address the constraints that were identified. So during more pork one year we're also very busy building partnerships with different types of partners, the academia, development partners, we tried a bit also with the private sector. Next slide please. So that was more pork one. So for more pork two, we reflected back on the learnings that we got from more pork one and realize that it's important to have an integrated intervention reintegrated project that was bringing different elements together. So for more pork to the entry point was really the market level in more pork one we focused quite a lot on the producer nod of the value chain so we were really looking and addressing a pig farmers constraints. But then we realized that if we don't also address the constraints in the other nodes of the value chain they're not much can be achieved. So our entry point in more pork two has then been the the the the market, the market point. And this is because it, it forms a very strong business case, both for producers as well as the aggregators. So in more pork two, the strength is more around as strengthening the linkages between the market actors who are the aggregators with the pig producer so that there's better relationship. So there is some kind of agreement on what type of products the farmers should be delivering to the aggregators and how best aggregators can also support the farmers in order to deliver the type of products of pigs that they're looking for as aggregators. So they're following a market systems development approach in that regard, and we have ultimate business strategies who are really supporting us on that as that's their strength. So in more pork two, again, a lot of stress is on the private sector partnership so we are engaging lots and lots of private sector players, mainly because of purposes of sustainability and ownership. So on one end we have the market pool through the entry point of the market but on the other end also we have technology push through what we call a pig smart platform. So the pig smart platform is an ecosystem that brings together different digital digital service providers. One element that's quite interesting in this regard is the digital extension that pulls together various elements that are key. So we have feeds, we have health, we have genetics and environment, all being packaged in one and being pushed out to the farmers. So both are market pool as well as a push through the pig smart platform to enable farmers to take up some of the interventions. Next slide. So Ben is going to tell us a little bit about the districts where we've been working. Over to you. Emily. So in more pork one, the phase one, we couldn't obviously work everywhere in Uganda so we had to focus to some areas in Uganda where we thought had the highest potential for us to improve and make impact in the pig value chain. So in the phase one, we worked in Masaka, Mukono and Kamuli in the phase that was funded by the IFAD funding. And in phase two, we got further funding from the Irish aid project and we expanded our research sites to Lyra and Hoima districts. So we were working in five districts. So when we expanded our work again, as Emily just explained to more pork two, we added two more districts, PG and Waqiso, although we have some elements of research that is also covering Kampala as a district, particularly research work that is involving input and service providers. So these are the areas that we have intervened in over the last 10 years. Next. Next. Emily, please. Right. Okay, so this next beat will focus more around the achievements that we've made from more pork one going through to more pork two. So as I mentioned earlier, the pig value chain was more less like a neglected value chain and sector. But more and more, we are seeing more visibility. Yeah, as the value chain gets better and better understood. So for instance, the pork sector is now becoming more visible on the national agenda. So the program has identified several policy gaps and catalyzed government interest in filling those gaps. So we have a key partner from the office of the Prime Minister, Mr. Julia Sokello, who's here with us, and he's, he has helped us to shape some of this policy gaps so that we can package them neatly and present them to government, you know, so that there could be further discussions on how those gaps could be filled. Another big achievement is the involvement of of partners, different partners, yeah, working in collaboration with the project researchers to package the different interventions and also to implement those interventions. So there's this has catalyzed ownership by the various partners. And even if we are not there, several partners would talk about more pork and the elements and what they're doing in terms of the interventions. So these interventions have also included evidence based training and capacity building. So on the right hand side there is just an excerpt from one of our partner, PPM, pig production and marketing. I'm told, these days, the name has changed a bit, but in more pork one PPM was heavily involved in capacity development of pig value chain actors and scaling of interventions, particularly using our tested and proven interventions. The other big achievement around here is that now there's a better understanding of the constraints in the value chain, the opportunities and the best bet what can work to improve the value chain. So when we started and we were trying to look for literature around pig value chain in Uganda. There was no nothing much. But now if you even go into Google and just type in keywords like pig value in Uganda, there's lots and lots of materials. So we have scientific papers in peer review journals. We have research reports blog articles, fact sheets, videos, etc. So there's lots and lots of resources around the pig value chain. So I had started by saying that stakeholders in the sector didn't have a voice. So we are very happy now that at least there is a platform that brings together different stakeholders including the value chain actors themselves. So this is in the form of its alliances in the form of multi stakeholder pig platforms. So in Mopok 1 through partnership with SNV, we catalyzed development of five regional platforms and one national platform. So in this platform, there was lots of conversation going on around actions that can be taken to improve the sector. So some of the regional platforms are still active. Some are not so active, but we are happy that the conversation is going on. So through these alliances or multi stakeholder platform, there was formation of three cooperatives, one large cooperative that brings together farmers from central region. Another one in Greater Massacre that pulls together different cooperatives. It's a secondary cooperative. It's the Greater Massacre Pig Cooperative Union. Then we also have aggregators who formed their own association in Massacre called the Massacre Pig aggregators association. So we are very pleased that through the MSP several other things have a reason. Next slide please. So in the next slide, Ben is going to tell us a little bit about achievements around integration over to you. Yeah, thanks, Emily. In Mopok 2, we aimed to integrate more of the way we deliver our research to the end users. And one of the things we did was to set up a pig smart platform, which is an integrated platform of digital solution providers with the aim of strengthening pig farmers productivity, both on farm and across the value chain. We have three key service solution providers who are also with us in this meeting. I will summarize a bit about some of the solutions that we managed to deliver through the pig smart platforms, but they will be expanding a lot on these solutions through some of the posters that we will be viewing this afternoon. And one of them is the feed feed calculator application provided by single spark Netherlands initially but now we have the Uganda single spark Uganda. It's a mobile app that is used to to formulate simple rations, both for farmers and also commercial feed producers using the available feed resources. Through this we have trained village agents who are based within villages where the farmers are based so that they can continually offer support to the farmers on the ground. We also trained the technical extension officer who are based in various districts with the aim of ensuring that this extension people will continue to support the small scale commercial feed producers to compound high, high quality commercial pigs. We have reached a thousand four hundred and forty pig farmers who have used this feed feed calculator. The second solution provider is the Agri Tech Talk Africa, who have a gross margin tool. This is a tool that helps farmers to look at the cost of production of their pig industry, I mean the pig enterprises at farm level and determine how those pig enterprises are operating or performing economically. And this is a tool which has been delivered to hundred and forty four farmers in Masaka and probably almost a close similar number in Mucono. We couldn't immediately get the exact figures there. But the key thing there is we have trained the village agents also working with the farmers to calculate the farm input and output costs and discuss with them how and where to reduce the cost of their pig enterprises to improve profitability at farm level. The other key service provider is the Ezy Greek or a Korean company, which have a knowledge hub and an e-commerce platform. And this through this platform, we provide village agents with input and product demand reports and we also train farmers on the integrated packages of feeds, health genetics, heat stress, manual management, etc. And we have rolled this out to 225 farmers and we have produced 21 audio and five minute videos, which are being used to train farmers. As I said, you will hear a little bit more about this. We have a post on each of these solutions that you will be discussing later on. The next slide is busy, but we think that it is very important and I'll take a little bit of time to explain to you our training and participation to improve relations and build people's capacity within the pig value chain. As Erie, we have built capacity of our stakeholders through, we have built capacity through partners and we do not do that directly as Erie. And we have focused our capacity building efforts to input and service provider to pig producers and to pig buyers whom we mostly popularly call aggregators. And we have done that in various areas of our interventions. We have set up a community based AI scheme with farmers and we have collaborated with Bedline and McHenry University on this. We have trained over 300 small scale pig farmers, 200 and reached 244 households in two districts only. And we have insomniated about 290 pigs and 138 of them have been confirmed pregnant. And we have registered 52 litres born to date with an average of 18 piglets. The next area we have looked at is the biosecurity area to control African swine fever. All of you know African swine fever is a problem in Uganda. And we developed a biosecurity manual with local vets focusing on African swine flu and parasites and tested it, tested that manual with a thousand farmers in central and northern Uganda. The manual has been shared with DVOs in our project sites and it's being used at the moment. The other area we have worked in is a holistic, hard health approach where we worked with Swedish University, SLU, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and we trained five vets in Sweden who have since come back and are running courses for various extension staff, both private and public officers. They have held a workshop with 22 farmers and veterinary officers consultants and farmers and various farmers to validate research outputs and carry out various types of training. In the other area we have worked in is the market arrangements for pig keepers. As Emily explained our focus is to improve the market end of the value chain to create a pool for investment in the productivity node of the value chain. And we worked with ultimate business strategies and we've been working with 70 pig buyers to facilitate conversation between the buyers and the farmers, including training of the local government staff, who will champion this approach into the future. And we have also involved 30 buyers in continuing conversations with farmers. The other area we have intervened in and did significant amount of training is the, we piloted a training and certification schemes for small scale feed producers to improve the quality of the feed reaching out to the farmers. And we have trained 87 feed producers. We, we have also trained 40 feed mailers on the, through the pig smart on the feed calculator, and we are continuing to mentor almost 50 feed mailers on good manufacturing practices of livestock feed. And finally, we, we also have trained 30 Ugandan women and youth in climate change, climate resilience and water sustainability, including methods for helping pigs with heat stress. And this is just addressing issues around climate change. Then across, we have been training 30 and women and 30 youth in business development and managing and management, giving them skills on how to improve their business skills both input and service providers, as well as the pig buyers. Next, please. Peter. Right. Okay. So, we've also drawn a lot of lessons from Mokwok one and Mokwok two, particularly around strategies for increasing the chances of delivering impact at scale. One big one is the involvement of the private sector in designing interventions and in some cases even implementing the interventions. So that has been key. And the second one is around scaling assessments. So considering Alion at the start, how these interventions could be scaled up. So considering early partnerships with both local and central government so that's very key. It's impossible to work in the districts without involvement of of the local government in the districts on one hand, and on the other hand also involvement of the central government, you know, bodies like Maif, even ministry of water and environment. So that has been key. So learning is the importance of linking value chain actors with financial services to help their businesses grow. So many times we take it for granted that as long as the technologies are there, that things will just happen. No, there are other supportive services like financing that is critical for value chain actors. We can't say that we've been able to do that properly in Mokwok one or Mokwok two, but it's a learning. So moving forward, that's something that we need to take in our stride. The other one is around identifying the policies and legal frameworks that can further support the big value chain. So the technologies may be there, but as long as the enabling environment has gaps, then we can't achieve much particularly in terms of also scaling, scaling our interventions. So identifying the right people in government to work with in order to drive policy change, because people have different passion. So it's important to identify the champions who can support us to drive policy change. So those are the key lessons from the project. Right. So in this slide we have several partners. We've listed several partners we've worked with in Mokwok one and also in Mokwok two. So many times we would just display this and let each partner look for their names in there. So today we want to make a deliberate effort to mention each partner by name. And under normal circumstances, this is where we'd be having our relations, but unfortunately we can't relate because it would be disturbing other people. I want to recognize the partners who we've worked with in Mokwok one from the public sector. We've worked with the Ma'if. We worked with NADS when NADS was still on the ground. We've worked with the district local governments of Kamuli, Mukono, Masaka, Hoima and Lira, as well as KCCA. We don't take you for granted. Thank you very much. We've worked with the research education institutions, including NARO. Sorry, please mute if you're not speaking. Thank you. We've worked with NARO. We've worked with Naliri. We've worked with Makere University, particularly three colleges. We've also worked with the SLU in phase one as well as phase two. We've worked with Gulu University. We've worked with Nagrik and Dibi. So thank you very much that category. We also worked with the number of NGOs. When we started in phase one, Vedco was very key in Kamuli. So they were one of our key partners, particularly in the eastern part of Uganda. We've worked with SNV. We've worked with veterinarians without borders. We've worked with Enterprise Uganda, both in phase one and phase two. We've worked with Iowa State University Uganda program. So that's an NGO that Iowa State has registered here in Uganda, and particularly working in eastern Uganda. We've worked with several private sector players in Mopokwan. We've worked with BRAC. We've worked with PPM. We've worked with Agri-Empowerment Center, Union of Pig Cooperatives of Greater Masaka. We've worked with Wambizi Cooperative. We've worked with Greenfields Uganda Limited. We've worked with Ogre Farms, particularly focusing on indigenous microorganisms. We've worked with Devenish Nutrition. So to all the partners whom we've worked with in Mopokwan, a very big thank you. I hand over to Ben to acknowledge partners we've been working with in Mopok too. Yeah, thanks Emily. As Emily said, unlike in the past where we have flushed this slide and passed over it quickly, we want to particularly acknowledge all of you and who have worked with us. And I'm sure all of you belong to one of these partners we've listed here. In Mopok too, I would like to say that we have had big support from the office of the Prime Minister and Dr. Julius Okelo is with us here today. Julius, thank you very much for the support you have given us and taking time to even attend some of the workshops that we have held under Mopok too on the heat stress work. We have the Chief Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries. I mentioned again, Juliet is here with her team from MAIF, quite a number of them are here. Thank you very much for your continued support, all along from phase one into this phase two. We expanded really our work and strengthened our collaboration with the Ministry of Water and Environment, particularly on our climate change and heat stress work which Julius was also involved in. Our district local governments have continued to support us very, very much, Mokonomasa, Kampiji, Wakiso, the Kampala Capital City Council Authority, and also the National Bureau of Standards, who are also a new collaborator who came on board in phase two. In the research and education institutions, Naleri has continued to strongly support us in the pay value chain, Macarena University, across various interventions, feeds animal health genetics, Macarena has featured in all those. Gulu University has featured in our feeds intervention, and Nagrekan DB has supported our community AI scheme that we are currently setting up. SNV have continued to move along with us all along and Enterprise Uganda who are very, very active in the business area of training and we appreciate the work that you have done in more POP2. If you, as Emily pointed out, we focused a lot on the private sector in the more and more POP2 and we had several actors there, stakeholders, who are working on the community AI scheme, Singospat, Uganda, I talked about it, again, a Korean, a great tech talk, ultimate business strategies, Robert Katende is here with us. We have several feed mailers. I say it up to 87 of them, we work together. Massacre Pig Aggregate Association, Great Massacre Cooperative Union, Animal Farm Investment in Mokono, Mokono Animal Farm Investment. This is also a private sector actor who has supported us a lot in more POP2. Next slide, I believe, coming to the last slides there. Right, just to remind us, the composition of more POP2, apart from our partners that we've mentioned. So, more POP2 is, of course, under the Livestock CJI research program, which is led by International Livestock Research Institute and implemented in partnership with the Alliance of Biodiversity International and SEAT, at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, commonly known as SLU, at the Royal Tropical Institute, abbreviated as KIT. So, these are the partners who are leading MOPOK. So, this program builds on 10 years of Livestock research for development and integrates interventions from five Livestock CRP flagships as well as cross cutting themes. So, we have Livestock genetics flagship, Livestock health flagship, Livestock feeds and forages flagship, Livestock and environments, and Livestock livelihoods and agri-food systems. Cross cutting, we have gender as well as capacity development. So, that's the project team and there are several names within each of those boxes that are working together to make MOPOK 2 a success. Thank you. Next slide. So, just to remind you of the funding, we want to thank very much the people who have funded this 10-year research on the pig belly chain in Uganda. The MOPOK 1 project was funded by European Commission and IFAD 2011 to 2013. And then after that, we got additional funding from the Irish aid from 2014 to 2017, making up the MOPOK 1. MOPOK 2 was funded by the Livestock CGIR research program from 2019 to 2021 this year and it's coming to an end at the end of this year, 31st January. Next, we had also some other bilateral contributing projects that we thought we could mention. The SAVE Food Fair Food project funded by GIZ, F1H, this is a CGIR program from 2012 to 2015. We also had another project called MPIG using mobile SMS learning for pigs and innovating information through the mobile phones. Funded by IRI and GIZ, 2015 to 2016. And lastly, in MOPOK 2, we had a project on Uganda pig genetics project funded by Austrian Development Agency from 2017 to 2021. We'd like to thank all these donors for providing their funds to support the pig belly chain work in Uganda. Next.