The Netherlands East Africa Dairy Partnership (NEADAP), which started in 2018, provides a platform to exchange knowledge and experience to tackle current challenges and leverage further development in East African dairy. In its first phase, NEADAP organized Knowledge exchange, learning and documentation around animal fodder, milk quality and inclusive dairy business.
The Netherlands East Africa Dairy Partnership (NEADAP) continues to strengthen the cooperation between the Netherlands and East Africa in the dairy sector. In its first phase, NEADAP focused on knowledge exchange, learning, and documentation around animal fodder, milk quality, and inclusive dairy business.
In 2023, NEADAP is shifting its focus to testing and adaptive scaling of these solutions and other proven approaches and technologies. NEADAP is developing 11 solutions, each with a lead and a small multidisciplinary team working on the development, packaging, and scaling of the solution.
NEADAP partners offer training and advisory services and high-quality training and extension material, with outreach activities including a monthly newsletter, publications, webinars, and live events introducing the solutions. The shared ambition of NEADAP is to make dairy a valuable component in the transformation to sustainable food systems, and the network around NEADAP, including strong working relationships with farmers' organizations, service providers, processors, and dairy authorities, is fundamental to achieving this goal.
Authors
Marco Streng
Regional coordinator East Africa NEADAP
Alex Mounde
Communication officer NEADAP
Wim Goris
coalition builder
