Value-Chain Mentorship (#1)

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by David McGill1 view·Updated Nov 16, 2021
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  1. Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is David McGill.
  2. I work for the University of Melbourne and I'm the
  3. project leader on the dairy beef project that we're running
  4. in collaboration with the University of Veterinary animal Sciences in
  5. Lahore. I know that tomorrow is there with you today
  6. and Kiss it and some of our other team members
  7. and they're going to be running this mentorship program with
  8. you over the next six months and we'd all like
  9. to welcome you to the first part of that training
  10. program. To the 1st, 1st iteration of that training program.
  11. Yeah, it's gonna be a great program and I'm going
  12. to tell you a little bit about the objectives today.
  13. The first one that the team are trying to do
  14. in this first step of the mentorship program is to
  15. expose you the farm advisors to the beef value chains.
  16. VC means value chains, there, expose you to the beef
  17. value chain activities which takes us from the plate, the
  18. consumer to the paddock.
  19. No kids are in.
  20. The team will be explaining that a lot in the
  21. next couple of days and that's to really understand about
  22. building your understanding about walking the chain, like following that
  23. product through the different value chain actors.
  24. The second objective is to facilitate farm advisors.
  25. Again, that's you under to understand the role of the
  26. different individuals, different actors along that value chain.
  27. Okay, and so that includes the farmer, it includes the
  28. consumer, includes other people in the middle, like whether they're
  29. involved in transport etcetera, etcetera.
  30. So that's the second objective that we're going to work
  31. on that this workshop.
  32. The next objective is to facilitate farm advisors to compare
  33. some of the different selling options that they might see
  34. along that value chain.
  35. You know, that might be like selling into larger markets
  36. or maybe it's selling to a different level of the
  37. supply chain if you can.
  38. Yeah, so that's the third objective.
  39. And the fourth objective is to do is to really
  40. develop your capacity like your understanding as farm advisors to
  41. conduct your own value chain analysis.
  42. That V.
  43. C. A.
  44. There means value chain analysis uh and that's really to
  45. help you to identify opportunities.
  46. The ops for opportunities for smallholder farmers or medium sized
  47. farmers, but our focus is always usually smallholders.
  48. And the third one is to link those smallholders to
  49. either together or two different people in that value chain
  50. so that they can take those opportunities.
  51. Okay, so hopefully that's clear if not you can get
  52. kids or or or tomorrow one of the team to
  53. translate for you what those objectives are, but I think
  54. it's really important to understand what they are so that
  55. you can really kind of approach this mentorship program and
  56. training over the next couple of day next couple of
  57. days, so you can use the information for you or
  58. for your project.
  59. Yeah, so to me it's about when you're trying to
  60. learn something new or something complex or something difficult.
  61. It's really important to be consistent um you know, and
  62. do things a few times, have a few iterations, what
  63. we say, so that that we would say here having
  64. a couple of different training training objectives or a couple
  65. of different training options for you guys.
  66. So we mean consistency.
  67. We mean we're going to do three or four different
  68. mentorship programs meetings where you guys come and learn with
  69. our team and then it's up to you guys to
  70. go and implement that, integrate that into your projects or
  71. into your role across the next six months.
  72. And then if you've got any problems or if you
  73. have any questions or successes, you can come back at
  74. the next time you interact with us or that team
  75. and you can tell us how it's gone or if
  76. the problems that you might have had and then we
  77. can all share and learn together in that process.
  78. Yeah, so but another part of this is to have
  79. fun because if you're having fun and getting involved, getting
  80. involved in the activities and being challenged when you're out
  81. in the field with the team, you're really going to
  82. be able to learn from the experience much better and
  83. to learn from each other.
  84. So the more you develop the relationships with those around
  85. you, whether they be new friends from your organization or
  86. new friends from a different organization, that's a really important
  87. network now that you've got not only with our team
  88. but with the other farm advisors around you.
  89. Yeah. And uh, something that I always think about when
  90. I'm going to a new training or a new a
  91. new a new workshop, for example, is I'd like to
  92. think how does this training help me?
  93. Yeah. So how does it help me in um, as
  94. an individual in my job or how does it help
  95. me working within my project or maybe how does it
  96. help me working in my organization?
  97. You know, my job at the moment is working with
  98. the University of Melbourne in this product dairy beef project.
  99. And there's a lot of things that I think you
  100. all can learn about the value chain, uh, and the
  101. different actors in it and the opportunities that we might
  102. get from smallholders.
  103. So we hope that you find it useful and we
  104. hope that you find it useful for your job and
  105. your or your projects you work on.
  106. So, good luck, everybody.
  107. And hopefully you can learn a lot from Kizza and
  108. Humira and the team and from each other.
  109. Thanks very much.
  110. Bye.