NEADAP Dairy in East Africa

The Netherlands East African Dairy Partnership (NEADAP) ran between 2021 and 2024. It offered a platform for exchange of knowledge and experience to tackle current challenges and leverage further development in East African dairy. NEADAP core partners were Agriterra, SNV, Solidaridad, Wageningen UR, Kenya dairy board, Bles Dairies, Yoba for Life, ProDairy, AERES, Rwanda RNDP, CIAT, DDA Uganda, ILRI and NFP. Each partners connected knowledge, expertise, networks, local partners and projects in East Africa to the NEADAP agenda for dairy development. NEADAP worked mainly in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda and engaged also with dairy stakeholders in Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.

NEADAP was focusing on the following themes and solutions.

Healthy diets for vulnerable consumers
Milk safety and value chain collaboration
Self-sustaining extensions services
Sustainable dairy farming systems
Young dairy professionals

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Community leads

Alex Mounde

Communication officer NEADAP

Wim Goris

partnership builder

How it started

NEADAP partners are inspired by the position paper "Dairy for nutrition, employment and sustainability" (Andeweg and many others, 2020) which presents an action agenda for Dutch dairy development support in African and Asian countries. The contributors to this paper represent all facets of the Dutch Diamond, working in the private sector, knowledge institutions, civil society organisations and government. The paper is based on their extensive knowledge of and experience. The action agenda presented in this paper aims to contribute to three objectives: