Overall Objectives

The Overal Objectives are:-

To contribute to poverty alleviation and income security of smallholders and disadvantaged actors through building institutional capacity and self-organization, enabling them to become partners in coordinated dairy value chain (DVC) management.

To contribute to the diffusion of the value chain (VC) approach and advance dairy development in Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana.

To contribute to enhancing policies for the dairy sector and facilitate the involvement of smallholders.

To contribute to enhance qualification and problem-solving skills of students/graduates to cope with changing requirements in their future jobs as actors in the dairy sector.

To contribute to increasing focus of academic programmes on needs of the labour market, entrepreneurship, gender equality and poverty alleviation.

To contribute to adaptation of curricula to changing labour market requirements in the DVC, involving interdisciplinary and competence and outcome based learning (COBOL) and functioning HEI-labour market networks.

To contribute to a African-European academic partneship network for further education and research on DVC.

To contribute to development of expert knowledge on DVC

To contribute to upgrading the knowledge and didactic skills of academic staff enabling them to review, develop and maintain curricula in DVC, to integrate COBL and manage interdisciplinary research and education processes.

To contribute to internationalisation of education and reaserch in DVC.

Specific Objective

Capacity of HEI in Eastern and Western Africa is strengthened to deliver competent graduates for enhanced competitiveness in the DVC through curricula that is entrepreneurial, gender sensitive, practical oriented and relevant to the needs of the labour market and with a focus on poverty reduction.