This research project identifies and analyses institutional conditions for scaling low-emission development dairy interventions in an inclusive manner. The formulation and implementation of inclusive low-emission intervention strategies is complicated by asymmetric power relations between actors, conflicting interests, misalignment of incentive structures, discrepancies between short-term achievements and long-term strategies, and disconnected formal and informal sectors. Moreover, the urgency to respond to climate change may induce a search for simple and transferable solutions with high emission reduction potential. This may hinder investment in the development of context-sensitive strategies that simultaneously maximize societal co-benefits. By systematically valorising multiple pathways and capturing diverse priorities, interests and management styles, this project adopts a socially responsive approach to scenario development. Facilitating interactions among representatives from private and public sectors in research-driven dialogues stimulates and catalyses intervention strategies that can be inclusive of a wider range of actors and therefore enhance the scalability potential of low-emission intervention strategies.
The project will contribute to three objectives:
- To assess the institutional conditions enabling or constraining the design and implementation of actor-disaggregated intervention strategies tailored to local variability in the East-African dairy sectors.
- To integrate area-specific public-private configurations into interactive dialogues enabling collective navigation towards leverage points most likely to drive inclusive and low emission dairy development.
- To facilitate inclusive partnerships in the co-creation of organisational set-ups connecting users and experts and facilitate feedback and collaboration in the fine-tuning and adaptation of LED-interventions.