Report of the Second Meeting of the imGoats Inhassoro Innovation Platform (IP), Mangungumete, Mozambique, 26 July 2011

The project of “Small ruminant value chains as platforms for reducing poverty and increasing food security in dryland areas of India and Mozambique (imGoats)” aims to pilot sustainable and replicable organizational and technical models to strengthen goat value chains in India and Mozambique that increase incomes, reduce vulnerability and enhance welfare amongst marginalized groups, including women, and to document, communicate and promote appropriate evidence‐based model(s) for sustainable, pro‐poor goat value chains.  

This report provides an account of the second meeting of the imGoats Innovation Platform held on the 26th of July 2011 in Mangungumete, Inhassoro district of Mozambique, facilitated by CARE. The report describes the preparatory activities undertaken by CARE and ILRI for the meeting (section 2), followed by the meeting process and a brief analysis of two suggested solutions (section 3). The report concludes with a few lessons learned for designing and facilitating future meetings (section 4).