International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Abstract: The policy innovation described in this paper is the proactive engagement of government, regulatory and service delivery actors in supporting the previously informal raw milk market actors in Kenya and more widely in East Africa. The way this engagement has happened in Kenya suggests that alternative models of dairy development, relevant to local conditions and needs, could successfully be applied to bridge the informal-formal gap in the region and elsewhere. Lessons drawn are as much about the particular approach taken by actors seeking to achieve the policy change as they are about the specific policy change itself.