Dr. Wario Sori Sake-Livestock Director, NRT-Trading. A registered veterinary Surgeon, a young and rising star with tremendous potential and passion for community development.  Despite his youth, his leadership and organizational skills are highly developed.

Education and Work Experience:

Bachelors Degree in Veterinary Medicine, completing Masters in Public Health.

Work Experience:

Worked as Regional technical supervisor for Sidai Africa Ltd for 5 years. Sidai Africa is a social enterprise operating in the livestock sector in Kenya whose aim is to revolutionize the provision of livestock and veterinary services to pastoralists and farmers in Kenya by creating a more sustainable service delivery model.

Dr. Wario was so instrumental in establishing Private Veterinary Service in Northern Kenya(Isiolo, Garisa, wajir and Marsabit) through Sidai Managed Franchise Model. He was crowned the RTS of the Year award by Sidai in 2016 following the ranking of Marsabit Hub under his supervision as the best from among ten hubs across the country then.

Working as Chief Officer for Livestock, Dr. Wario has registered a sterling performance and was ranked second best performing Chief Officer following Departmental performance evaluation conducted by Governor’s Response Delivery Unit of County Government of Marsabit. Among the outstanding achievements under his management are: Development of Marsabit County Livestock policy, Marsabit County Livestock Trade and Market bill, 2018, Draft Marsabit County Range Management policy, establishment of Marsabit County Livestock stakeholders’ Forum. His mobilization and coordination skills is highly appreciated and praised by partners.

Currently implementing a farm-field school pastoralists herders training program dubbed ‘Ufugaji Bora Mashinani’, loosely translated as ‘Better livestock production at the grass-roots level’ where herders are trained on feeding and supplementation, breeding selection, animal health and husbandry, Livestock market, range management and climate change, leadership and governance.

A grassroot leader always advocating for youth and women rights, empowerment and their participation in development planning and implementation. Was identified as youth leader and participated in Validation of Kenya 2010 Constitution as Delegate for North-Horr Constituency in 2009 and Youth Employment in Agriculture as a Solid Solution to ending Hunger and Poverty in Africa Conference in Kigali Rwanda in August 2018, invited by CTA.

Areas of Interest:

1. Empower herders/pastoralists to participate in development planning: In Kenya, pastoralists community regularly miss out from participation in annual development planning because of poor communication where the information about scheduled public participation programs don’t reach the remote communities where most livestock keepers live. This needs to be improved through development of master plans where developments are projected into years ahead instead of rushed annual planning and also by improve communication.

2. Increase Budgetary allocation to Livestock Sector: There’s a policy declaration, Maputo declaration, that Production sector should at least receive 10% of the Government’s annual budget to improve food security. This is not often honored by successive governments and needs to be implemented to enhance development of Livestock Value chains with strategic focus on research and development. The increased budget will also improve extension services that’s currently so crippled leaving pastoralists to access minimal critical information on weather and market conditions.

3.Review, harmonize and implement existing policies: There are so many policies that are lying idle. These policies can be helpful in increasing revenue base if implemented. They will also help in improving resource allocation while increasing development in the value chain especially regarding trade regulations, disease control and revenue collection.