• Digital training on integrated fruit fly management for the NPPO and technical managers

    • 25/06/2020
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Gambia, Mangoes, News
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    COLEACP’s digital training on integrated fruit fly management for NPPO and technical managers of Gambian companies ended around positive feedbacks from participants. The training aimed to strengthen the capacity of plant protection officers and technical managers of exporting fresh mangoes companies in integrated fruit fly management measures. It also aimed to strengthen the capacity of phytosanitary agents to inspect operators in the mango sector.… +
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  • New collaboration with TAHA, NM-AIST and WORLDVEG

    • 25/06/2020
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News, Tanzania
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    This new collaboration will establish an accredited #Horticultural Practical Training Programme offering certificate and diploma courses in Tanzania and other countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the Tanzania Horticultural Association (TAHA), the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg), and COLEACP.… +
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  • Virtual meeting between Sea-freight Pineapple Exporters of Ghana and COLEACP

    • 15/06/2020
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Ghana, News, Pineapples
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    M. Stephen Mintah, General Manager of Sea-freight Pineapple Exporters of Ghana (SPEG) and Chairman of COLEACP, attended a virtual meeting with COLEACP’s team as part of COLEACP’s COVID-19 measures to ensure market access and food security activities.… +
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  • Virtual meeting between FPC KENYA and COLEACP market access and food security activities

    • 12/06/2020
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Kenya, News
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    Virtual meeting between the Fresh Produce Consortium of Kenya (FPC KENYA) team, including FPC’s CEO Mr. Okisegere Ojepat and the COLEACP team as part of COLEACP’s COVID-19 measures to ensure market access and food security activities. We introduced two new services – for linking local and regional producers and buyers, and for external logistics services – in the framework of #COLEACP’s development programmes.… +
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  • Implementing an internal audit system

    • 03/06/2020
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News, Sierra Leone
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    COLEACP’s digital training on the identification and management of false codling moth began in Sierra Leone in late June 2020, for participants from both the public sector (NPPO inspectors) and private sector (horticultural producers and exporters). In the first virtual meeting, trainer Mr Samuel Muchemi explained the digital training, and participants introduced themselves and asked questions.… +
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  • West African mango blockchain – Making supply chains more resilient

    • 25/05/2020
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Côte d'Ivoire, Mangoes, News
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    COLEACP has been working with Société Internationale d’Importation (SIIM) and Belgian start-up BlockO to develop MangoBlockchain, currently in beta version – a tool that is especially relevant in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, where the resilience of supply chains depends on trust and transparency (Commodafrica, 19 May). A first for the region, MangoBlockchain will contribute to the professionalisation of the West African mango sector, which in recent years has experienced too many interceptions on arrival on the European market.… +
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  • Enhancing kenyan horticultural exports: COLEACP’s new EU programme

    • 15/05/2020
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Kenya, News
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    COLEACP’s new Nairobi-based programme, signed on 30 April, aims to increase the resilience, inclusiveness and sustainability of Kenyan horticultural value chains. The four-year, €5 million programme financed by the European Union through the EU delegation in Kenya, will aim to secure a lasting improvement in the capacity of all stakeholders in the Kenyan horticultural sector to adapt to evolving sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS), commercial, social and environmental requirements on local, regional and international markets. Implemented by a programme management unit… +
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  • B2B networking in the Pacific region

    • 14/05/2020
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Fiji, News, Pacific
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    At the Joint ACP-EU Private Sector Development Information, Knowledge Sharing and Networking event for the Pacific region in December, COLEACP participated in a B2B session for Fijian producers and export companies. The event, organised with the technical support of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and the Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation (PIPSO), brings together the implementation agencies of ACP/EU financing facilities and private sector development programmes on one hand, and ACP private sector stakeholders on the other.  … +
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  • Workshop on strengthening training services

    • 07/05/2020
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News, Zimbabwe
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    Through de means of videoconferencing, Zimbabwe Farmers Union participated successfully to a Workshop on strengthening training services for their members.… +
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  • First digital training in Ghana

    • 24/04/2020
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Ghana, News
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    Due to COVID-19, we have moved forward to digital training. Coleacp trainers SARPONG Mark and ADDY Kenneth introduced the first digital training in Ghana, on integrated management for fruit fly control for fresh export technical managers. Trainees followed online courses and did exercises to put their knowledge into practice. Discussions on Zoom platform about each topic enabled a Q/A session and interaction among participants; Trainees reinforced their knowledge on recognizing #mango damage and completing phytosanitary certificates. Both trainers and trainees… +
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