General meeting of COLEACP – 12 June 2017
- 04/05/2017
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: News
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The annual General Meeting of COLEACP will be held on Monday 12th June 2017 in Paris. All members of the association are cordially invited to participate. For more information please contact the General Delegation at dg@coleacp.org … +Already more than 100 eligible projects from 23 countries
- 27/03/2017
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
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Launched officially on December 6th at the ACP house, the Fit For Market (FFM) Programme has already received more than 100 requests for support from 23 countries in Africa and the Caribbean. More than 60% of the requests were made by companies and producer groups. They concern the fruit and vegetable sector and, more specifically, support for the sustainability of production and business management systems, as well as food safety and phytosanitary compliance. This dynamic will accelerate with the successive… +Let’s meet at Fruit Logistica 2017
- 25/01/2017
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
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The COLEACP team will be present at Fruit Logistica 2017 in Berlin from 8th-10th of February to meet existing members of the association, as well as new beneficiaries of the recently launched FIT FOR MARKET (FFM) programme. To help us organize appointments, we would like to invite any African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) exporters and European importers who wish to meet with us to contact the COLEACP team as soon as possible by clicking here. For ACP and European companies… +Fit For Market official launch at the ACP House: unanimous enthusiasm!
- 16/12/2016
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Uncategorized
The official launch of the “Fit For Market” Programme took place at the ACP House on the 6th of December. Besides the launch of a new programme, it was also a great opportunity to celebrate past achievements given the longstanding historical Public Private Partnership between the ACP, the European Commission and the COLEACP. All the positive testimonies on COLEACP actions were appreciated by the staff and members of the Board also present: a real source of motivation and enthusiasm to… +Fit for Market programme – Strengthening business competitiveness through more sustainable practices
- 05/10/2016
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Uncategorized
“Fit For Market” (F4M) is up and running. F4M is part of the 11th intra-ACP indicative programme (2014-2020) between the European Union and the ACP Group of States. It is due to be rolled out over 5 years (2016-2020) with a total budget of € 25 million (of which € 20 million from the European Union). The specific objective is to enable smallholder farmers, producer groups, farmer organisations, and micro, small and medium enterprises, to access international and domestic fruit… +Start of the year message from the General Delegate
- 21/01/2016
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
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The European dream: from “virtual reality” to “real virtuality” At the end of 2014, having supported the “Agenda for change” during the EDD (European Development Days) through the “PPP4PPP” Brussels declaration, we wrote that the poor did not have time to wait any longer. In 2015, they took to the road by foot, by “boat” and on the shoulders of their parents towards the European dream, in fear of their lives. This dream has taken on a different dimension with… +