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… +COLEACP launches new Digital Distance Training
- 24/04/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Africa, Caribbean, News, Pacific
COLEACP is moving from face-to-face training to digital training in the context of COVID-19. To comply with precautionary measures related to COVID-19, for the time being COLEACP has cancelled the organization of group training sessions. As an alternative, digital distance training is the best solution. Digital distance learning cannot entirely replace face-to-face training. However, methods and technologies are now available to achieve a highly satisfactory quality of training. COLEACP has already moved ahead with the launch of Digital Distance Training… +National workshop for the development of an action plan to strengthen the SPS control system for horticulture products exported to the EU from Zimbabwe
- 10/03/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: News, Zimbabwe
As part of its Fit For Market programme, COLEACP and Zimbabwe’s Plant Quarantine and Plant Protection Services Institute held a workshop in Harare for key public and private actors in horticulture to identify priorities and build a 3-year action plan for compliance with the EU SPS regulations.… +BREXIT: Impact of December 2019 UK parliamentary election result on ACP horticultural exports to the UK
- 15/01/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: United Kingdom
GREATER CERTAINTY UNTIL 1ST JANUARY 2021 After a period of uncertainty, there is now greater clarity regarding the completion of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU). With an 80-seat majority in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Johnson now has an unassailable majority for the passage of the revised EU27/UK Withdrawal Agreement through the UK Parliament, with this process now well under way. So the UK is now firmly on track to leave the EU on 31st January… +THE OUTCOME OF THE UK GENERAL ELECTION
- 13/12/2019
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: United Kingdom
The return of a Conservative Party-led government with a clear parliamentary majority now means the revised Withdrawal Agreement should receive Parliamentary ratification, with the agreed transition period entering into effect until at least 1st January 2021, while negotiations for a new comprehensive UK/EU free trade area agreement are completed. While any immediate prospect of a ‘No-Deal Brexit’ has therefore been averted until at least 1st January 2021, it remains a possibility given the commitments made during the General Election campaign… +General meeting of COLEACP – 12 June 2017
- 04/05/2017
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: News
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 … +Start of the year message from the General Delegate
- 21/01/2016
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Uncategorized
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… +