• Capacity building for plant health experts

    • 19/08/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Cameroon, Caribbean, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Pacific, Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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    A series of capacity building workshops for plant health experts (12 French- and 12 English-speaking experts) started in August 2022. The objective of the workshops is to broaden the pool of COLEACP experts capable of carrying out technical assistance missions and accompanying ACP competent authorities and other stakeholders. The workshops focus mainly on three cross-cutting themes: (i) pest surveillance; (ii) pest risk analysis – establishment and updating of lists of regulated pests; (iii) official control systems (import and export) –… +
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  • STDF Togo: Training for DPV inspectors on implementing official controls

    • 26/12/2021
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News, Togo
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    Inspectors of Togo’s Plant Protection Directorate (DPV) took part in training on implementing official controls during November 2021. This distance learning via the COLEACP e-Learning Platform, part of the Project for the Strengthening of the National Phytosanitary Control and Certification System for Fruits and Vegetables in Togo, aimed at reinforcing the capacity of 20 DPV inspectors to carry out official control activities of plants and other regulated products. The aim was to train participants to the procedures and instructions established… +
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  • Ethiopia: Unveiling of COLEACP Rapid SPS Assessment tool for the Ethiopian NPPO

    • 17/09/2021
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Africa, Ethiopia
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    A meeting was held on 15 September 2021 with the Ethiopian National Plant Protection Organisation (NPPO), the national focal point and the COLEACP team to introduce COLEACP’s Rapid SPS Assessment (R-SAT) tool. The R-SAT tool was developed by COLEACP to support relevant authorities, in consultation with key stakeholders from the public and private sectors, to assess the status and functioning of SPS systems. Bringing together the public and private sectors will allow the development of a priority action plan based… +
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  • Use of TRACES NT in ACP countries

    • 18/01/2021
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Africa, Caribbean, News, Pacific
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    (Source of the illustration) TRACES allows the centralisation in a database of administrative documents related to the import of goods. It also enables EU Member States to track goods, facilitate control, combat fraud, and protect public, animal and plant health. The new version of the tool – TRACES NT – also allows the centralisation of inspection certificates for organic products, phytosanitary certificates and Common Health Entry Documents for Plants and Plant Products (CHED-PP). COLEACP supports NPPOs to strengthen their sanitary… +
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  • Virtual meeting between COLEACP and Kenyatta University

    • 06/07/2020
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Kenya, News
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    Virtual meeting between COLEACP’s team and the Plant Science Faculty Members of Kenyatta University as part of Zoom session for the digital training “How to use Moodle for creating and animating an online training course”.… +
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