Covid-19 E-Coaching session for Aspire Co-operative
- 06/10/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Brassicas, News, Tomatoes, Zimbabwe
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Horticultural producer Aspire Cooperative in Zimbabwe enjoyed online coaching on implementing Covid-19 mitigation measures. Thanks to the e-coaching sessions, the director reported having a better understanding of how to handle food more safely in the context of Covid-19, leading to structural improvements in the company’s food safety management system.… +E-workshop on the implementation of an internal audit system
- 24/09/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Ghana, News, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zimbabwe
As part of #COLEACP’s Fit For Market SPS programme, a e-workshop on “Implementation of an internal audit system” was held on 23 September. The virtual session gathered NPPO internal audit managers from Ghana, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zimbabwe. During the workshop, facilitated by the expert Samuel Muchemi with participation by COLEACP’s Regional Programme Managers, the country representatives shared their experiences and the status of their country’s system, along with challenges and the way forward. Before the workshop, the internal audit… +Survey results: Impacts of COVID-19 on the horticultural sector in Zimbabwe
- 18/09/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News, Zimbabwe
COLEACP’s surveys in the early months of the pandemic aimed to gather first-hand information on the impact of Covid-19 on operators of horticultural businesses, and assess how support from COLEACP and other partners could best be redirected as a response. These were not intended to be systematic surveys – respondents were self-selecting, and the operators taking part varying greatly in size and operation. But the results provide an illuminating qualitative snapshot of the key impacts of Covid-19 to date, and… +Workshop on strengthening training services
- 07/05/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News, Zimbabwe
Through de means of videoconferencing, Zimbabwe Farmers Union participated successfully to a Workshop on strengthening training services for their members.… +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.… +