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Caribbean: Strategic review and new action plan for CAHFSA
- 06/04/2022
- Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
- Category: Caribbean, News
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The Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA) has agreed a customised action plan for the implementation of Fit For Market SPS programme support. The main aims of the action plan are to strengthen the agency’s organisation and governance; provide capacity building for its members and staff, including in COLEACP’s Rapid SPS Assessment Tool (R-SAT); and share expertise in facilitating intra-regional trade through networking and engagement with the private sector. In September 2021, a strategic review webinar with CAHFSA’s… + -
Madagascar: Working week for the implementation of COLEACP R-SAT tool
- 11/02/2022
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: ACP EN, News
A workshop was held at the beginning of February in Madagascar, bringing together private and public stakeholders involve in the “dry grain” sector, to discuss the implementation of COLEACP’s Rapid SPS Assessment Tool (R-SAT).… + -
Resource for NPPOs: Phytosanitary awareness and R-SAT
- 25/10/2021
- Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
- Category: Africa
Dr Chagema Kedera, NExT Kenya Programme Coordinator, presented a webinar organised by CABI on “Phytosanitary Awareness: IPPC contracting parties’ obligations and phytosanitary measures for market access” to over 70 participants. The presentation covers the obligations of contracting parties to the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC); the functions of National Plant Protection Organisations (NPPOs); International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs); and the IPPC Market Access Guide. You can view the webinar here: The video also explains COLEACP’s Rapid SPS Assessment Tool… + -
Disseminating R-SAT – COLEACP’s Rapid SPS Assessment Tool
- 27/05/2021
- Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
- Category: Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Suriname, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Competent authorities of six priority countries On 22 and 29 April, COLEACP’s new Rapid SPS Assessment Tool (R-SAT) was presented in English and French to competent authorities of the six priority countries where it will soon be applied: Suriname, Uganda and Zimbabwe; Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal. A presentation of the tool was followed by discussions. The planning for its implementation in the six pilot countries will be discussed with each country individually, including selection of the value chain that… + -
Training in the new Rapid SPS Assessment Tool (R-SAT)
- 17/03/2021
- Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
- Category: Africa, Caribbean, News, Pacific
Two online R-SAT training sessions took place in February and early March, each for nine experts – in English for participants from the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA), the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Zimbabwe; and in French for experts from Cameroon, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Madagascar, Senegal and Togo. Experts’ feedback will inform the final version of the tool, and the training will be followed by the use of R-SAT in… + -
New COLEACP Rapid SPS Assessment Tool – promoting dialogue and engagement
- 09/02/2021
- Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
- Category: Africa, Caribbean, Pacific
COLEACP’s new Rapid SPS Assessment Tool (R-SAT) provides an integrative change management model to help competent authorities in ACP countries assess their national sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) systems. At the heart of the model is the facilitation of dialogue and engagement between the key stakeholders, both public and private. In the final stage of developing R-SAT, online training sessions are taking place with SPS experts: one in English in the second half of February, and one in French in the… +
