• Get ready for Fruit Logistica and Macfrut 2022

    • 28/03/2022
    • Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    The Fruit Logistica and Macfrut trade shows are opening their doors soon! Be ready to meet up again face-to-face, in Berlin or in Rimini. To help ACP horticultural companies prepare for their visits to Fruit Logistica and Macfrut, group training sessions are currently being organised under the Fit For Market SPS and NExT Kenya programmes. The training is structured around online sessions and individual coaching sessions to help put the knowledge acquired into practice. On completing these training sessions, company… +
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  • What can COLEACP’s Research & Innovation department do for you?

    • 14/02/2022
    • Posted by: Mohamed Ndiaye
    • Category: ACP EN, Africa, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Caribbean, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, News, Nigeria, Pacific, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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    On 25 January, COLEACP’s Research & Innovation department held a videoconference, to introduce the department’s range of activities and services. Regulatory monitoring tools: You can follow events at European and international levels via interactive dashboards and online databases, to support monitoring of regulations and rapid adaptation to changes (MRLs, PPP approvals, TRACES, RASFF, and e-GAP) Field trials to find new alternatives to control priority pests: How are trial activities scheduled? Learn about the 18 trials implemented since 2019, and our… +
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  • Madagascar: Working week for the implementation of COLEACP R-SAT tool

    • 11/02/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    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).… +
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  • Cameroon: Working week for the implementation of COLEACP R-SAT tool

    • 20/01/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Cameroon, News
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    A week-long workshop was held in early January in Kribi, bringing together the private and public sectors involved in the mango value chain (fresh and dried), to discuss the implementation of COLEACP’s Rapid SPS Assessment Tool (R-SAT). The tool and its roll-out are supported by the Fit For Market SPS programme, continuing COLEACP’s activities in support of Cameroon’s horticultural sector and Department of Regulation and Quality Control of Agricultural Products and Inputs (DRCQ). R-SAT supports Competent Authorities to assess the… +
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  • Just published: COLEACP Annual Report 2020

    • 05/08/2021
    • Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
    • Category: Africa, Caribbean, News, Pacific
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    The Annual Report 2020 of COLEACP and its programmes is now online here. The report focuses on the digitalisation of our activities. In 2020 Covid-19 made our daily lives more fragile – but also accelerated our activities, our local anchoring, and our use of digital tools. We have continued to deliver the planned support to our partners across the OACPS countries by helping to mitigate the negative impacts of Covid-19 on their production and marketing of horticultural products. “The Covid-19… +
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  • Use of the IPPC Hub – ePhyto in ACP countries

    • 06/07/2021
    • Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
    • Category: Africa, Caribbean, News, Pacific
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    Image source: IPPC ePhyto Solutions (ephytoexchange.org) On 28 June COLEACP held an e-meeting on the use of the IPPC’s ePhyto (electronic phytosanitary certificate) in ACP countries. The aim was to give an overview of this tool to secure and facilitate exchanges of certificates between National Plant Protection Organisations (NPPOs). The IPPC ePhyto Solution consists of three main elements: A central server (Hub): to facilitate the transfer of electronic phytosanitary certificates between NPPOs, either from and to their own national electronic… +
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  • Launch of the COLEACP Rapid SPS Assessment Tool (R-SAT) in Côte d’Ivoire

    • 01/07/2021
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Côte d'Ivoire, News
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    Côte d’Ivoire is one of the pilot countries chosen to test the new Rapid SPS Assessment Tool (R-SAT) developed by COLEACP. The main objective is to develop a priority action plan to strengthen national sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) systems, and to ensure the alignment of these systems with international standards and regulations. During the launch meeting of this pilot in Abidjan, the competent authorities chose to apply the tool to the Capsicum sector, both for the local market and for… +
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  • 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
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    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… +
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  • Focusing on young people

    • 17/03/2021
    • Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
    • Category: News, Togo
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    Miser sur la jeunesse
    COLEACP’S INCUBATOR FOR FUTURE TECHNICAL MANAGERS IN HORTICULTURAL COMPANIES IN TOGO In 2020, COLEACP started a new project in Togo – an incubator for horticultural technical managers. The project aims to help fill the gap in qualified technical staff on the Togolese job market (quality managers; packaging and production managers). This is achieved by training young graduates to enable them to become quickly operational for horticultural companies, through combining technical training and practical work experience in companies. The project was… +
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  • Training in the new Rapid SPS Assessment Tool (R-SAT)

    • 17/03/2021
    • Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
    • Category: Africa, Caribbean, News, Pacific
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    Formation au nouvel outil d'évaluation rapide SPS (R-SAT)
    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… +
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