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PROJECT STATUS UPDATE – Consultative Meeting. Building Capacity in Coffee Certification and Verification for Specialty Coffee Farmers in Eastern African Region (CFC/ICO/45). By Filtone C. Sandando, Project Manager 16 th February 2013. INTRODUCTION.
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PROJECT STATUS UPDATE – Consultative Meeting Building Capacity in Coffee Certification and Verification for Specialty Coffee Farmers in Eastern African Region (CFC/ICO/45) By Filtone C. Sandando, Project Manager 16th February 2013
INTRODUCTION To Date the Project has been running for three years from its launch on 13 February, 2010. The Implementation process has been in three phases: PHASE I: Project Inception – Actualizing the Appraisal Report to Inception Report, Institutional Mapping, Baseline Surveys and Signing Memoranda of Understanding
INTRODUCTION PHASE II: Project Implementation - Building Capacity Activities; Training MTs, ToTs, Auditors & Farmers. PHASE III: Project Closure & Up-scaling – Impact Assessment & Project Closing Report
CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES PROGRESS TO DATE
FARMER TRAINING Training of Farmers in the Project Commenced in May 2012. • To date 1290 farmers have been trained from Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. • The farmers are being trained on compliance to certification / verification standards of Utz Certified, Rainforest Alliance, 4C Association & Fairtrade. • 1000 Farmers will be 4C verified by the end of March 2013 – from Kabonera cooperative in Uganda
Moving Forward • The Project will accelerate Farmer Training in the remaining two years remaining on the project cycle. • The training strategy will be to train 1440 farmers per quarter every three months or a total of 5760 farmers per year. • Accelerate the Actualization of the IT Portal to capture information on the project activities.
Auditor Training • Accelerate Auditor Training – Drop the lead auditor training component and concentrate on the auditors’ course and field training only
CERTIFICATION / VERIFICATION OF FARMERS • 1000 farmers will be 4C verified by the end of March 2013 from Kabonera Cooperative in Uganda. • Other two cooperatives under NUCAFE will be 4C verified by December 2013.