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Expanding Cold Storage Facility - Senegal This Dutch SME intends to invest in the expansion of an existing cold storage facility for potatoes, onions, carrots and other products in Senegal. Together with an investment in a new packing service provider.For these investments DGGF is planning to provide a loan to the Dutch company. Through the intended investments the company wants to answer to the increasing demand for cold storage by local farmers. On top of that this storage will secure the quality and extend the durability of these products. Besides this impact, the project will create approximately 15 jobs, of which 8 for women, and approximately 20 seasonal jobs. Employees will be fully trained to manage and maintain the facility, to operate forklifts and other equipment. Full instruction on (food)safety and hygiene will also be given to all personnel.This project will contribute to theSustainable Development Goals: 1 – 2 - 8 and 12.
Introduction community water treatment system and assessment carbon credit potential. Introduction community water treatment system and assessment carbon credit potential.
WaL Natural Drainage Solutions Khulna To leverage a combination of measures to reduce peak discharges, flooding and water scarcity through an integrated approach for the Moyur river system and urban catchment area in Khulna and direct surroundings
Senegal – Expanding Cold Storage Facility This Dutch entrepreneur is planning to expand part of his Dutch activities toSenegal. Through his Senegalese subsidiairy, the activities will consist ofcultivation, storage, packaging and selling of unions, potatoes and carrots.Partly for the local market and partly for the export. By doing this the companyrealizes a continuing flow of products and services.The estimated impact of this investment will be the creation of 200 jobs (fixedand seasonal), of which 50% will be female. Besides that all employees will beskilled.DGGF is planning, together with the bank, to finance this company, which givesthem the opportunity to realize their expansion and the impact.
As-Samra WWTP Solar Pane The aim of this D2B-project is to finance and facilitate the development of a feasibility study (including environmental and social aspects) regarding the construction and operation of a solar power array that will produce electricity for the As Samra WWTP System.The ultimate goal is the construction of a solar power array that will produce enough electricity for the As Samra WWTP System to replace its current grid electricity consumption. Rough estimates by MWI and SPC indicate that the solar panels would need to have a capacity of around 25 MW and produce around 40 GWh on an annual basis.
Coastal protection of the island of Kaback (Rehabilitation Study) This project relates to the coastal protection of Kaback. THe farming region Ile de Kaback is home to Guineas most important food supply region. It is  seriously threatened by the sea. The salinization of agricultural land, the threat to the population from the sea and the failure of previous interventions underline the urgency and the need for interventions. Under the D2B different studies will be undertaken to find the most suitable solution for this region.Rehabilitation Study
CAD4COVID In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Ghana has adopted a comprehensive testing strategy. Currently, Ghana is focussing on containing the spread of the disease by tracing, testing, treating, as well as restricting movement/travel. However, restriction of movement is challenging in a country like Ghana where many live day-to-day and in densely populated households, making ‘stocking up’ and self-isolation virtually impossible, which will force people to go outside, increasing the risk of the COVID-19 spread. To support decentralized triage testing with X-ray, 55 facilities across Ghana have gained access to the CAD4COVID software, which have been installed by Delft Imaging in Ghana thanks to the financial support by DGGF TA. The X-ray systems installed as part of an ORIO project were previously placed across the country. The X-ray systems were paired with CAD4TB, in order to accelerate the detection of tuberculosis. The pre-existing X-ray systems have been enhanced with CAD4COVID to build a first-line infrastructure to face COVID-19. In the period until December 2020 already 14.000 people have been screened. Due to this project 4 direct and 2 indirect jobs have been supported in Ghana. A total of 117 people spread amongst the 55 healthcare facilities have been trained to use and install the software.
Building of Level II hospitals in Beira (Development Phase) Level II hospitals play a key role in Mozambiques Primary Health Care strategy as they are first referral point for basic Health Centres and as they provide filters for more expensive level III/IV hospitals making them cost-effective and suitable for the resource poor context. Two level II hospitals will be developed implemented and operated in Beira (port city) and Marromeu (rural area) hence strategically expanding access in the province and region. The project consists of health infrastructure equipment and training. In addition technical assistance and institutional strengthening are part of the project.The hospital in Beira will be a hospital of 250 beds and the hospital in Marromeu will have 150 beds. The hospitals will heavily reduce pressure on the Beira Central (level IV) hospital which is overcrowded with patients seeking help for health problems which can effectively be addressed at the secondary level. The two hospitals will provide the following services: maternal and neonatal care prevention, treatment and control of endemic diseases (e.g. HIV, TB, malaria and cholera) basic lab services emergency and trauma inpatient (hospital) services and supervision and logistical support to surrounding Health Centres.  The long-term objective of the project is to improve access to quality health care for the poor in deprived areas of the Sofala Province in order to decrease morbidity disability and mortality rates in the region.
Lake Kivu Inland Waterway (TA ESIA) The project is focused on the construction of four ports at Lake Kivu Rwanda. With the establishment of the overall infrastructure DRIVE will contribute to safer and enhanced trade opportunities for the region, specifically the regions connected to the Lake on both Rwanda and the fragile Eastern DR Congo side.
ASL / Primstar - Shrimp Farming project Nigeria The global market demand for high-quality shrimp is currently exceeding supply from the sea. With co-financing of DGGF and a Dutch bank, the Dutch SME company is able to build a shrimp farm in Nigeria to meet growing demand. The investment creates more than 320 jobs. Employees are trained in shrimp farming techniques. Medical care is free for employees and their families. The shrimp farming will meet international requirements for sustainable shrimp farming.
Make People Stronger: Respectful Farewell Proper morgue facilities are not widely available in Uganda. Burials are however considered culturally highly important – families spend an average of €2,000-5,000 on a typical burial. Due to climatic circumstances, there is a time constraint to burials, even though the more affluent members of a given family tend to live abroad. Extending the time between the actual death and burial increases the chance for the expatriate family member to be able to attend the funeral. This is a market that is currently under-serviced, despite the clear demand.Dutch Social Enterprise Make People Stronger (MPS) wants to service this market by opening several cooled morgue facilities across the country that will enable respectful and hygienic burial services and extended time between death and burial ceremonies. Furthermore, through its business model, MPS wants to use its profits to support local hospitals and charitable organisations. This DGGF-TA is to support the build of the first morgue in Uganda. The morgue will be shipped from the Netherlands and will then be built on the grounds of a partnering hospital.
Making SMEs Export Ready Truvalu (Agribusiness Booster B.V.) was founded in 2015 and has several subsidiaries that form an ecosystem to support small and growing businesses in the agro-food and home decoration sector. Truvalu enterprises provides various export readiness services (including strategy, commercial, financial and market access support) through its network of external consultants, as well as a pool of international and local consultants. With regard to this specific project, Truvalu is supporting 8 selected SMEs in 6 different countries (Kenya; Bangladesh; Colombia; India; Bolivia; Nepal) and make them export and investment-ready. By doing so they support (rural) job creation, poverty alleviation and food security in those countries.
Accra Storm Drainage: Lafa and Onyasia drainage channels (Development Phase) The project in which ORIO is financially involved is defined as the (re-)construction of approximately 7.12 kilometers of the Lafa drain (concrete  lined open  trapezoidal sections ) which outfalls within the AMA catchment area and the reconstruction of 5.18 kilometers of the Onyasia drain (concrete  lined open trapezoidal section) which is tributary of the Odaw drain. Furthermore the project involves the maintenance of the Lafa and Onyasia drains by the Drain Maintenance Unit  of AMA for 10 years. The objective of the project is to improve the health and living conditions of the people within the communities along the drains by reducing the severity frequency and duration of flooding in the low-lying predominantly poor but commercially active areas of Accra in a socially and environmentally friendly manner. An estimated population of 698632 will benefit from improved drainage and reduction in perennial flooding and its attendant impacts.
Wable roundtable and pilot Wable’s mission is to provide clean water close to people in areas where water isn’t easily available. They provide water points (M-Safi they call it) where people can use (mobile)money to buy the amount of water they wish take. The water comes from (unclean) lakes and they automatically purify it per location themselves.
Uganda – investment in local agricultural processing With a DGGF Start-up loan Fiber Foods Holding B.V. will be able to set up a new jackfruit processing facility in Uganda together with their local partner Enimiro Products Uganda Ltd. Fiber Foods is active in sourcing and processing jackfruit in Uganda. They sell dehydrated jackfruit products to the food producing industry in The Netherlands and Europe mainly as a plant-based ingredient and alternative to meat.
Jackfruit is a fruit that grows from shadow trees on fields for vanilla and coffee of smallholder farmers. The trees and fruits are abundantly available and farmers receive an additional income for selling their jackfruit. Jackfruit is a water and nutrient efficient crop and grows year-round. Previously, it was a non-commercial crop used as nutritious cover crops and additional (snack) food for children. Fiber Foods currently sources jackfruit from 1,300 trained and certified smallholder farmers of which 30% are women. This will be expanded to 3,000 smallholder farmers in the coming years.
The estimated impact on local employment is the creation of approx. 450 direct and 1,500 indirect jobs, and knowledge transfer by training their employees and partners.
Piloting a sustainable coffee value chain to improve international market access for Colombian Specialty Coffee In Colombia, due to the lack of a quality-based value chain, challenging infrastructure, and existing culture and traditions dominating the coffee sector, many smallholder specialty coffee farmers are forced to sell their coffee as normal coffee at lower prices and do not have access to international markets. Furthermore, coffee is traditionally treated as a commodity where profits often end up with the importers and traders rather than the smallholder farmers who produce the coffee. This leads to loss of income, quality decrease and unreached potential of specialty coffee and causes many farmers to live in poverty. A paradoxical situation, as the demand for specialty coffee in Europe continues to rise and international specialty coffee traders have difficulties meeting market demands. The Coffee Quest is a Dutch green coffee importer whose vision it is to create a balanced value chain for producers, traders, roasters and others to improve coffee quality and production capacity and with this, providing market access and premium prices to smallholder farmers in hopes to improve their livelihoods and incomes. In order to meet market demands and increase capacity, Technical Assistance (DGGF-TA) provided support to The Coffee Quest and its partners Medellin Mill SAS and TMO Import Export SAS. The project included the development of a value chain, the set-up of a specialty coffee mill and 3 coffee buying stations in different regions, the set-up of an automated quality control system and transparent and digital payment system based on quality rather than quantity, as well as training of local farmers regarding quality improvement, sustainable and organic farming. The project supported 17 FTE direct jobs, of which 15 fulltime employees and an additional 2-6 seasonal workers per day during harvest season, and 662 indirect jobs, including 650 coffee farming families who were able to sell their specialty coffee at higher than markets prices. The project also provided training to 225 people, of which 200 smallholder farmers who have increased their incomes with 10-30% already. The project was successful and the first 160 tons of Colombian specialty coffee milled by the Coffee Quest has been sold in Europe. Further investments in training and certifying local farmers for organic specialty coffee, as well as opening more buying stations in order to source more specialty coffee in Colombia are being prepared and may result in 30 direct jobs and higher incomes and new income streams for 2,000-3,000 smallholder farmers within the next 3 years.
Development of a Flower Auction in Amman (Technical Assistance) The aim of this project is to develop the feasibility studies for a flower auction in Amman. The main stakeholders of this project are the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) and the Cut Flower Association (CFA). Farmers in Jordan grow flowers of high quality, but due to the inadequate post-harvest logistics at the current market facility, the quality and value greatly deteriorate. Therefore, it is needed to invest in a well-functioning auction and the related cold chain logistics to maintain the quality of the flowers. This investment will support private sector development and boost job creation in the horticultural sector for Jordanians as well as Syrian refugees.Feasibility Study
The establishment of the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) in Polonnaruwa under the Integrated Development Programme The establishment of the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) in Polonnaruwa under the Integrated Development Programme.
Truvalu At Truvalu.trade, we believe in equal distribution in the value chain for all actors and stakeholders. We believe that SMEs are the drivers of (local) economies everywhere, be it in hilly landscapes of Colombia or flat industrial lines of Germany. Our focus is however dedicated to SMEs in the food and creative sectors in developing and transition countries. We support thoroughly selected SMEs through offering tailored finance and by buying their products for sales on the Dutch market. By doing so we support (rural) job creation, poverty alleviation and food security in those countries. We believe that is the fair thing to do – business as usual! In addition, the Dutch public gets to enjoy delicious treats from across the globe! It is the objective of this project to strengthen our core activity of purchasing local natural and sustainable products that can be sold through our distribution network of WAAR stores network in The Netherlands. More specific the project will enable the purchase, shipment and distribution of 78,000+ products – ranging from home decoration, to soaps, to chocolates – from 12 local SMEs in Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Colombia and Vietnam. These SMEs provide direct jobs – in fair and sustainable working conditions – for about 1,400 people.
Establishing Sustainable and Equitable Cardiac Care in Ethiopia (2) Establishing Sustainable and Equitable Cardiac Care in Ethiopia.
Building a Starch plant in Kabupaten Batu Bara, North- Sumatera, Indonesia A Dutch manufacturer of equipment for the starch industry is developing a sustainable plant on Sumatra Indonesia together with international and local investors to extract starch from cassava roots. Customers are mainly Indonesian companies in the paper and food industry. The production will be as sustainable as possibly. By making use of the waste streams generated after processing of the cassava roots sufficient biogas can be generated for both power and thermal energy to power the entire plant. Waste water will be treated and used again in the production process which gives a significant reduction of production water. In addition to 112 direct jobs at the plant, approximately 12,000 local farmers will be contracted for the supply of cassava roots. This will enable farmers to increase their income significantly compared to current products such as palm oil.
Installation of towing capacity to facilitate transport facility (Development Phase) The project is situated in three ports located on three Cape Verdean islands nearby major North-South trade routes along the coast of West Africa. Ports are important for the economy and economic growth of Cape Verde. The economic potential of Cape Verde is limited: the islands have little natural resources a shortage of water and only a few sectors. The economy is mostly service oriented with the growth of the tourism industry as a central strategic objective. The expansion and modernization of the ports of Palmeira (Sal Island) and Praia (Santiago Island) has been earmarked as strategic infrastructure contributions to tourism growth and international transshipping. The projects objective is to be a driver of robust and sustained economic growth. One tug will be stationed in the Port of Praia (Santiago Island). The other tug will be stationed in the Port of Palmeira (Sal Island) and will also be working in the port of Sal-Rei (Boa Vista Island).The two tugs will additionally perform the following functions: - fire-fighting and oil pollution control - salvaging vessels and rescuing- ferrying pilots from and to the incoming vessels - assisting in berthing along the quays for the ports of the three islands.
PET Recycling in Tanzania The demand for recycled PET is bigger than the offer. In Tanzania waste disposal is not regulated, waste mostly ends up on streets. High value PET bottles are making up a large part of the waste. By collecting and importing this PET to Europe, Tanzania will have help with ending plastic waste and create an economy around the export of plastics, by which job creation will take place. PET Recycling Africa works with a local partner. On land of this local partner a factory will be build where the plastics will be processed. Machinery has been shipped to Tanzania.
Electrifying Rural Tanzania (Development Phase) In the Kagera region (Biharamulo and Ngara) 1 to 2 percent of the rural population has access to electricity and in the Katavi region (Mpanda) this is 4 percent. These rates are very low also compared to the national Tanzanian level of 10%. The district capitals of Mpanda Biharamulo and Ngara are not connected to the national electricity grid. They are served by decentralized networks powered by stand-alone diesel generators. Being far beyond their economic lifespan (being 20-30 years old) these generators need to be replaced. They are highly inefficient using twice as much fuel as modern generators and producing at about 30 percent of their capacity. Within 12 to 18 months their production can no longer be guaranteed. About 20,000 persons are currently dependent on these sources for their electricity. Many others in the districts are still waiting for electrification altogether. The project is defined as the upgrade and extension of the local electricity networks in the Biharamulo, Ngara and Mpanda townships that operate separately from the main electricity network. After implementation of the project approximately 100,000 people will get access to electricity, about 80,000 of these are new users and about 20,000 are existing users whose access is secured by the new generator sets. In all three project areas a small number of businesses is expected to be connected. The electrification rate will increase from about 2 percent to about 9 percent. Which is almost equivalent to the national average.
La Paz Water Efficiency and Early Warning La Paz Water Efficiency and Early Warning.
Dredging Basin 4 Port of Beirut Dredging and Debris Removal of Basin No. 4 Port of Beirut after explosion in the Port of Beirut
Waste Water and Solid Waste Mopti, Mali (Feasibility Study) The project aims at developing a comprehensive and sustainable system for wastewater treatment and solid waste management in the municipality of Mopti, up to the horizon 2030. The preparatory studies will also take into account the needs for strengthening the capacities of all actors involved in the collection and treatment of wastewater and waste. The studies will also analyse opportunities to strengthen or develop municipal infrastructure that could significantly contribute to the economic development of the city, with a focus on employment and income generating activities.
Developing a business case for plant based raw materials in Durban, South Africa Developing a business case for plant based raw materials in Durban, South Africa, as many other African countries, is being taunted by the plague of the invasive water hyacinths that are taking over lakes, damaging entire eco-systems and threatening the livelihoods of water communities. In addition, organic waste from important local produce like sugar cane negatively impacts the environment, is often burned or used for unsustainable energy production and adds no value to approximately 300,000 sugar cane farmers. Removing and processing these plants and their bio waste, is very costly and a circular and commercially viable solution is therefore needed. The Dutch consortium of PRM International has developed a technology in which biomass can be transformed into, for example high quality bio composites, feed-stock and bio-concrete, that can be used as a raw material of fibres and proteins for a variety of industries that allows circular production and creates a sustainable income from organic waste and invasive plants. Together with the Durban Green Corridor, the consortium is preparing for future investments in the development of circular and sustainable small scale production plants in South Africa for which Technical Assistance (DGGF-TA) provides support. The project includes an assessment of a few value chains, including harvesting and supplying of plant and waste streams, the set-up of a pilot plant in Durban and of a joint venture with the Durban Green Corridor, under the name Bridging Worlds, which will directly support 20 jobs during the project. Upon successful completion, the model will be replicated across the country through further investments in 10 to 100 small-scale production plants which will have a positive impact on the environment, create a new income model for local farmers and may result in 1,000 new jobs. Furthermore, a biomass application centre will be opened in February 2020 to research and develop sustainable applications of the raw material for a variety of industries based in South Africa, such as manufacturing, infrastructure, agriculture and fashion.
Chiansi Infrastructure (Development Phase) All relevant information regarding the main project is found under the Implementation Phase
Depollution and decontamination via wastewater management of Hann Bay Depollution and decontamination via wastewater management of Hann Bay in Dakar.