devinitorg/iati-policy-markers huggingface dataset:
Venture Building Programme to reduce food loss in Kenya Dutch company Enviu B.V. wants to create an efficient vegetable and fruit chain and reduce post-harvest loss in Kenya to increase farmers’ resilience and food security. Approximately 40% of the fruit and vegetable produce in East Africa remains underutilised for consumption due to inefficiencies in the food chain, whilst malnutrition remains a crisis in the region. To end these conflicting issues, Enviu has the ambition to improve systems in the entire chain by building and scaling local social ventures that work to reduce food losses, decrease malnutrition and increase livelihood of farmers and communities in the bottom of the chain as well as those that make healthy food more accessible for people in the ‘base of the pyramid’.Technical Assistance (DGGF-TA) provided support to develop a Venture Building Program in Kenya with the aim to validate the systematic approach of such program to develop impact focused, commercially viable business cases to reduce food loss in Kenya. The project included an assessment of issues in the value chain, of which the report is shared with 30 actors focusing on post-harvest losses in Kenya, and the selection of the following promising Kenyan businesses: Taimba, SokoFresh, Mlo Zone and Happiness Fortified who received support to develop their concepts. The project supported 12 direct jobs and resulted in knowledge transfer to at least 100 smallholder farmers and increased awareness within the entire food value chain and in particular in the supply chain of the selected businesses, for example regarding cold storage  ?  which will improve the position of mostly female farmers involved  ?  and regarding hygiene and health standards for street vendors which will improve food quality. These social ventures are currently in the process of further scale-up and attracting external investment which has the potential to create 50+ jobs and professionalise the food chains in Kenya. Furthermore, the project resulted in useful insights in how to develop similar programs and ventures that may benefit future investments and other DGGF-TA projects.
Piloting Online School Content Titik Pintar provides personalized practice material for children on primary school in Indonesia. Using the government curriculum as a base and adding content from multiple curricula, the full spectrum of what children need to learn will be provided. During the DGGF-TA project Titik Pintar further developed content for the app and piloted at 6 different schools. Training teachers in the use of the app and providing freelance jobs related to content creation, marketing, training and data analysis. During the pilot, the focus has been put in Science and Mathematics as courses to educate primary school children. During the project, 20 FTE were supported and 40 people were trained.
Afghanistan - MIDO Dairy: Training local youth how to process dairy in Kabul. MIDO Dairy in Kabul, Afghanistan focusses on dairy processing and producing products such as yoghurt for local consumption. Although there is dairy production in Afghanistan, fresh dairy products are rare and 90% of dairy products are imported from nearby countries such as Iran. Vocational training or education for this field is not available in the country and people are usually trained on the job.  With the support of Technical Assistance (DGGF), the company sought to increase local production capacity, to improve the local supply chain and milk quality and to enable local sourcing of milk by transferring knowledge. Part of the project was the purchase of milk testing equipment, local sourcing of milk through implementing cooled transport and providing training and coaching to local youth and milk farmers. The project directly supported 21 jobs and indirectly supported 50 milk farmers. 27 employees of MIDO received training on how to produce high quality milk products and 50 farmers were educated on how to increase milk quality and hygiene. Furthermore, an additional 800 store owners received regular awareness coaching on how to cold store fresh dairy products in order to maintain product quality. Further upscaling activities are currently being explored.
High End Cashmere Goat and Wool Project in Gorkha, Nepal Nepal is one of poorest countries in the world and suffered tremendously from the devastating earthquake in 2015. Once famous for its cashmere products, Nepal seized to produce cashmere wool due to the indigenous goats being kept for meat production to feed local communities and foreign goats not being suitable for Nepal’s geographical circumstances. Furthermore, political tension and competition in the region are rising,  causing Nepalese cashmere garment production to decrease, skills being lost and livelihoods of many families being threatened. Dutch company So Good to Wear, that works with famous Dutch fashion brands such as Wendela van Dijk and Margreet Olsthoorn, has the ambition to bring back Cashmere goat keeping and Cashmere wool production to Nepal by establishing a fully sustainable and fair ‘from goat to garment’ wool production chain that meets high market segment demand. In order to validate the market and to prepare for future investments, Technical Assistance (DGGF-TA) provides support to set up a local breeding program and spinning program for high quality cashmere wool production, as well as a guarantee for its first shipment of garments to Europe. By developing this new breed that is suitable for Nepalese climate and by training families and communities to become goat herders and to set-up their own small scale franchised goat farms entire communities will be able to build a sustainable incomes. Through its unique cooperative ‘fair chain’ model, profits and goats will be shared equally amongst all people within the entire chain, including the farmers and spinners. The project already supports 18 direct jobs and 22 indirect jobs and provided training to 20 people. The first 200 baby goats have been born early 2020 and the first shipment of garments is expected early 2020. Further investments in a local production facility of Cashmere wool products and expansion of the number of goat farms are planned. In 2022, the first goats will be shared amongst farming families, with the potential to develop a growing number of farms per year. Each farm will create 6 to 7 jobs and support 3 to 4 families. The program has the potential to build more than 230 farms support 750-1,000 families by 2030.
Develop a Water Supply Master Plan and Detailed Design for Beira and Dondo The Fundo de Investimento e Património do Abastecimento de Água (FIPAG), on behalf of the Republic of Mozambique, has received a Grant from the Government of the Netherlands through the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) under the umbrella of the Develop 2 Build (D2B) Fund. The fund will be applied for a contract to develop a Water Supply Master Plan and Detailed Design for Beira and Dondo.
India - Creating the right product martket fit for the Tjebbi Tjebbi, a social entrepreneur (Dutch) focusing on local impact, wants to focus on the lower (and lower middle class) women and their children/families who have to rely on public or community toilets because they are on the move or cannot afford a private toilet at home. 
Tjebbi developed a product for sanitary use as a portable bidet, a water dispenser working on manually driven pressure that can be held and used upside down. The device is for sanitary purposes when no clean water is available (for instance in trains).
The target market is India given the size of the population with limited access to clean water. 


In order to prepare for full scale market introduction for which external investment financing will be needed, on site market validation is required. 
The overall aim of the project is to test and create the best product market fit for the Tjebbi. 
The market validation will be done in Pune, India, being a fast growing city. This means it represents what most urban and suburban regions in big cities also experience. 

With Technical Assistance Tjebbie can invest in product optimization and select optimal framework for exploration lab for market validation
The market validation is to provide necessary input for the business plan in order to seek investment finance. 
Tjebbi is a start-up company with limited means to bare the full costs of the market validation. Thus Technical Assistance from DGGF may help to overcome a crucial phase to convince potential co-investors and qualify for DGGF Start-up financing.
Forest Effect Fund ForestEffect is based in The Netherlands (The Hague). They envisage to make at
least 7 acquisitions in Dutch SMEs and locally established companies to facilitate
expansion strategies of these companies into DGGF-countries. 
The strategy of ForestEffect is based on making investments in the food
commodities sector with the purpose of improving the sustainability of the food
value chain. In addition, stopping further deforestation is a key element in their
approach. Good management and a sound business strategy are perceived as
being value drivers. In addition, local impact should be a key aspect while
creating jobs, transferring knowledge to the local population and to ensure
production growth. This will be reported and monitored on an annual basis. DGGF provides a loan of EUR 4 million leveraging the EUR 4 million which the
private shareholders invested in the fund.
Construction of Public Health Facilities in Western Region (Development Phase) This project concerns the upgrading of six existing primary healthcare facilities (sites) in six marginalised rural districts in the Western region of Ghana. The locations include the towns of Akontombra, Elubo, Bogoso, Nsuaem, Dunkwa and the districts Wassa West District and Mpohor/Wassa East District. The project aims to improve access to quality health care in rural and marginalized areas by developing functional health infrastructure and addressing both the need for physical infrastructure & equipment (hard ware) as well as support for quality driven and results oriented health care delivery (software) tailored to local health needs and priorities.
Pre-finance for Walnut import from Kosovo With DGGF Pre-financing Pronuts Organic B.V. will be able to import walnuts i.e. purchase of the harvest and process and packaging of the nuts in Kosovo for export and sale in the Netherlands, EU and/or locally.
Tanzania – regenerative spice production With a DGGF Startup financing Trianon Spices B.V. will be able to expand its spice processing facility in Tanzania together with its local subsidiary. 
Trianon Spices process and export cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper and clove, sourced from more than 1,500 small farmers in the region. Spices are then processed, packed and exported for sale to large European wholesale buyers.
Trianon strives to become a world leader in regenerative spice production (meaning: high focus on increasing biodiversity, rotating crops, minimizing chemical input), starting in Tanzania. Trianon plans to expand its customer base to include other regions and higher margin buyers closer to the end consumer. They seek financing to: scale volumes and construct an additional processing facility, improve quality and expand sales
The expected impact is additional local direct employment of approximately 40 FTE and local indirect employment of approximately 3,000 jobs. All employees will be trained and 4,000 local spice farmers will receive good prices for their products and receive technical assistance to improve their farming system on a sustainable way.
In 2021 Trianon applied for a DHI (investeringsvoorbereidingsstudie) to get investment ready this helped them to prepare properly for investors like DGGF and Kampani.
Financing BiaNergy for pre-market entry BiaNergy develops technology that allows them to charge electronics remotely. Think of the transition from wired internet to Wi-Fi, but then this transition for everything with cables. Client has funding requirement of 200k opex (VF) for salaries of technicians in Turkey and 50k (TA) for patents.
Enhancement of Maternal Health and Paediatric Service (Development Phase) Zanzibar consists of two large islands, Unguja, which is the largest and most populated island and the smaller and less populated island Pemba. Zanzibar is part of the United Republic of Tanzania but is semi-autonomous. The number of Zanzibar people that currently benefits from appropriate medical hospital care is limited. The percentage of healthcare facilities that are able to deliver the most essential healthcare is by far not sufficient in particular first aid in trauma related cases as well as maternity care. Healthcare of newborn children and women is threatened by a lack of basic medical services and availability of critical medical services. Especially the Neonatal Mortality Rate. Which is said to be 78 deaths per 1,000 births continues to be high, being two times higher than the already high Tanzanian rate. In general both Primary Healthcare Units and the Mnazi Mmoja hospital are not equipped understaffed and the staff is often not well trained.Zanzibar consists of two large islands, Unguja, which is the largest and most populated island and the smaller and less populated island Pemba. Zanzibar is part of the United Republic of Tanzania but is semi-autonomous. The number of Zanzibar people that currently benefits from appropriate medical hospital care is limited. The percentage of healthcare facilities that are able to deliver the most essential healthcare is by far not sufficient in particular first aid in trauma related cases as well as maternity care. Healthcare of newborn children and women is threatened by a lack of basic medical services and availability of critical medical services. Especially the Neonatal Mortality Rate. Which is said to be 78 deaths per 1,000 births continues to be high, being two times higher than the already high Tanzanian rate. In general both Primary Healthcare Units and the Mnazi Mmoja hospital are not equipped understaffed and the staff is often not well trained.The project comprises the following elements: - Rehabilitation of Mnazi Mmoja referral hospital: This includes the extension and upgrading of the hospital’s maternity, paediatric, outpatient and emergency care departments. This is done by the rehabilitation, interior redesign and equipment installation of the existing adjacent “Old Pharmaceutical Building” (OPB), and the renovation (including works and equipment) of the paediatric ward at the hospital’s main building (MBM).- Upgrading of 15 Primary Healthcare Units (PHCU’s): This includes the infrastructural improvements and hands-on equipment (stethoscopes, microscopes, lab test sets, delivery chairs, etc.) of 15 rural health posts, 8 in Unguja and 7 in Pemba, intended to improve antenatal and neonatal care delivery in the rural areas of Zanzibar.
Academic Regional Hospital of Fada N’Gourma The D2B studies aim to deliver the feasibiity study and design for  the construction of a new Academinc regiona hospital:- Accomodate an increased pressure on the health system in the region, due to refugees from neighbouring regions with worsening security situations and patients from border countries such as Togo, Benin, Niger or Togo. - Increase the supply of care, particularly specialised care. The total ratio of qualified health personnel thus reaches 5.6 qualified personnel per 10,000 inhabitants, well below the national average (7.2) and well below the WHO recommendations.- According to the Burkina Faso Statistics Yearbook, the bed/inhabitant ratio is at 7.9 beds per 10,000 inhabitants, compared to an average of 11.3 beds per 10,000 inhabitants for Burkina Faso as a whole. The need for beds is therefore particularly acute in this health region.Expected results of the infrastructure project are: - A 300-bed Regional University Hospital (CHR-U) is built in Fada 'N’ Gourma;- The CHR-U in Fada 'N’ Gourma is equipped according to the current standards;- The human resources required for the optimum operation of the CHR-U in Fada N'Gourma are available;- Quality, specialized and safe health care is available to the populationhose in the Eastern Rregion.
Electrifying Rural Tanzania (Implementation 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.
Mozambique - Demonstrating C3 Living Units in Maputu and Beira to help rebuild Mozambique In Mozambique there is an estimated housing shortage of 2 million and approximately 13.5 million people are living in unsuitable living conditions. The recent cyclone that hit the country ruined over 240.000 houses and the total damages for housing is estimated to be over 678 million US dollar. Under the brand of C3Living, Rendiz develops affordable flexible, transportable and sustainable living units using the cradle2cradle principle. The housing units may provide a solution to the affordable housing issues in Mozambique, including for low income households seeking to rebuild after the cyclone. In the Netherlands C3 Living is the cheapest solution in its kind and the company is now looking to expand its activities to Mozambique with the ambition to locally produce and market a minimum of 500 housing units yearly within 3 years. Demonstrating and testing the local adaptability of the units, as well as assessing the feasibility of locally producing them is required prior to further investment. Technical Assistance (DGGF) provided support for the selection of local partners, to develop a demonstration unit that meets local requirements, to map the potential supply chain, to assess the most efficient and cost-effective way to locally produce the units and support to develop a local end-user credit system (lease) for affordable housing. The project was successful and already supported 9 indirect jobs of locals who also received on the job training. Further investments in Mozambique are currently being explored to offer a solution to the urgent housing issues in the country. Each newly installed unit will support 5 direct jobs and further investments could lead to 2500 direct and indirect jobs.
Ugandan farmers bring back their livestock through Circular Maggot farming,  Kabanyolo, Uganda Ugandan coffee farmers usually also keep livestock to maintain stable incomes and need a cheap and non-fluctuating price and quality to feed their livestock, one that does not negatively impact the environment as the current Silverfish does. In Uganda, the over fishing of silverfish is posing a serious harm to its population and its surrounding ecosystem and creates issues with neighbouring countries Kenya and Tanzania. Silverfish is currently used to add a fatty protein source to animal feed but prices are increasing and supply decreasing which is causing farmers to stop their business. Maggots offer a reliable, sustainable, environmental-friendly and waste-to-protein alternative and can also be used as a fertiliser.Furthermore, maggots are cultivated using organic waste, which offers a solution to help farmers and other companies get rid of their waste and thus enabling a circular model.  Marula Agribusiness wants to set up the first commercial maggot farm in Uganda by working together with local coffee and livestock farmers and local food companies to supply their organic waste to cultivate maggots and transfer these in fertilisers and protein to feed livestock of farmers. In order to prepare for further investments, Technical Assistance (DGGF-TA) provides financial support to this pilot project with the aim to test the entire supply chain and market. The project includes the set-up of an operational factory and warehouse in Kabanyolo with production capacity up to 5,000 kg per week, establishing a partnership with local university Makerere Research Institute Kabanyolo (MAURIK), training local farmers and local waste suppliers,  conducting a study into maggots as a valuable protein source for a variety of animals, as well as the development of a scalable business plan for future investments.  The project currently supports 10 direct jobs, 45 indirect jobs and has already provided training to 670 farmers on circular farming using maggots. The full-scale maggot farm has been set-up and also functions as a research centre. Upon successful completion of the pilot, further upscaling will take place. The model has the potential to be replicated in mini-farms across the country which, due its circular and small scale nature, will have a massive (positive) disruptive impact on the current silver fishing industry, livestock farming, the livelihoods of farmers and the environment.
Energy rural Casamance (Technical Assistance) Feasibility studies in order to develop a rural electrification project to provide rural health structures with solar panels in the Casamance region of Senegal.Technical Assistance
Kenya – Sustainable mobility With a DGGF start-up loan Ebee International BV will be able to grow its fleet of e-bikes and scale up related operations which are offered through a vehicle-as-a-service model in Kenya through local subsidiary eBee Mobility Kenya ltd. The e-bikes are the first ones to be designed and developed for Africa and focus on B2B and B2C clients that are active in the local last mile delivery market.
Incidentele Subsidie onder opschortende voorwaarde aan BAM voor boringen i.v.m. bruiggenproject in Guinee Boringen worden uitgevoerd door Geotec en in eerste instantie betaald door BAM. Mocht BAM het project uiteindelijk niet gegund krijgen dan zal DRIVE TA de kosten van EUR 140K vergoeden.
Ethiopia - Healthy snacks With a DGGF Start-up Loan Truluv Holding BV (Truluv) will be able to further automate and scale up the existing production facility for muesli snacks together with the local subsidiary.Truluv produces all-natural granola snacks with ingredients sustainably sourced from local smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. The snacks are made by Ethiopian women. The snack offers a healthy alternative to the unhealthy snacks.The investments required for the plant are not only to expand production capacity, but also to improve overall quality and food hygiene standards. The expected impact is local employment of approximately 32 direct FTE and 45 indirect FTE.
Upgrading and improving health care infrastructure in Northern Province Increasing the standard of health care in the Northern Province (Point Pedro, Kilinochchi, Mankulam, Vavunya) to bring it on par with the national average will improve the well-being of the 1.25 million inhabitants of the Northern province. It will also have the secondary benefit of increased productivity and employment due to better health outcomes.