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Support Recife 2023 (DRR223BR1A) An official request (Annex A) was made on the 27th of July by the Mayor of the Municipality of Recife via the Netherlands Embassy in Brazil to RVO.  They have requested support of the DRR-Team on the effect of sea level rise and the impact on the drainage of the city.The city of Recife has identified 7 climate change problems and have asked the DRR-Team to support them with one of them.The heavy rainfall in May 2022 has led to flooding, landslides and casualties. Recife is on the 16th spot of most vulnerable cities for climate change. There is infrastructure and policy in place on prevention and risk management, which needs to be brought up to date with focus on water and flood risk. The DRR-Team should analyse the impact of sea level rise on the drainage of the city and propose strategies / solutions to the city of Recife with short term and long term options based on the various scenario’s
Vocational Training Gemco International B.V. is a world leader in the design and fit out of maintenance workshops and warehouses. We closely involve our clients in all stages of our projects, to best meet their needs. With our 35 years of experience in over 45 countries, you can rest assured of minimal risk and maximum efficiency and reliability of your workshop or warehouse.The aim of this feasibility study is to investigate whether the project Vocational Training Institute under Polonnaruwa Integrated Development Project offers a desirable, profitable and feasible investment.
Online offshore wind course for Colombian government Upon request of the Colombian Ministry of Mines and Energy, an online offshore wind course of 4 days was organised for 30 civil servants, working in the field of offshore wind development at various governmental institutes.Participants of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Mining and Energy Planning Unit (UPME), National Infrastructure Agency (ANI), National Hydrocarbon Agency (ANH), General Maritime Directorate (DIMAR), Ministry of Environment, National Authority of Environmental Licenses (ANLA), Chambers of Commerce of Barranquila and Cartagena and ProColombia (Governmental Export Agency) joined.The course was provided by DOB-acadamy, a well known training institute with profound experience in in offshore wind training courses.
Negotiating Groundwater Extractions in the Mekong Delta The scope of this assignment is the set-up of a joint trajectory with Can Tho University (CTU), Department of Water Resources Planning in the South (DWRPIS), Southern Institute of Water Resources Research (SWIRR) and local consultants. This joint trajectory aims to enhance the governance of land subsidence and groundwater management by facilitating knowledge exchange and negotiations on possible pathways towards solutions. In workshop settings and gaming sessions, the interdependencies and conflicts of interest regarding groundwater will be put on the table and solutions will be negotiated. The assignment will focus on two provinces: B?n Tre and Sóc Trang. If successful, this is expanded to a maximum of two other provinces in the Mekong Delta with a ‘light’, less intensive replication.
Scoping Mission Kiribati and Vanuatu (DRR15VU03) The tropical cyclone PAM of March 2015 is considered as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of Vanuatu and nearby island states. Vanuatu was hit directly by Cyclone Pam while the waves it generated flooded many of the islands of Kiribati. The DRR-Team received a request for assistance on coastal protection, water supply management, drinking water and sanitation.
Review water strategy Iraq This project aimed to provide the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) of Iraq and other relevant stakeholders with an agreed set of recommendations for enhancing the Strategy for Water and Land Resources and activities and initiatives for implementing the Strategy.
CSR and sustainability training for business hubs and schools (Part II) The purpose of this project is for incubators & coworking spaces (from now on: business hubs) and business schools (for professionals) to have incorporated sustainable thinking in the programmes, services and education they offer to start-ups, SMEs or clients. In addition CSR Ukraine has gained the knowledge and materials to repeat the training in the future.
Holland Africa Poultry Partners (HAPP) (TGOS140001) This project focuses on poultry in Ethiopia.Ethiopia is one of the emerging markets in Africa, with a large domestic market, significant economic growth and a strategic location near the Gulf States. The policy of the Ethiopian Government is to increase the production in the poultry sector from eggs to meat and feed. Farmers miss the appropriate knowledge, expertise and skills.A Dutch consortium of poultry companies offers hardware and knowledge of the poultry chain, together with Dutch knowledge partners, to farmers. The demonstration farm will act as a National Poultry Training Centre in collaboration with the Ethiopian Government.Partners in the project are the applicant Netherlands-African Business Council (NABC), the Netherlands embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and a consortium of Dutch companies in the poultry sector such as: Vencomatic Group, Aeres Group, Wageningen Universtiy, Pas Reform-Hatchery technologies, De Heus Animal Nutrition B.V., Isa-Hendricks Genetics, VDL Agrotech, MSD Animal Health.The Dutch partners work together with the Ministry of Livestock of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Poultry Producers Association.
Impact Tech Academy in Nigeria and Uganda In Nigeria and Uganda, there is an abundant supply of ICT graduates. There is a capacity for formal ICT education (both public and private) in both countries. However, learning offerings regarding international coding standards and professional skills are limited, and the offerings regarding the ability to promote oneself and to build up experience (for example, through internships and traineeships) are lacking.The project's purpose is to create crucial new training capacity for software developers in Uganda and Nigeria that will enable them to become professional software developers for the international market. Important components of the training capacity are:•	Self-paced learning;•	Peer-reviewed training;•	Project-based learning;•	Guided internships and jobs;•	Guided career development;•	Specialization tracks.All components aim to create software developers that can compete at an international level. In this way, the project will contribute to an improved ICT structure, improved economic opportunities and better access to markets.
Fighting Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone (DSS15EBL48) Deployment of DSS in the fight against Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
MAX-D - Maximizing Due Diligence in Minerals Supply Chains This project will help expand the public procurement market in Europe for responsible mining through tenders that reward supply chain actors with better human rights and environmental due diligence. It will develop local worker-driven monitoring capacity in key mining areas in Bolivia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), strengthening workers’ voices and providing evidence-based monitoring reports to inform public buyers’ engagement with their suppliers.The project combines the bottom-up approach, worker-driven monitoring, with a top-down approach, public procurement as driver for responsible sourcing and due diligence, to establish a complementary due diligence system that, after project’s end, will be financed by public buyers affiliated to Electronics Watch.In Bolivia and the DRC, it will strengthen monitoring and remediation capacity of civil society and worker organisations through trainings on methodology, supply chain due diligence, labour rights and occupational health and safety, developing complaint mechanisms, and strengthening cooperatives. It will generate risk assessments and compliance reports for artisanal and small-scale mines (ASM) and cooperative mines as well as large-scale mines (LSM), focusing on forced labour and the worst forms of child labour as well as occupational health and safety hazards and environmental degradation that undermine equitable and sustainable social and economic development.Also, the project aims to advance social dialogue with local and global supply chain actors, like mining companies, smelters, vehicle companies, and ICT hardware brands, to remediate violations and improve specific worksites, while enhancing due diligence practices. Public buyers will receive issue and due diligence guidance relating to specific cases to help drive compliance with the supply chain due diligence obligations for European Union importers under the EU Regulation on Conflict Minerals and the OECD due diligence model.  As this is a new field for public buyers, the project will focus on building the capacity of the participating public buyers.
Waste to Energy Kosovo Kosovo has about 30-40 dairy factory. These dairy factories generally also make cheese. A residual product of cheese is whey. Whey is often a waste product in countries without pigs (it is useful as pig feed). However, the energy value of whey is high. Through an anaerobic fermentation, the energy can be extracted as biogas and this gas can be used for the energy supply of the companies. In other countries this technique is already being applied. This project must lead to the first anaerobic fermentation of whey within a year. More installations will follow in the following years. Investments for anaerobic purification are often profitable for the companies. The research focuses on the heavily polluting dairy sector. In a feasibility study it is determined whether purification of waste water and at the same time production of biogas leads to a sustainable (environmental, financial) concept. In the feasibility study, the question is answered to what extent the biogas produced can replace the current energy sources. It is not the question whether it is technically possible to use biogas. The question is to what extent the investment can be earned back in an acceptable period. A positive answer from the feasibility study will already result in the investment in the first biogas plant in 2016.
Dredging course Myanmar Dutch dredging experts offer a course to assist Myanmar decision-makers in developing environmentally sustainable dredging projects. The course aims to contribute to a good business climate and entrepreneurship in the water and related sectors.Three purposes contribute to this overall goal:•	Capacity building to achieve better knowledge and understanding of the requirements of a dredging project, including the financial prospects.•	Increasing the ability to prepare better and more fair tenders for upcoming dredging projects.•	Positioning of The Netherlands as a reliable partner for knowledge and integrated approach to dredging.
Visualization tool to support decision making on financing the Beira Master plan Visualization tool to support decision making on financing the Beira Master plan.
ICT Sector Study The ICT sector is identified as a priority sector by the Economy and Trade sections in Pristina, Skopje and Tirana, primarily based on the high interest of Dutch companies in the opportunities in this sector in terms of investment, outsourcing and resource sharing. Over the last year, the number of trade requests related to the ICT industry in Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania has risen noticeably. The competitive operational costs and talent pool are attractive for Dutch ICT companies. A sector study on ICT will provide relevant and up-to-date information on this sector for use by the Dutch and local private sector. The study will cover the three countries, with a focus on Kosovo. The results will be presented at the Western Balkan Digital Summit in April in Macedonia.
Uruguay emergency mission (DRR15UY01) The DRR-team was requested to support the  Uruguayan government in the field of water management, with a focus on drainage and sewerage in the Department of Canelones. The emergency mission took place in February 2015. This mission focussed on the dike protecting Ciudad del Plata central.
Promotion of trade and development cooperation between the Netherlands and Burundi Top B.V. is a service provider in the field of food technology. The company specializes in designing and implementing unique innovations and turnkey projects for their customers in the food industry. Together with Zwart Techniek B.V., supplier of both generator sets and green energy solutions, Top B.V. carries out a feasibility study for the Burundian province of Gitega into the design and construction of a turnkey food processing plant in the form of a public private partnership (PPP).The project involves the construction of the plant but also the development and promotion of an efficient value chain in the local agro-food sector and the realization of development impact in the rural areas of Burundi by involving small-scale farmers. In Burundi there is still little (industrial) processing of food, while there are many small-scale farmers. These farmers lose around 40% of their harvest because they cannot sell their crops. These farmers will be involved in the project as suppliers of passion fruit, pineapple, mango, carrots, peas, peppers, etc. The food processing plant, which will comply with international norms and standards, will process fruit and vegetables into end products such as fresh juices, pureed fruit, freshly cut and frozen fruit and vegetables.The project aims to reduce imports and increase exports. Sales targets the local market and export markets in Sub-Saharan Africa and outside Africa. For the implementation of the business processes of the factory the use of energy will be an essential element because in Burundi there are major electrification problems and there is a great need for the Burundian authorities to meet the constantly increasing demand for energy. The study will spend a few days on how to set up an adequate off-grid energy infrastructure (hybrid solutions) for the plant. Therefore, Zwart Techniek B.V. is included in the study.
WASH Expert Türkiye IOM Provision of WASH services and monitoring of WASH interventions as part of the regional refugee and resilience plan, Gaziantep.
Scoping mission for support in e-certification, phytosanitary & veterinary services and food safety in Ethiopia The Ethiopian government has identified potential areas of cooperation on a variety of phytosanitary (incl. e-certification), veterinary and food safety issues. A scoping mission of experts of the NVWA (Netherlands Food and Product Safety Authority) will review these. Subsequently a multi-annual capacity building project will be designed that NVWA can implement in the coming years.
Support to Yemen on Marib Dam and flood risk mapping IOM (DSS220YE03) This project aims to provide support to perform a flood risk assessment of the new Marib Dam in Yemen.
Sustainable Food System Study This study aims to develop systemic roadmaps towards a healthy, resilient, and sustainable food system in Indonesia and to devise a circular implementation strategy.Indonesia is working hard to develop its agriculture, especially food production and is searching for applicable technologies and concepts for developing the current and planned food systems. The government appointed several areas to boost agriculture on a large scale, the so-called food systems, to realize the transformation from subsistence farming to business farming. To make food systems more resilient, new concepts and methods need to be introduced, like climate-smart agriculture, circular agriculture, smart logistics and reducing food waste and post-harvest losses. This project and the efforts focus on Indonesia’s goal of developing sustainable but economically viable agriculture. The regional focus of the study is the food system in North Sumatra and will consist of a current state analysis. It will set goals, develop a vision, identify interventions and evaluate leverage that results in clear systemic roadmaps and an implementation strategy. This study provides a foundation for action, business cases, stakeholder engagement, and pilot projects.
She Sells Shea – 35,000 women entrepeneurs making a living Women in Mali and Burkina Faso are facing recurrent incomes, food and nutritional insecurity because of lack of access and control of land, financial services, technical capacities, market access, quality inputs, year-round income opportunities and gender constraints. Women traditionally generate some income by selling Shea nuts or Shea butter in the local markets. This project aims to contribute to women's entrepreneurship by creating a secured market for their Shea and providing markets for two other oil crops, Sesame and Moringa, allowing them to become year-round entrepreneurs.Olvea Burkina Faso, the private company in the partnership, will buy the nuts and grains of the oil crops from the women's cooperatives. The secured and long-term contracts will allow business planning of the cooperatives and the private sector.The project will invest in capacity building of 90 cooperatives to make them a strong partner in the value chain. That will result in more food, better nutrition for families, more animal feed and more income. As result of the project intervention 35,000 women in Mali and Burkina Faso will have market access for their Shea and will become year round entrepreneur through engagement in the Sesame and Moringa value chains. The womens activities will evolve from se
Fighting Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone (DSS15EB005) Deployment of DSS in the fight against Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Modern banana ripening for Zambian markets Note: This project has been cancelled, because it has been withdrawn prematurely.Although this project has been approved and awarded a PSI grant, it has unfortunately never been implemented.Therefore, the full grant amount has been withdrawn. The establishment of a modern equipped banana ripening facility, containing six separate banana ripening cells with a total maximum capacity of 6,000 tonnes a year in order to provide at least 500 street vendors with freshly ripened high quality bananas.
PSD-plan mapping and interventions A local project manager will be employed in Niger to identify and execute initiatives for private sector development in Sahel countries such as Niger, Burkina Faso, and Chad. That will aid in achieving Dutch international trade and development cooperation goals in the region. The project manager will identify barriers to private sector growth, develop an action plan to enhance the business climate and implement concrete interventions. That will contribute to conflict prevention and poverty reduction in the region.
SEE-Clean Cooking: Clean Cooking SME Finance Facilitator (Charm Impact) The Clean Cooking Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) Finance Facilitator aims to mobilize finance by working with crowdfunding platforms to develop a portfolio of viable loans for SMEs in partner countries that operate in the clean cooking sector.With little finance available for locally owned companies needing capital between EUR 25,000 and EUR 250,000, the Clean Cooking SME Finance Facilitator aims to increase the availability of capital in difficult markets, and to increase cross-sectoral learning at a portfolio level and possible scaling of best-case practices and insights.During the pilot phase, RVO aims to work with three different crowdfunding platforms, each with a different focus and network, to maximize reach and insights. The duration of the pilot is between 18 to 24 months with a portfolio aiming 8 to 10 loans per crowdfunding platform.
Incoming visit female entrepreneurship from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region) The purpose of this project is two-sided. On the one hand, this project aims to strengthen the role-model position of ten female entrepreneurs from the MENA region by providing training and coaching, exchanging experiences from the different MENA countries and learning from those best practices and failures and how to enable more (young) women to choose entrepreneurship as a viable prospect and how to promote entrepreneurship among women. The ten female entrepreneurs are also given access to valuable networks by participating in (side)events during the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in the Hague in June 2019. On the other hand, to better enable RVO and policy advisors of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who focus on private sector development (PSD) and entrepreneurship in the MENA region and on the obstacles, needs and opportunities women entrepreneurs face by organizing sessions and workshops with these female entrepreneurs.
Scoping mission Port of Berbera The port of Berbera plays a pivotal role in import and export of products and commodities for both Somaliland and the Ethiopian private sector. The purpose of this study is to support the Berbera Port Authorities in their role as a landlord of this port. A clear understanding on the technical and organizational challenges and limitations of the port will be obtained. Concrete suggestions on how to increase this capacity are included.
K2K Entrepreneurship Côte d'Ivoire During this K2K project foreseen in 2021, an extensive training on entrepreneurship will be delivered to 3 Ivorian knowledge institutes (KI). Through a needs assessment, a context and KI-specific entrepreneurship course will be identified with all stakeholders involved. Special attention will be given to female and social entrepreneurship to increase the social impact of these efforts. The KIs from Côte d'Ivoire will form a pool of centres of excellence for entrepreneurial education so that lessons learnt and experiences can be shared and potential future projects and collaborations can be sparked.
PDP IV – Advancing the clinical development of placental malaria vaccines This project is implemented under the PDP IV programme by the European Vaccine Initiative (EVI). EVI's mission is to reduce the burden of poverty-related infectious diseases through the development of new, safe, effective, and affordable vaccines against diseases that disproportionately affect low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Vulnerable populations, notably children and women of childbearing age, are the target groups of EVI's efforts.
LAND-at-scale Mozambique: Scaling community legal literacy, land rights certification and climate resilience Poverty in Mozambique is concentrated in rural areas and thus associated with a high dependency on agriculture and natural resources, including land. Mozambique has a legal framework recognizing this dependency through a progressive Land Law. However, main obstacles to the proper implementation of the law include the communities’ lack of formalized land tenure, limited knowledge regarding land rights, low participation in decision-making among community members, and a lack of capacity among local government officials. The situation is further hampered by severe impacts from climate change. The main objective of the current intervention is to increase community legal awareness and strengthen security of land tenure rights, creating capacity at local level to implement and leverage the progressive provisions of the Mozambican legal framework. The programme will contribute to community preparation to intervene in an informed manner in the land sector and will also contribute to the delimitation of community and individual land-use rights based on good faith occupation and customary rights, and their integration into the formal land system. To achieve these objectives, a large-scale campaign will be rolled out, across selected districts from all three regions of the national territory, with two main and interlinked interventions, namely social preparation & legal literacy; and community land rights registration and certification.