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General Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCC) Trade and Matchmaking Mission to the Netherlands The trade mission aims to expose small- and medium-scale companies in Ghana to the Dutch market, explore the possibility of partnerships, investments, and export markets and learn about new skills and technologies to grow their businesses. The Dutch companies they meet will also benefit by gaining knowledge about a foreign market and the opportunities it presents to their organizations.
Plant protection cooperation Netherlands – Vietnam Bilateral trading in plants and/or plant products is not meeting it’s full potential due to the current legislation that regulates this trade. There is a unique opportunity to support Vietnamese government that is in the process of drafting a new law on plant protection and quarantine. Efforts to create understanding for the Dutch best practice in plant protection can result in new regulation that boosts bilateral trade and the Dutch businesses involved.The aim of this project is to strengthen the production and international trade position of plant and plant products by enforcing the Plant Protection Department. This project is being carried out by Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit. NVWA experts will organize trainings, workshops, study visits and developing standards procedures and systems for monitoring and analysis, a database and organising a seminar. Mostly, experts from NVWA will go to Vietnam to implement and organise these activities. In few occasions the PDD experts will go to the Netherlands for study visits. In four areas (Hanoi, Hai Phong, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City ) over 100 people will be trained and reached with the workshops.
Fact-finding support local governance Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Assessment of the status quo in the field of local governance in KSA, including stakeholders, needs and potential areas for bilateral cooperation. If possible focus on women in municipalities.
Meteo expert DRR-Team in Malaysia (DRR218MY04) This project concerns the deployment of DRR-Team, following the formal request by the Chief Minister of Penang and supported by the National Disaster Management Agency of Malaysia. DRR-Team is asked to assist with expertise in the area of flash floods and landslides. More particular on flood risk management, meteorological and hydrological forecasting tools and emergency plans.
Study solid waste, biomass and other circular economy opportunities in South Africa This study will provide an overview of private sector, investment and development opportunities for circular economy initiatives in South Africa. In this project, these identified opportunities will be translated into concrete leads for cooperation and matches between South African and Dutch companies in the following sub-sectors: •	Solid waste management chain •	Biomass (e.g. biogas)•	Plastics •	Building and construction•	Circular use of water
Study ICT Kenya This ICT study aims to map ICT-related initiatives in the Kenyan agro sector. Innovative ICT services and products are needed to enable farmers to make leaps in improving productivity. The Netherlands Embassy wants an overview of existing initiatives, how they operate and the challenges they meet in creating a market and having local impact. By pointing out these challenges, newcomers will have guidelines on how to operate. The Netherlands Embassy has more information on how to support the private sector to develop ICT services and products and link them to farmers.
Cracking the Nut Cracking the Nut aims to realise an inclusive and competitive cashew sector in Benin and Burkina Faso. West Africa produces large quantities of raw cashew nuts. A low yield, lack of processing industry and insufficient collaboration between stakeholders lower the added value. Most profit is made overseas. This project aims to increase revenues for 10,000 farmers and income for 2,500 workers in the processing factories of the two countries where TDI, one of the partners, already has processing factories. The project will:- support smallholder farmers and cooperations with inputs and training- strengthen the TDI processing factories through mechanisation- set up four decentralised de-shelling units of raw cashew nuts- establish ten cashew apple juice factories and 2 Cashew Nutshell Liquid (CNSL) factories.At both sector and governmental levels, efforts are made to increase professionalism within the sector. The business case is three-fold: processing nuts with machinery to white cashew kernels, processing the shells into CNSL commodities used in the industry worldwide and expanding microfinance loans to farmers for maintenance and renewal of their plantations. An inclusive and competitive cashew sector in Benin and Burkina Faso, in which smallholder farmers, processors and service providers are enabled to increase productivity and efficiency in a collaborative way generating increased revenues/profits for at le
Solaris for sustainable estates The Solarus PowerCollector™ is a concentrating, hybrid solar photovoltaic and solar thermal panel. Concentrating means that it has a curved mirror to collect and reflect more sunlight throughout the day. Hybrid means that it combines solar photovoltaic (PV) generation of electricity with solar thermal (T) generation heat.The project focuses on demonstrating the PowerCollector in South Africa.
Team leader DRR-Team Scoping Mission Sri Lanka (DRR16LK01) DRR-Team received an official request from Sri Lanka for technical assistance, evaluation and recommendations on drinking water quality and drinking water supply problems, related to the Chronic Kidney disease.
Housing construction components from locally cultivated bamboo in Kenya (Phase I) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) in Developing Markets.Design and innovate with locally available materials for economic and environmental impact.Phase I: Feasibility study.
ShrimpTechVietnam – Driving the transition to net zero farming ShrimpTechVietnam 2023-2026 will boost the transition of the Vietnamese shrimp sector towards profitable net zero shrimp farming.This concept of net zero farming is built around reducing greenhouse gas emissions within shrimp production to a level that is balanced by the removal of an equivalent amount from the atmosphere.This can be achieved by improving the efficiency and productivity of farming practices, use of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, new farming systems and knowledge in the fields of cryogenics, low impact inputs, and local value chain development that enable Vietnamese shrimp farmers to produce shrimp efficiently.
Flight tickets for 6 Senegalese public participants of Port visit Influentials Programme March 2017 The overall aim of the economic mission is to strengthen economic relations between the Netherlands and Senegal, to stimulate private investments in Senegal and to contribute to economic growth in both countries.
Solar Desalination Oman Short general project overviewThe Solar Desalination Oman project focuses on a modular, sustainable and inexpensive technique to purify water (seawater, wastewater) for drinking water, among other things. The water problems in the world, particularly in countries around the equator, mean that 1.2 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water. Unfortunately, current methods of purifying water are not sustainable because they use fossil fuels and waste products. In this way, they also contribute indirectly to the problem, rather than solving it.The beneficiary of this project, Port of Sohar, is looking for ways to become self-sufficient in clean water, in order to increase water security. In addition to drinking water facilities, noting that the company possibly aspires to have an additional distribution of bottled water, clean water is necessary for industrial processes, for the cleaning of a field of solar panels and for the horticulture plans of Port of Sohar. Water security has a major impact for the company but also for the wider environment, including drinking water facilities, cleaner industrial processes (wastewater reuse) and a more sustainable horticulture.In this pilot project, Kascade and MEDRC test the Solar Still under the practical conditions, namely: extreme temperatures, sun, seawater and sand. The developments and innovations that have emerged from the R&D together with TU Delft will be tested on operation, efficiency and sustainability. Although a large number of future customers have indicated that they want to purchase the Solar Still, they want to see practical results that underpin the theoretical (scientific) basis of the Solar Still. The additional aim of the pilot project is therefore to use the practical results to attract customers for investments in upscaling.Initial activities and results of the projectKascade and MEDRC expect to achieve at least the following results:- Increase the daily yield from 4 litres to at least 8 litres of clean drinking water per square meter of Solar Still.- Further efficiency impact for yield of 10 litres per square metre of Solar Still per day in the follow-up phase.- Water of drinking water quality.- Reduce the cost of drinking water from 1.36 euro to 0.68 euro / 1,000 litres.- 24-hour desalination.- Attract interest from potential customers in the region and sell projects.Thanks to the pilot project, the potential customers will proceed to order the Solar Still. In 2019 it is expected that some 26,000m2 Solar Still will be sold and placed according to the results of this pilot. Interested parties range from port companies and companies in the oil industry to horticulture, farmers associations, groups of citizens, NGOs and defence.With the 26,000m2 Solar Still to be installed in 2019, 100,000 to 150,000 people can be provided with their daily drinking water needs (depending on the use of the Solar Still). In addition, the cost of water for these people will decrease significantly. As a result, the impact of this pilot is enormous.
ExpoCruz 2017 – Integrated Pest Management This participation in the ExpoCruz fair in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, will focus on agricultural technology and knowledge transfer, as agriculture is an essential engine of the Bolivian economy.Introducing agricultural technology, but also knowledge about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), especially sustainable ways of producing, will help enhance the yield, add to the food security of the country and open new export opportunities for Bolivia.Fair participation will also increase business opportunities for Dutch companies, for which the identified opportunities in agro fact-finding provide a solid basis and make the Netherlands more visible in Bolivia in general terms.
Realtime monitoring of activity of E. coli and coliform bacteria in South African Drinking Water microLAN B.V., based in Waalwijk, the Netherlands, is a company specialized in early warning systems for water quality, monitoring based on light measurements. microLAN took the initiative to develop a real-time monitoring system based on the light emitting bacteria (Vibrio fischeri) that reacts to the presence of pollutions in water.The objective of this demonstration project is to demonstrate that microLAN’s BACTcontrol technology can be used to monitor the quality of drinking water in Gauteng, where E. coli and coliform contaminants can be detected in real-time. By the early signalling system, the quality of drinking water can be better guaranteed.
Demonstration projects, feasibility studies and investment preparation studies (DHI) Demonstration projects, feasibility studies and investment preparation studies (DHI) supports enterprises (including enterprises in the overseas parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) who are willing to internationalize and to position themselves in new markets.
Waste disposal center in Swaqa Landfill The overall objective of this project is to contribute to the establishment of a suitable and sustainable hazardous waste disposal centre in the Swaqa landfill.
Shiraka Training Programme Trade Promotion and Economic Diplomacy 2022 This annual course helps civil servants and relevant semi-public organisations working in economic diplomacy to share their knowledge and skills, enabling them to lead and inspire the modernisation of trade promotion in their home countries. The course also aims to strengthen participants' ties with the Netherlands and stakeholders in the Dutch trade promotion sector.
Matchmaking Egypt fruit vegetable producer Matchmaking Egypt fruit vegetable producer.
VCA Horticulture & Floriculture The purpose of this project is to give a comprehensive overview of the agricultural sector in Senegal: an indepth picture of how the sector is organized as well as the role of different institutions and actors.This project was implemented within the framework of the L4ED programme (Local Economic Development/Leads for Economic Diplomacy) and initiated by the Netherlands representation. The project aimed to contribute to (the enabling environment for) local private sector development as well as economic diplomacy. It concerns a small intervention that serves as catalyser for further developments.
Micro-projects for Private Sector Development in Chad This projects enables the Netherlands embassy office in N’Djamena, Chad, to provide relative small budget to local organisations to come up with their ideas and proposals for local private sector development. Local organisations get the chance to get funding to implement relatively small-scale initiatives in order to create impact for their beneficiaries or constituencies. Potential scale up of these initiatives is possible if the project implementation has been successful and scalable, and the local organisations proofed to be a reliable partner.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) support Sierra Leone and Liberia The private sector in Sierra Leone and Liberia consists largely of SMEs lacking experience in international collaboration. However, this kind of collaboration could help them grow, build capacity or access finance for investments. This project will train 30 local companies in Sierra Leone and Liberia in positioning themselves, developing their product and presenting themselves as interesting partners, through a training program conducted by local specialists with international networks. The aim is to contribute to more potential partnerships that benefit local and Dutch companies.
Pilot purification plant for landfill percolation water in China Short general project overviewThe environmentally oriented use of landfills is essential to prevent emissions of unwanted components to surface water and groundwater. Cool Separations' innovative EFC solution makes it possible to separate percolation water contaminated with salts cost-effectively and energy efficiently and to work it up into pure water and usable salts.In most landfills in China, landfill percolation water still disappears into the soil and/or in surface water, contributing to the total pollution in, for example, the Yangtze Delta. If we can roll out our EFC solution across all landfill sites in this delta, this form of large-scale pollution will come to an end based on a cost-effective business case: with one full-scale capacity EFC facility, approximately 100,000 cubic metres of clean water can be produced per year. The EFC facility is considerably more energy efficient than the current practice of incineration or evaporation of landfill wastewater. In China, there is a market for more than 500 of these plants.The aim of this WWSD pilot project is the development, construction and practical operation of a successful pilot on a 10% scale of the final full-scale EFC facility, which allows landfill percolation water to be separated and reprocessed into pure water and usable salts.The results envisaged in this pilot project are:- A well-functioning EFC pilot plant.- A report on the functioning of the EFC process of cost-effectively separating and updating landfill percolation water.- A validation report of the business case for WCET for a GO decision for the construction of full-scale facilities.This should provide the pilot site operator with enough evidence to enable an investment in three full-scale installations.
Expert on flood early warning systems / DRR-Team Scoping Mission Bosnia and Herzegovina (DRR16BA02) Severe floods inundated large areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 2014, affecting a million people and with loss of lives and damage to infrastructure.The existing flood protection proved to be inadequate. An official request was received from the Bosnia and Herzegovina Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, requesting advice and assistance on the implementation of the Action Plan for Flood Protection and Water Management 2014 - 2017.
Transformation des Systèmes Agricoles avec du Riz et de l'Artimisia (TSARA) Developing a 181 hectare large out-grower scheme for Stevia (a natural and calorie-free sweetener) in rotation with food crops that will create work and better income opportunities for 1,000 smallholder farmers (in particular women and youth) in the northern part of Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar.
Mekong Delta Agricultural Transformation Programme-Preparation phase (MDAT-Prep) A broad consensus exists among Vietnamese national and regional leaders, development partners and domestic and foreign private businesses that there is an emerging need for a G2G-led cooperating program that guides and structures the promulgated agricultural transformation for the coming ten years. Anticipating this need, a Memorandum of Understanding on Dutch-Vietnamese cooperation on the Mekong Delta Agricultural Transformation Program has been signed by the VN Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuoc and the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on April 9th, 2019. Such an overarching program would essentially be the next phase in the long-term Dutch-Vietnamese strategic cooperation on water management and agriculture.Presently, through assignments, the embassy is working on its multiannual country strategy for agriculture, which will be linked to the Mekong Delta Agricultural Transformation Program. One of the assignments is to develop a long-term, phased and initially focused approach for the coming years (MAG19VN05), which also feeds into the strategy of Vietnam for 2020 to 2030 (to be developed and discussed in early 2020).
Mapping Dutch business opportunities in water- and climate smart agriculture The Netherlands Enterprise Agency will organize a seminar in January 2024 in The Hague to update interested Dutch companies and knowledge institutes about developments in Tunisian horticulture. For this purpose, RVO has commissioned this mapping to identify and present business opportunities and potential partners for business and knowledge cooperation in Tunisia. The project also serves as an intervention substantiating the proposed mission in June 2024. The objective of this mission is to explore cooperation opportunities in the field of water- and climate smart agriculture with special attention for youth employment and women participation.
Research on the sea freight possibilities for the biological sugarloaf pineapple This study examines the feasibility of transporting biological sugarloaf pineapples by maritime transport. Maritime transport could mean a considerable cost reduction compared to air transport, thus increasing opportunities for exporters and producers from Ghana and other West African countries to market their products in Europe. At the same time, a beneficial outcome also offers opportunities to Dutch importers, who can meet European demands at a lower price.
Public Private Partnerships (PPP) Workshops A PPP study visit for essential stakeholders in the horticulture sector in Rwanda will be organised in The Netherlands in June 2018 as a follow-up of the visit of The Netherlands Topteam of the Topsector Horticulture and Starting Materials in 2017. Many of the concepts to be introduced are rather specific to what we have developed in our society (Triple Helix, Top Sector approach and PPP defined differently than in other contexts). It was important to understand the relevant topics and specific needs of partners in Rwanda regarding PPPs in the horticulture sector. That is why a preparatory visit to Rwanda was held first in January 2018 in Kigali.
#CoCreateMyCity Johannesburg 2021 This project aims to bring together representatives of the city of Johannesburg, local entrepreneurs and knowledge institutes on smart solutions for resilient cities. The project helps to create new partnerships, promote knowledge-sharing, skills development and the inclusion of previously disadvantaged entrepreneurs to improve local capacity to address city challenges.
Intelligent renewable energy in Ghana The project involves the realization of sustainable energy systems in two Ghanaian companies. In both cases it goes well fermentation of waste (organic matter into biogas) and then bring the gas into value for its own use. Demonstrate the commitment of Dutch technology in the field of intelligent energy solutions with an emphasis on biogas and the value from the gas technical, organizational, legal and financially feasible.
Sow directly in Myanmar Kramer B.V. is a Dutch company specializes in the development, production and sale of high-tech agricultural equipment for growing various types of vegetables. The technology that will be demonstrated is Kramer ProSeeder Single seed drill. The sower is specially designed for easy and efficient sowing of all sowing seeds and transplants. The demonstration will take place in cooperation with local farmers.
Expert modelling wave energy DRR-Team Cuba DRR-Team is asked to assist with expertise in coastal flood management, particularly in densely populated areas. Design of infrastructures and environmental engineering works (combined natural and artificial solutions), as well as among others modelling of wave energy dissipation.
Fighting Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone (DSS15EBL13) Deployment of DSS in the fight against Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
UNICEF – Madagascar – WASH This is an assignment at the request of UNICEF.The Southern regions of Madagascar, Androy, Anosy, Atsimo Andrefana, already the furthest left-behind, are experiencing a humanitarian crisis resulting from recurrent severe drought and food insecurity. Over one million people, over 40% of the population in the 10 most-affected districts – are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance.Due to some issues about data collection and data analysis since the beginning of the Drought crisis, the WASH Cluster decided to assess the WASH Cluster Information System. There is urgent need for more coordination of the activities of all stakeholders providing emergency WASH services to the affected populations. The WASH sector needs to increase it Information Management (IM) skills set and experience, to be able to respond to high reporting demand. The IM WASH expert will assist on improving data management within the wash cluster in Madagascar.
Sustainable Energy HPS Solutions for Nigeria With over 80 years of experience, VONK is an international electrical & instrumentation (E&I) and control & automation (C&A) solution provider for the oil & gas and energy markets. The feasibility study is about the delivery of a Hybrid Power Solution (HPS). These systems provide a sustainable solution to replace diesel generators especially for areas where energy supplies are not stable or for remote areas.
Reliable Geo-Information for Land Use optimisation Indonesia This project aims to help the Indonesian authorities ensure that everyone in Indonesia, especially indigenous peoples, has access to secure land administration. To achieve this, the project will increase awareness and understanding of international initiatives such as the Fit for Purpose Cadaster. Local organizations can use Sustainable or Participatory Land Use Planning (SLUP, PLUP or similar) projects to develop appropriate policies for formalization.