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E-Certification Colombia The purpose of this project is to improve the certification process in the Netherlands and Colombia at both im- and export. Electronic exchange of data is more efficient and secure than on paper. This purpose is achieved when the IT systems  and procedures to replace paper certificates by electronic information and communication are developed checked and accepted. In order to comply with the new standardization (ePhyto) of eCertification the existing IT system in Colombia (SISPAP) should be modified.In world trade, more and more importing countries and/or ports develop systems for electronic communication, for instance pre-arrival and/or pré-departure information for better risk management. It is the expectation that in the coming years in international trade a shift will be made from ‘second hand information’ (paper certificates) to ‘first hand – digital – information resulting in  exchange of electronic data from competent authority to competent authority.Exchange of electronic data between Competent Authorities will not only simplify the transfer of guarantees but also simplify the inspections of the Competent Authority by comparing the relevant data electronically. On top of that electronic communication provides an excellent opportunity to adapt procedures for issuing and checking of phytosanitary certificates by Competent Authorities.This trend has been recognised by the phytosanitary legislator (IPPC) who has now started to standardize eCertification as part of the legislation on certification (ISPM12) in a new standard (ePhyto), intended to replace the paper certificate.Colombia (the local competent authority ICA ) expressed the intention to start with eCertification for  agricultural products and has decided to embrace the IPPC initiative by starting cooperation with the Dutch NVWA.
Team leader scoping mission (light), South Sudan 2022 Again, there have been severe floodings in South Sudan (November 2021). The Bentiu region was one of the affected regions which had to deal with heavy floods. The main Bentiu refugee camp has been supported years ago with the design and construction of a drainage system through the Dutch embassy and has therefore not been affected, however the smaller refugee settlements have been affected as well as the surrounding areas. Floodings are a recurrent problem and a long-term issue in South Sudan. The next rainy season is already due in April 2022. Due to climate change, more floodings have occurred since 2019.The regional/local government is in charge of the region of Bentiu. The refugee settlements are managed by actors like IOM, WFP and UNMISS who have also been involved with the effects of the floods. In cooperation with the local authorities the humanitarian actors have been working at immediate needs (short-term/medium-term measures) to deal with the current situation after the floods. However, an integrated solution is required for the region including the refugee settlements.DRR-Team support has been requested, to work towards an integrated solution, with a focus on mid-term and longer term perspectives which can be implemented in the reality of South Sudan.
Market study Dairy Armenia In January 2018, former Prime Minister Rutte and his Armenian counterpart agreed on bilateral cooperation in agriculture to develop the local dairy market.After further exploration with the Armenian Ministry of Agriculture, RVO commissioned a market study into the Armenian dairy sector to get recommendations for removing obstacles in the business environment and to inform the Dutch private sector on opportunities for market entry.The Dutch dairy sector and Armenian investors will get insight into the latest dairy market developments, government policy developments, risks and business and funding opportunities in Armenia, which can lead to more business and trade for both the Netherlands and Armenia.
Co-operation Programme Netherlands Court of Audit (NCA) and National Audit Office Tanzania (NAOT) coordinated with the Office of the Auditor General of Norway To ensure that public funds in the extractive industry are managed effectively and transparently, the National Audit Office Tanzania (NAOT) will improve its management, strategic, and technical capacity to plan and carry out audits.
Hydrogeologist Burkina Faso UNICEF Humanitarian crises in Burkina Faso have been aggravating since January 2019. The country currently hosts almost 1 million internally displaced people. The Est, Sahel, Centre Nord, Nord, Boucle de Mouhoun regions in Burkina Faso are the most affected by the current crises. The consequences of the crises are significantly reducing access rates for WASH services.In terms of access to water, the regions which are hosting the vast majority of internally displaced people face a complex hydrogeological environment with low rainfall, very limited surface resources, poor availability of groundwater resources and depleting water tables due to climate change and over-exploitation. Lack of knowledge of groundwater resources by humanitarian NGOs lead to multiplication of negative or low-productive boreholes, which negatively impacts the humanitarian WASH response.Therefore, UNICEF requests for a French-speaking hydrogeologist to be deployed to undertake a study to improve the knowledge of hydrogeology in the regions heavily affected by the security crisis.The main objectives are to:•	Identify and collect all existing studies, data and information on the hydrogeology of the study area;•	Organize all the data and information collected in an easily exploitable Excel database;•	Make operational recommendations to NGOs to facilitate more efficient and sustainable use of water resources in this area.
Orange Corners Innovation Fund (OCIF) Sudan The Orange Corners Innovation Fund (OCIF) provides young entrepreneurs in the Orange Corners programme with access to funding of up to €50,000. This allows the entrepreneurs to develop their idea in a product/proposition that can enter the market.As OCIF aims to stimulate innovation, the innovative-aspect of the business will be an important criteria for the selection of participants in the programme. It will be a condition that each business idea will have positive social- or ecological impact and addresses at least one SDG.Furthermore, each entrepreneur will have to commit him/herself fully for the period of the incubation programme. If a business idea fits within the circular economy this will be a big plus.
Water Hub Franschhoek inbesteding The WaterHub Franschhoek is based on similar water focused hubs in the Netherlands and elsewhere. The water challenges in South Africa needs solutions beyond existing technology. The combined efforts (research, education, demonstration and entrepreneurship) as present at the waterhubs in the Netherlands are believed to be very helpful to stimulate innovations and market access of new methods and technologies in South Africa. Climate related water challenges can most likely not be solved with just methods, technologies and companies known and used in South Africa so far. On a former waste water treatment plan, a demonstration and training site (the Water Hub) will be developed. Technologies can be validated, tested, adjusted with support from students who will learn about the most recent technological developments. Apart from technology demonstration and piloting, focus will also be on business development and business acceleration models into the South African and African markets. The Water Hub will eventually have limited staff to facilitate its activities in the research, training and business accelerator areas of its business model. Students will assist on location and experienced consultants will be mandated for specific tasks following requests from companies present at the Water Hub. The Consulate General (CG) in Cape Town will support the Water Hub in the initial phase in the field of market introductions of Dutch water technology companies. Dutch companies can demonstrate their solutions and can be supported with introductions in the South African market. The Water Hub will:-deliver a strategy and practical roadmap in the form of “accelerator” services on supporting  companies to the South African market.-prepare an extensive database of suitable consultants to offer the above services.- render the above services to the appointed Dutch businesses through the identified consultants and incorporate their feedback into improving the services on offer to the businesses.
Jarillón Agua Blanca, Calí 2 This project is a follow up of the previous project Jarillón Agua Blanca, Calí. The aim of this project is to send an extra expert for giving a presentation to President Santos. OCM2 BV has been commissioned to carry out the Jarillón Agua Blanca, Calí 2 project.The purpose of the project ‘Jarillón Agua Blanca, Calí’ is technical assistance for inspection and advice of Jarillón de Agua Blanca dike in Calí, Colombia. The Fondo de Adaptación wanted to prepare a diagnostic of the structural condition of ‘Jarillón de Agua Blanca’ in Calí. The Jarillón de Agua Blanca is the only structural flood protection against floods from the Cauca River. The first and most important aspect of this project is the assessment of physical condition and current structural stability of the dike system along the left bank of the Rio Cauca and Cali River to prepare a plan for repairing or strengthening of dikes after the damage caused during the last floods, assess the impact of anthropomorphic factors (occupation and misuse of the dikes) to ensure the protection of dikes to meet functional requirements without fail under various scenarios of risk-based floods. The Jarillón de Agua Blanca has suffered during the floods of 2010-11. The progressive deterioration increases vulnerability from flooding due to sudden rupture given the frequent changes in water level, accentuated in recent years by climate variability and progressive anthropogenic impacts on the upper basin of the Cauca River. These facts put at risk a direct population of 700,000 inhabitants living in this area of the municipality of Cali and will also damage the largest water treatment plant that supplies around 60% of the city. President Santos, considered the diagnosis of the Jarillón, with top priority. In November 2011 the Fondo de Adaptación requested the Colombian Netherlands Water Partnership to provide technical assistance to ensure the highest quality in the diagnosis of the structural condition of the Jarillón and take measures to minimize the risk of failure during the coming flood seasons.
Orange Corners Côte d'Ivoire – Innovation Capacity Building Programme The goal of this project is to enhance and stimulate innovation within the Orange Corners incubation programme in Côte d’Ivoire, through capacity building and knowledge enhancement of the service provider. Thereby, the project contributes and strengthens the startup ecosystem in Côte d’Ivoire regarding innovation. This includes an innovation capacity building training for the Orange Corners Côte d’Ivoire implementing team, in order to gain a stronger ability to incorporate non-digital innovation within the different phases of their incubation programme and develop new modules. In addition, participants visit the headquarters of the private partners of Orange Corners Côte d’Ivoire in the Netherlands to gain knowledge and be exposed to their approach regarding innovation and visit other structures that foster innovation such as incubators, knowledge institutes and government organization.
Acceleration Baobab sector This project entails the market entry of sustainably produced and organic certified baobab powder in the Netherlands' market, leading to increased exports, revenue, employment and income at the community level.
Lima North waste processing plant The objectives of the project, for which the feasibility study is a necessity, regard the implementation and operation of a 1000 ton Municipality Solid Waste treatment plant in the area Lima North, Peru. All the supplied city waste will be converted into electricity, recyclables and other re-usable products.
Conference on Sustainable Sourcing in the Garment sector in Bangladesh (Part A) Conference on Sustainable Sourcing in the Garment Sector of Bangladesh (MAN16BD01).On 29th September 2016, the Sustainable Sourcing in the Garment Sector (SSGS) conference was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. SSGS convened 380 high-profile participants from over 190 organizations to discuss sustainable versus unsustainable sourcing and showcase new sourcing practices that would benefit all stakeholders in the garment value chain. Amongst the representatives were officials from the Government of Bangladesh and the Netherlands, Corps Diplomatique, NGOs, International Organizations, academics, international buyers, brands and suppliers. The Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Lilianne Ploumen, was present for a keynote speech.SSGS emphasized the need to advance a common understanding of sustainable sourcing practices in the garment sector through promoting multi-stakeholder cooperation and presenting best practices. The SSGS conference was a subsequent event to the Asian Living Wage Conference (ALWC) in May 2016. The ALWC was convened through the joint efforts of the governments of Germany, the Netherlands, and Pakistan. The ALWC focused on realizing living wages through social dialogue. The SSGS conference highlighted the importance of sustainable sourcing practices for buyers, suppliers, and other stakeholders involved in the garment value chain.Through the PSD Apps budget, the Netherlands Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, covered the costs of:•	The conference facility and catering; •	Event manager; •	Research and preparations; •	Speakers and moderators;•	Communication.
Geohydrologist Bolivia UNEP/UNOCHA Bolivia is affected from an ongoing drought, as part of the effect of El Nino. A request for hydrogeological expertise in support of the ongoing humanitarian response has been submitted by the UN Resident Coordinator in Bolivia to the Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit, through the OCHA Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean.Hydrogeological expertise was sought to strengthen the UN Humanitarian Country Team’s support to mitigating the effects of the drought, as requested by the Vice Ministry of Civil Defense under the Ministry of Defense (VIDECI) of Bolivia.A technical experts has been deployed and advised VIDECI on the implementation of public investment projects for deep well water extraction. These projects are required to meet humanitarian needs caused by the drought, including the loss of crops and associated negative impacts such as malnutrition, diseases linked to water scarcity, loss of livestock and occurrence of forest fires.
Organic African Eel 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. To set up a 200 tons innovative semi-natural organic African eel pond farm for export.
Subnational WASH Sector Coordinator UNICEF Syria The Subnational WASH Sector Coordinator UNICEF Syria – Cluster coordination with the surge in response needs to support:•	The appraisal and reinforcement of the sub national level sector information management capacity, including service mapping specifically for Al Hol Internal Displaced People camp, NES WASH Service mapping 2021, review and refining of existing mapping tools and formats;•	The National WASH Sector coordinator on operationalisation of the National Sector Coordination Terms of Reference (ToR) at the subnational level;•	The development of subnational support plan for the operationalisation of accountability to affected populations (AAP) and monitoring of the WASH response;•	The coordination, planning and implementation of emergency humanitarian WASH sector interventions;•	The facilitation of session(s) to subsector partners on Humanitarian WASH coordination.
Scoping Mission The Philippines (DRR14PH06) A team of Dutch experts, together with the NGOs NL Red Cross, Wetlands International and Cordaid, provided advice to the Philippine government on coastal protection and disaster risk reduction around the city of Tacloban.
Scoping Mission Mexico (DRR14MX15) Experts were sent out by DRR-Team to advise on integrated water resource management and flood relief management around Tabasco, Mexico.
Tissue Culture Morocco 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. To establish the first tissue culture young plant laboratory in Morocco to supply local growers with, eventually 2,000,000 high quality young plants per year, from a broad assortment, offering an alternative for expensive and unreliable import of young plants and seeds and to develop export of these plants.
Port and Freight Study The National port and freight study addresses the current challenges faced by the regional economies of Mozambique and hinterland countries (mainly: Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, and eSwatini), that demand efficient transport services for goods and services for key economic sectors in the country, such as the agri-food & nutrition and the extractive sector. The results of the project provide a clear pathway to empower the role of the current Mozambican ports, in particular through the main corridors: Maputo, Beira, and Nacala. The project also identifies opportunities to increase competitiveness of the Mozambican transport corridors, which in turn would improve the competitive position of the Mozambican ports and thus increase cargo volumes and corresponding economic growth and employment opportunities. Besides, the study also defines opportunities to improve the cabotage system that will enable efficient North-South transport of cargo and passengers along the Mozambican coast. This would especially be beneficial for coastal communities away from one of the main seaports (Maputo, Beira, Nacala, and Pemba). These communities often face issues such as a lack of market access, low availability of goods, high transport costs and corresponding prices. The results of the study summarize the assessment of Mozambique’s port and maritime sector and provides a strategic vision for the development of the sector. This analysis has been undertaken by Royal HaskoningDHV on behalf of The Dutch government for the Mozambican Ministry of Transport and Communication to support development of the maritime sector.
Business Pilot for Responsible ASM gold Mauritania has a unique emerging artisinal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector. Gold was discovered in 2015 and it is estimated that 50,000 miners are currently involved in the Mauritanian mining sector. However, the sector is yet completely informal and lacks access to training, equipment and finance. Miners and forgerons, a craft which is prevalent in and unique to the Mauritanian mineral sector, rely on inefficient processing methods emitting large quantities of mercury, affecting human health and the environment. As a result, supply chain transparency is very difficult to achieve. The sector is also vulnerable to intrusion from insurgent groups in the Sahel region.
Indonesia Healthy River Challenge The Indonesia Healthy Rivers Challenge is a competition for Indonesian students and young professionals. In the context of the bilateral collaboration between Indonesia and the Netherlands on Water, the Challenge aims to (1) educate Indonesia’s future water leaders (students, young professionals) about sustainable river basin management and (2) harness their creativity and independent thinking to generate ideas and solutions for Welang River in East Java Province. These ideas can be incorporated in the Master Plan that will be developed for improvements with regard to flood safety.
Orange Corners Ghana – Consultant This project aims to enable the implementation of the Orange Corners programme in Ghana. The Orange Corners Ghana program will support young entrepreneurs in Ghana by offering an acceleration program that will help them scale up their businesses. As part of this initiative, a consultant will be hired to assist in implementing the program in Accra.
National Water and Sanitation Masterplan of South Africa The Director-General of Water and Sanitation requested in the letter of 15th April 2016 the Netherlands ministry of Infrastructure & Water management to provide strategic and technical assistance on the development of a National Water and Sanitation Master Plan for South Africa (NW&SMP).The South African Government has indicated the NW&SMP as one of the five high priority pillars of its administration and will implement the NW&SMP. This assignment is to assist with the implementation of the NW&SMP. An adaptive and step-by-step approach to develop effective contributions to the implementation process will be applied to be able to anticipate to changing scenes and circumstances.
Orange Corners Morocco – Sportive incubation programme The Sportive Orange Corners Morocco programme strengthens the sports start-up infrastructure in Morocco by offering an incubation programme for 40 young social entrepreneurs in the sports sector.Sportive Orange Corners Morocco enables them to create new innovative businesses and social enterprises. At least 50% of these social entrepreneurs will be women, thereby supporting equal opportunities for women.The incubatees can collaborate with like-minded individuals to start and grow their sport-related businesses. The incubation programme offers training, business development support, masterclasses, events, coaching and mentoring sessions. It focuses on entrepreneurs in Casablanca and Rabat.Through collaboration between the private and public sectors, Orange Corners combines forces to contribute towards the economic growth of Morocco and strengthen the Moroccan start-up ecosystem.
Demonstration project by TUX mobility in India TUX is an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) based in Breda and was founded in 2020. TUX has developed a three-wheeled urban vehicle, known as the electric solar rickshaw, for last-mile freight transport. This vehicle is powered by solar energy via the integrated sunroof.In India, TUX wants to demonstrate that its solar tuk-tuk has a cheaper total cost of ownership (TCO) and a better return on investment (ROI) in the Indian setting compared to normal electric tuk-tuks. TUX wants to guarantee that the range and uptime are not inferior to the competition.
Tailor-made Greenhouses for Ghana This ‘Impact Cluster Tailor-made Greenhouses for Ghana’ subsidy project will:•	Enable knowledge development related to the local circumstances;•	Implement this knowledge through training, consultancy and start of new (greenhouse) projects;•	Bridging the knowledge gap between open field production and protected horticulture;•	Strengthen the (income) position of the small and medium producers in Ghana by more efficient or higher production and contribute to the food safety and security in Ghana;•	Increasing the sustainability of vegetable cultivation in Ghana by providing concepts that make efficient use of the scarce input factors such as water, plant protection products and fertilizers and are organic based in their crop protection;•	Develop a process for transferring knowledge about this concept to the Ghanaian horticulture sector, creating a lasting knowledge infrastructure.The impact cluster will assure the availability of greenhouses and input (seed and biological pest management) suitable for the Ghanaian context and ensure training and guidance that make investments in protected horticulture profitable. To accomplish this objective, a Demonstration, Training and Research Center (DTRC) will be established, with a specific emphasis on the three tiers of the market (rudimentary local greenhouses, tunnels, and multispan structures).