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Country Programme Afghanistan CBI contributes to the sustainable economic development in developing countries through the expansion of exports from these countries. Within the Asian region, Afghanistan has been prioritized as a focus country. The two sectors Natural Ingredients (henceforth NI) and Home Decoration/Home Textiles (henceforth HDHT) have been identified as the best match for receiving CBI support through programme intervention. These sectors offer good opportunities in creating synergy with the most important stakeholder initiatives currently taking place within the field of private sector development, especially those aimed at ameliorating sector specificproblems which can lead to an increased export turnover to [@Description]both the region and Europe. Afghanistan demonstrates a heightened level of complexity that must be approached diligently.



In this context, the CBI has designed a country program which will be implemented between 2013-17. The program is also designed to adequately adjust to the ever changing political and security situation in the country,  especially that leading up to  ISAFS withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014. ln program incorporates two Export Coaching Programs (ECP) and will run concomitantly with a Business Support Organisational Development (BSOD) aiming to support the institutional capacity building of the Export Promotion Agency of Afghanistan (EPAA). Where possible, the CBI will aim to create synergy with other important stakeholder initiativesincluding CBls Asia regional programs. Further, the program aims to provide a  lasting impact on poverty reduction through employment and income generation and better integrated supply chains leading to improved labour practice and more sustainable production in both sectors.



Why Natural Ingredients (NI) and Home Decoration & Home Textiles [HDHT]?

The textiles and agriculture sector are among eight of the most promising export sectors for Afghanistan. These sectors have traditionally been part of the countrys main exports earnings contributing largely to the countrys overall economy and GDP. HDHT and NI sectors have further been chosen as they have a demonstrated potential for increased exports given the intervention methodologies of the CBI. According to recent stakeholder meetings in the country, multi-stakeholder initiatives focus predominantly on structural issues and do not adequately address the numerous restraints faced by most SMEs. The most salient restraints being insufficient access to market intelligence and knowledge of EU market access requirements. This gives CBI a unique proposition to address those requirements specifically needed by SMEs while complimenting and building synergy with other important stakeholder initiatives. Lastly, due to the geographic expansion of these sectors, proper intervention can provide a spread of employment opportunities, especially for women, and

 livelihood support to thousands of households particularly in remote and rural areas.
Senegal Fish The Fish and Seafood programme aims to bring the fish exporting sector of Senegal together to improve the sustainability of the value chain with a focus on fish exported to Europe. While assisting exporting companies to enter the European market with improved, certified products the obstacles in the value chain will become even more clear and through a locally led sector platform these obstacles will be addressed. The platform will be facilitated by CBI and it is expected that specific initiatives from the platform will be supported by other donors. As fish resources are depleting in Senegal the focus of the programme will be on increased value for each captured product including less waste and improved working conditions in the chain. To ensure all actors in the sector are connected a community will be build around the export of fish to the EU (both on and offline). The programme has a duration of 5 years and will target 10 small and medium enterprises. The programme supports and collaborates directly with 2 business associations and 2 government agencies and indirectly with all relevant stakeholders in the sector.
Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI), 2019 - 2025 CBI, the Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries, contributes to sustainable and inclusive economic development in developing countries through the expansion of exports from these countries to Europe. CBI supports producers and exporters to get a foothold in the market in Europe, Business Support Organisations in improving their capabilities and to act as a matchmaker between suppliers and buyers. The projects under this programme are implemented in the period 2019 - 2024.
HDHT East Africa & Madagascar This Home Decoration and Home Textiles Programme (‘Design for Development’) supports 19 SMEs from four countries: Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania and Uganda. The goal is to contribute to sustainable economic development of the HD/HT sector in East Africa through the expansion of export from these countries. East Africa is one of the most important crafts producing regions on the African continent. Its geographical location has made it a melting pot of different cultures, resulting in a rich diversity of crafts skills and products. The crafts sector has a huge economic potential for countries in the region. It creates desperately needed jobs in rural and peri-urban areas and adds value to local raw materials. Besides generating export earnings, it can also contribute to import substitution by providing locally produced alternatives to imported products. The CBI program focusses on export management, quality, reliability and capacity building. CBI experts provide technical assistance to companies in the development of their export marketing plans and in product development. Products range from woven bags to knitwear, vases, candle holders ,basketry, wood and bone products, towels, blankets and more. Companies involved in the programme have participated in several trade fairs, for example Maison et Objet in Paris and Ambiente and Heimtextil in Frankfurt. The topics of "Sustainability" and "Ethical Trade" are becoming increasingly important in the sector. In order to better communicate how these topics are addressed by the participating companies, CBI developed a “Pop-Up Exhibition” which is showcased at different trade fairs.  It offers participants an additional Market Entry tool that showcases their collections. In order to give the companies access to the regional market, CBI initiated SOURCE East Africa, a professional business-to-business trade fair for home décor, fashion accessories and gifts in Tanzania. CBI decided to collaborate with the World Fair Trade Organisation, USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub and Trade Mark East Africa. SOURCE East Africa is the first of such a fair in the region and aims to give producers and buyers a platform to trade products produced in the region. The first edition of the event took place in Arusha from the 23rd – 25th September 2016 and has been a big success.
Ethiopia Tourism The overall aim of the project is to contribute to the sustainable economic development in Ethiopia through the strengthening of the tourism value chain and the expansion of exports to EU Markets. After the project the Ethiopian tourism sector is capable of grasping the existing opportunities for further growth on EU markets. The essence of the project is to speed up the increase in leisure tourism from generating EU markets while laying the foundations for a sustainable and durable sector. The Value Chain Analysis indicates that overall levels of sustainability have to be increased for the destination Ethiopia to become more / remain to be interesting for the EU travel trade. In cooperation with Travelife, Greentour and MVO NL (Corporate Social Responsibility Netherlands), CBI will work on sustainability training and establishing Codes of Conduct. The project is carried out in cooperation with PUM Senior Experts. Their strength lies among other things in working with local suppliers in increasing their quality of service. As the strengths of CBI are centred around market linkage issues, PUM and CBI are able to provide complementary services in order to cover a larger part of the value chain. The interventions of the project consists of a further professionalism of the tourism sector, support to overall adoption of sustainability practices, an increased collaboration and coordination among the various stakeholders, an increase and diversification of the product offer to EU markets and an increase of the visibility of the Ethiopian product offer in EU source markets. This is a project with a duration of 5 years and will target 25 Small and Medium-sized enterprises. It includes support to and collaboration with 3 Business Support Organisations.
Cut Flowers Ethiopia This project supports 11 cut flower farms (mainly roses)  that are located in Holeta/Sebeta (5), Debre Zeit (4), Welkite (1) and Bahir Dar (1). The objective of the project is to generate more value from the roses sent to Europe as well as improving the working conditions for the farm workers. Within the project, the participating companies are supported in four different, but connected fields of expertise.



1.	Export Marketing

Farms are coached in selecting the right markets and sales channel(s), selecting the right varieties and understanding and complying with customer requirements.



2.	Post-Harvest

Post-Harvest support is provided in order to improve cold chain management as well as post-harvest management. This should result in improved compliance with customer and market requirements.



3.	HRM / Supervision skills

Middle managers are trained in improving their supervision skills regarding crop specialists in the greenhouse and in the pack house. If you want to grow your business, you need to grow your people.



4.	CSR

CBI’s assistance in the field of CSR focuses on three areas:

a.	Improving sanitation and hygiene situation at the farm

b.	Implementing proper policies and procedures

c.	Improving the functioning of farm committees
Sustainable Food Ingredients For targeted countries - Indonesia, Vietnam and The Philippines - the agricultural sector is still of major importance in both its contribution to the overall economy and GDP. Moreover, the agricultural sector is also still by far the largest provider of employment opportunities in all three countries. All three countries increasingly face heavy competition, however, from the fast growing ASEAN East Asian countries who have contrary to Vietnam, Indonesia and The Philippines been able to make the shift to value added produce, capitalizing on opportunities in strong growing markets like that of the European Union. The global Food and Beverage industry is one of the major contributors to growth of all economies and has historically witnessed consistent growth. The industry is expected to increase at a yearly 3.5 per cent rate to Euro 5.3 trillion by 2014 . The EU is the key player in global trade, being the worlds largest exporter and importer of food and beverage products worldwide. It is also one of the leading markets for the strong new trends in the Food and Beverage industry, sustainable and health & wellness produce. Both markets show bright futures for the Southeast Asian exporters, with the search for healthy, exotic and natural food ingredients. 



Quality and standards issues are hampering Southeast Asian exporters in their efforts to enter the European market. Exporters are not sufficiently aware of the stringent European Market Access Requirements. Furthermore, the exporters do not hold nor find sufficiently knowledge on export marketing to the European Union nor do they have access to relevant trade networks. Leaving them unable to successfully strategize on the opportunities that lie ahead of them. With its 40 years of success in coaching SMEs in the Food Ingredients sector towards the European Union, CBI can play an important role in bringing the Southeast Asian exporters to the European market. The Sustainable Food Ingredients programme for Southeast Asia therewith also addresses the goals set by the Dutch Ministry for Food Security as part of the Millennium Development Goals. By focussing on the export readiness of SMEs, market entry, the creation of trade networks, improvement of standard implementation and quality as well as the enhancement of the export marketing service industry
Senegal IT This is a parallel project to the Netherlands Trust Fund (NTF) Programme, which is implemented by the Interantional Trade Centre (ITC) in Geneva. The project provides direct technical support to 7 companies for which growth in export as well as growth in number of jobs is expected. The CBI coaching focusses on facilitating market entry into the European market. Also the project aims to work on an improved image of the IT sector in Senegal within the framework of the Senegal IT BPO export strategy, which will help companies to have better access to foreign markets. Furthermore, it works on improved access to services which can lead to an improved access to the market and a growth in revenue for exporting IT- companies. The supported partner is expected to develop and implement new services aimed at exporting IT-companies.
Cocoa Mano River Union This project aims to develop an inclusive and sustainable cocoa value chain in Sierra Leone and Liberia, in order to connect Sierra Leonean and Liberian cocoa exporters with European importers of cocoa, in close collaboration with ITC in the framework of the Netherlands Trust Fund Programme (NTF).
Sustainable Tourism Export Development Asia Tourism is the fastest growing industry in the world. The number of international arrivals grew from 25 million in 1950 to 1 billion in 2012, and is expected to further increase annually by 3.3% until 2030. This represents 43 million more international tourist arrivals every year, reaching a total of 1.8 billion arrivals by 2030. Tourism exports account for as much as 30% of the worlds exports of commercial services - 6% of the overall exports of goods and services. In 2011, the exports from tourism totalled US$ 1.2 trillion, up from US$ 928 billion in 2010 (+3.9% in real terms), setting new records in most destinations despite economic challenges in many source markets like Europe. 



Asia Pacific accounts for 22% of the world share of tourist arrivals. For the first time ever, inbound tourism arrivals in Asia and the Pacific surpassed 200 million in 2010. The relative share of inbound tourist arrivals in Asia-Pacific is expected to continue to grow in a much faster rate than in any other regions in the world. Growth trend scenarios by the United World Tourism Organization predict that in 2030, Asia-Pacific will receive approximately 500 million tourists, comprising then a third of all international tourist arrivals  nearly equal to the market share of Europe.



In spite of these impressive growth figures, sustainability remains a critical bottleneck of the sector. The explosive growth of the sector has often been haphazard. Unplanned and unregulated developments often came at considerable economic, socio-cultural and environmental costs, such as pollution, inflation of local economies, resource shortages (water), commodification of local cultures etc. Sustainable development principles need to be promoted and integrated into business development models in order to safeguard the long term profitability of the sector. There is a clear need for an integrated tourism development approach that links poverty reduction with sustainability. 



Europe is currently still the worlds largest source region, generating over half of the international arrivals worldwide. Despite the continuing economic uncertainty in Europe, the number of EU outbound travellers is still growing. Between 2001 and 2011, the outbound markets in Europe have shown a continuous growth of 2-2.5% annually, and the market is expected to continue to grow. EU tourists are an attractive target group for Asia, either as a focus market, or as part of a market diversification strategy to decrease or spread economic risks. In addition, there is a fast growing regional market, consisting of a fast growing middle and upper class from e.g. China and India that tour operators could tap. "
Upgrading garment exporters – Bangladesh The garment sector in Bangladesh has expanded rapidly over the last years and currently consists of some 5000 factories, employing approximately 3.6 million workers, of which 80% women. Bangladesh has become one of the leading sourcing destinations for EU and US buyers mainly because of competitive advantages such as zero import duties, low wages and abundantly available workers with sufficient skills. 



Despite this strong growth in number of companies, garment exports are predominately geared at lower market segments, making the country vulnerable as these segments are extremely price dependent. Not only supply side factors, but also insufficient awareness among European buyers about the developments and diversification of the garment sector in Bangladesh adversely affect current export opportunities into higher market segments.



This situation is further consolidated by a negative reputation of the sector because of allegedly below standard labour conditions, aggravated by safety issues such as regularly occurring fires in factories. The collapse of Rana Plaza on 24 April 2013 with more than 1100 casualties, triggered worldwide attention for the circumstances in the garment sector in Bangladesh. The Netherlands has taken a leading role and has made improving safety and working conditions a policy priority. 



Against this background CBI designed an integrated export programme, largely based on the findings of a value chain analysis and stakeholder meetings carried out in the second half of 2012. Main aim is to assist the Bangladesh garment sector to develop exports into higher segments, to improve its image on the EU market and to contribute to a higher degree of compliance. This is mainly to be achieved  through 1) Providing export coaching and training to a group of around 30 selected companies, 2) Developing an export marketing/branding strategy focussed on improving the image of the Bangladeshi garment sector, 3) Developing/strengthening relevant export services such as EU market information, sourcing expertise, professionalizing trade fair participation. This way associations are better able to serve the companies in the sector and extend the scope of the programme and 4) Paying attention to CSR compliance in close collaboration with other organizations like ILO Better Works and GIZ. "
Ethiopia Leather There are sound opportunities for Leather products from Ethiopia on the European market, however the Leather and Leather Products (LLP) sector does not seem to be able to fully grasp these opportunities. This is caused by issues in the value chain hampering further growth as well by the fact that a more practical approach (towards export) in the leather sector is needed. The ambition of the project is to support the LLP sector and its stakeholders to gain a firm position in the mid and mid high (end) segments on the European market for footwear, handbags and gloves.The added value as well as the uniqueness of this project lies in the fact that CBI’s interventions will be complementary to the interventions of the Green Tanning Initiative, PUM, UNIDO and the Ethiopian government. All initiatives are focused on alleviating mainly CSR obstacles downstream in the value chain and have no or only small-scale activities focused on the export part of the value chain. By adding CBIs expertise to these initiatives the impact of our interventions regarding sector development is expected to be much higher. The emphasis in the project will lay on interventions in the Export Enabling Environment: creating a Public Private sector dialogue and strengthening collaboration amongst the key stakeholders. The Business Export Coaching trajectory will serve two goals. Firstly, experiences and learning trajectory of the involved SMEs in becoming competent for export with sustainable produced leather products (in terms of quality, product offer, buyers’ requirements, sustainable practices, etc) will support the understanding at institutional level on what is needed. The SMEs will therefore have to be involved in the institutional trajectory so lessons learned can be shared and translated by the stakeholders to concrete steps for further sector development. Second goal is to capacitate SMEs to become export ready so that they can showcase to European buyers that more sustainable LLPs can be sourced in Ethiopia.
Upscaling Gift & Living products The Upscaling Gift & Living project focuses on how to take advantage of the large opportunities in the European market for sustainable design. The project is a joined effort between DAWS and CBI with a shared goal: to professionalize producers and traders of Gifts& Living products in Developing Countries where CBI is active to enable these companies to introduce G&L products into the Dutch market in addition to the Fair Trade market. Long term goal is to create a healthy and sustainable business model without full dependency on the Wereldwinkels: DAWS own branded stores. Both project partners will seek cooperation and synergy in matching activities.

 

Project content: the project aims to assist a selection of companies to remove internal obstacles for export to the Dutch market. In addition to that the project will provide the participating companies with a specific Fair Trade label for the Gift and Living products to further enlarge their chances on the Dutch market. Alleviation of the internal company obstacles and the additional value of Second Party monitoring a Fair Trade label will result in the professionalization of the participating companies. This will increase their chances of finding (new) European trading partners and thereby increase their exports. 



During the next four years this project specifically focuses on Fair Trade producers of G&L products in countries where CBI is conducting Craft Programmes from Indonesia, Vietnam, South Africa, East African Countries which are supplying to Fair Trade shops. With regard to market entry goals in this project, active matching between buyers and producers is a prerequisite. A budget of  2.805.775 will be needed to perform this assignment."
Uganda IT This is a parallel project to the Netherlands Trust Fund (NTF) Programme, which is implemented by the International Trade Centre (ITC) in Geneva. The project provides direct technical support to 6 companies for which growth in export as well as growth in number of jobs is expected. The CBI coaching focusses on facilitating market entry into the European market. Also the project aims to work on an improved image of the Ugandan IT sector in Europe by bringing the sector together to develop a value proposition. This will help companies to have better access to foreign markets. Furthermore, it works on improved access to services which can lead to an improved access to the market and a growth in revenue for exporting IT- companies. The supported partners are expected to develop and implement 6 improved or new services aimed at exporting IT-companies.
Garments and textiles Guatemala A total of 8 companies take part in this programme covering both brands and private label manufacturing. The companies offer different kinds of products, such as socks, shapeware, products and accessories made of recycled denim fabrics and modern Maya designs.