Finetuning people  procedures  and practices to kickstart Asetenapa as a collectively owned business ASETENAPA is a young Ghanaian cocoa cooperative of which the 325 members are experienced in cocoa production but whose leaders and management have yet to gain experience and adequate competences in coop leadership and professional management. Agriterra and Tonys Chocolonely will assist ASETENAPA to set systems  procedures  plans and managerial practices in place and accompany the kickstart of this promising cooperative towards a members oriented and reliable cocoa suplying cooperative. Within this project Agriterra and Tonyrsquo;s Chocolonely will work as partners  for the duration of the project  in professionalising the Asetenapa Farmers Cooperative. The aim is to achieve a sustainable supply of cocoa beans towards Tonyrsquo;s Chocolonely under their sourcing principles through the improvement of the functioning of the Asetenapa Farmers Cooperative.Agriterrarsquo;s role will be to train  advice and accompany the cooperative to strengthen its capacities towards becoming a professional business-oriented cooperatives. In the relationship between Tonyrsquo;s Chocolonely and Asetenapa  Agriterra will merely adopt a facilitating role  enhancing clarity of the agreements  feasibility of the terms and fairness for both parties. By combining their competences related to organisational strengthening and market development  Agriterra and Tonyrsquo;s Chocolonely will work on shared value creation in which the farm-firm relations are strengthened in mutual interest of the potential business partners. This will be a win-win situation  for both Tonyrsquo;s Chocolonely as well as Asetenapa and their farmer members. The 2020 key target for the cooperative is to gain experience amp; reach a break-even point in its commercial activities. Tonyrsquo;s Chocolonely is growing and wants to source more beans from farmer cooperatives in Ghana and Ivory Coast based on their five sourcing principles. Tonyrsquo;s Chocolonely therefore wants to develop partnerships with more farmer cooperatives. For Ghana it has proposed a two-tier strategy  namely 1) new partnerships with reasonably developed existing Fairtrade certified farmer cooperatives  and 2) partner with a limited developed non-Fairtrade farmer cooperative. Reasoning for the second approach is to showcase that the five sourcing principles of Tonyrsquo;s Chocolonely can create serious and measurable impact in creating strong farmers and cooperatives.For the second strategy the Asetunapa Cooperative has been approached. This cooperative consists of a group of approximately 300 farmers that split in 2018 from the Suhum Farmers Union. The cooperative has recently formally registered itself and made agreements with Tonyrsquo;s Chocolonely to become Fairtrade Certified before the end of 2019. The believe is that this cooperative can develop in a strong farmer based organization and comply to the five sourcing principles within a reasonable period of time  thereby becoming a key sourcing partner of Tonyrsquo;s Chocolonely.Tonyrsquo;s Chocolonely and Agriterra share the mutual interest to develop a strategic approach on how to support this cooperative in order for it to become a showcase for developing a business minded farmer cooperative through a bottom-up approach where the members feel a strong sense of ownership and are united as business partners to create economic benefits for their individual farming business. This approach should touch upon the current challenge with cocoa cooperatives in Ghana  which seems to hinder further development of cocoa farmers.For the period of the project  the partners aim to reach the following objectives:Ensure that a minimum of 100 MT is delivered to Tonyrsquo;s Chocolonely before the end of March 2020 based on Tonyrsquo;s Chocolonelyrsquo;s standards and traceability requirements.Strengthen the Cooperative Management (in terms of business planning  financial management  governance  marketing and member commitment) in order to make them a viable business partner;Develop a practical strategic plan for Asetenapa which is fully owned by the cooperative.Facilitate inter-cooperative communication and enhance transparency and trust within and between them;Seek synergy and align wherever possible with other relevant stakeholders (e.g. Fairtrade  LBC  etc.) in implementing the project.