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Satellite Based Water Monitoring and Flow Forecasting (Development Phase) The project consists of the following elements:- Implementation of the satellite based Energy and Water Balance Monitoring System (EWBMS) which on a daily basis will provide climatic data fields of temperature  radiation evapotranspiration and precipitation- Implementation of the Large Scale Hydrological Model (LSHM) which uses the data from the EWBMS to generate river flow rates and forecasts- Implementation of the Drought Monitoring System (DMS) which will provide meteorological hydrological agricultural and climatological drought information for the entire basin- Testing calibration validation and optimisation of the systems provided- Creation and training of an operational satellite monitoring unit at NBA responsible for operating these systems and diffusing the data and related information products among users in the member countries-Training of users.
Multiple countries - Digital and Financial Inclusion in emerging Markets to MoneyPhone BV With a DGGF Start-up finance Moneyphone BV will be able to scale its business activities, offering access to finance to unbanked people through their digital loan platform in Rwanda, Ukraine and India.
Assessing the feasibility to produce energy from Water hyacinth plants in Sogakope, Ghana Invasive species like the water hyacinth have become a serious threat to global biodiversity and countries like Ghana in particular, as they lack natural enemies and have a reproduction rate of 5 to 15 days. They only stop growing when they run out of resources, wiping out native species, disrupting entire ecosystems, covering a water body in a matter of months and in turn causing major economic and ecological damage and human - and animal suffering. Unmanaged water hyacinth infestations can lead to loss of food and water production, loss of transportation facilities and outbreaks of diseases caused by insects which hide in the plant mass, threatening entire local communities.  Solving that problem needs ongoing and systematic effort which require resources but many countries and governments do not have the funds for a systematic and permanent solution. Dutch company Millennium Bio Energy (MBE) has developed a circular solution using Anaerobic Digestion (AD) of biomass that addresses both the problem of systematically removing the water weed as well as the problem of financing. MBE maintains the water ways and produces value from the biowaste with which the cost of maintenance is more than covered. More importantly, these AD products can be converted into heat, electricity, gas, CO2, fibers and fertilisers, offering a circular solution for other problems countries like Ghana are facing.To prepare for future investments in a pilot installation in Sogakope, Ghana, Technical Assistance (DGGF) provided support for a technical and financial feasibility study. This included a pre-project part in which the critical conditions for a successful pilot are tested: the location on which a pilot can be built, construction criteria are analysed, a customer for the energy is found, legal and regulatory conditions are validated and a local partner is found with whom MBE can operate legally in Ghana. The project was successful and resulted in the selection of a suitable location in the Lower Volta River, customer acquisition, partner selection and formal permission from the ministry of Environment to extract the water hyacinth biomass. Further investments in a pilot powerplant are currently being prepared and is expected to open mid-2020. When the pilot proves successful, upscaling the powerplant has the potential to supply over 1,000,000 people with energy, create 800 jobs and provide an income stream for the country whilst protecting its ecosystems and local water communities and reducing emissions.
Hlaing Thar Waste Water Management project This project aims at developing a wastewater management system to prevent pollution of the Pan Hlaing River by industrial wastewater. Hlaing Thar Yar industrial zone and Mya Sein Yaung industrial zone are located north of the Pan Hlaing River. Several companies in the industrial zones discharge insufficiently treated or untreated wastewater in the drainage system, which transports it into the Pan Hlaing River.
India - Production of tempeh With a Start-up loan from the DGGF Community Food Systems and Services B.V. (CFSS) will be able to produce tempeh in India together with their local daughter.
They will invest in machinery and tools, operational costs, buildings, transport and inventory. 
The estimated impact on local employment is the creation of approx. 52 local jobs and knowledge transfer to local soy farmers: production methods, good agricultural practices, amongst others.
Peru - Cultivation of amaryllis bulbs The Dutch company started in 2015 the cultivation of amaryllis flower bulbs in order to meet the growing demand. To expand the business further and to improve the production, investments are needed. DGGF supports this investment by providing a loan. The project contributes to direct and indirect employment (12 FTEs employed and 100 seasonal workers). Because the cultivation of Amaryllis is new in the area to be produced, there is a lot of attention to knowledge transfer.
ZigZag Solar: Illuminating India In large Indian cities like Chenai and Bangalore consistent supply of electricity is often challenged by power black-outs and heavy rainfall, leading to the use of improvised and often dangerous and polluting energy sources in Indian households such as batteries, coal and motorised energy generation. Wallvision developed an innovative architectural façade technology to harvest solar power called ZigZagsolar. It vertically installs solar panels and enables the use of facades and walls of buildings for solar energy generation. In order to introduce ZigZagSolar to the Indian market and to prepare for future investments, Technical Assistance (DGGF-TA) provides support for a pilot project in India to demonstrate the facades. The project includes developing a supply chain, identifying suppliers, distributors, agents and installers and the development a profit model. Although the key objective of the project is to validate and introduce the technology in the Indian market, the project currently already supports 3 direct jobs and 20 indirect jobs. Upon successful validation, further investments in the set-up of a local subsidiary, R&D centre and local manufacturing will be explored and will contribute to the development of unique skills, knowledge transfer and new jobs for the Indian market. Furthermore the project aims to contribute to a greener world and to transform India by curbing black outs, reducing the use of dangerous and unsustainable energy sources, contributing to electrification and cleaner air in the country.
Pre-financed Water Projects for Irrigation and Consumption to help improve local economy SGG Projecten B.V. pre-finances water projects, both for consumption as well as for irrigation of vegetable gardens in the Gambia. Projects are contracted with our clients: locally organized groups or village communities. SGG surveys, plans, and manages the project until it is finished, as well as water flows. After water starts flowing, the projects turn into a financial service. The local communities then start repaying over the course of several years, causing a sustainable business model and local employment. 6 direct and 6 indirect jobs were provided during the course of this DGGF-TA. Irrigation of vegetable gardens lead to fertile lands where 90 women are producing crops for consumption.
Uganda - Fiber Foods Fiber Foods offers dried jackfruit fibers from East Africa to the vegetarian food industry in the Netherlands, who use the dried jackfruit as a natural fiber to make their vegetarian products healthier and tastier. Currently they use textured soy bean or peas, which gives the balls or burgers a sticky bite and on top of that the texturization of soybean is an energy draining process. Fiber Foods has built a value chain in East Africa, where the jackfruit is harvested and processed with the aim to create opportunities for women. The company wants to further professionalize and scale-up in Uganda. By thoroughly testing and tweaking a production line for the processing of the jackfruit a final production line will make the processing more efficient and form a basis for the business case on what to build in a new factory. This all is needed to be able to keep production up with the growing demand.
La Paz Water Efficiency & Early Warning Project The larger La Paz Water Efficiency & Early Warning Project is subdivided into two sub-projects:- Sub-project A; Reduction of Non-revenue water and Early warning system, and- Sub-project B; Rehabilitation and expansion of the Pampahasi water treatment plant.The overall objective of the larger project is to ensure a permanent, sufficient and good quality supply of water by an organization (EPSAS) that is able to fully cope with the increasing demand for water and that supplies the necessary trust for water related private sector development. Sub-Project B entails the rehabilitation and expansion of the treatment capacity of the Pampahasi Plant from 700 l/sec to 1200 l/sec.
Nyaungdone infrastructural flood protection (ESIA) Located at the bifurcation of several rivers, the city of Nyaungdone is prone to flooding. In addition, bank erosion is threatening two nearby bridges (Bomvathun bridge and Ayeyarwady bridge). Given the river dynamics, it is uncertain whether the measures taken by the local government to stabilise the bridges and protect the city will suffice in the long term. This project finances studies that will assess the sustainability of the current structures, provide a thorough hydraulic and morphological analysis and help policy making and planning to allow for additional measures. RVO works closely together with the Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems (DWIR) of the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Beira Port Access Road, Mozambique The project relates to the development and implementation of a new port access road, to be constructed in the Mozambique city of Beira. This project is part of the Masterplan Beira 2035, which has been established with help from the Partners for Water Programme, which is executed by RVO, in order to encourage sustainable development in Beira. Amongst other things, the Masterplan involves developing the port and a residential area with social housing, regulating water management and raising the swamp which is located on the outskirts of Beira. The construction of the road has been labelled as one of the priorities in the Masterplan. Within the framework of the Masterplan, the construction of the road has been labelled a 'no regret project', implying that the project will make a contribution to the sustainable development of the city and does not run counter to Beira's long-term vision.
Trade for Change This Side Up (TSU) is the orchestrator of a worldwide coffee growing and roasting community, brought together by the vision of coffee trade based on human values instead of money. By making the value chain fully transparent (including themselves) from bean to cup, TSU aims to redistribute wealth back to the farmers in an equal and cooperative fashion. Farmers are in direct contact with roasters in Europe gaining leading to a higher price for coffee and more control of their own product. With DGGF-TA, TSU was able to pre-finance coffee imports from longstanding partnerships in Colombia, DR Congo and Rwanda. 733 farmers were supported with this DGGF-TA and 258 were trained in agro-forestry, quality and true cost accounting.
Egypt – Processing (Organic) Peanuts With a DGGF loan Katjang Jerry BV will be able to, together with its partners, expand working capital and production capacity.
Kernile for Trade and Export LLC was established as a joint venture between the Dutch Katjang Group and the Egyptian Growtech SAE. The Katjang group is a producer of roasted and coated nuts, Growtech is an agricultural company and exporter of fleece peanuts, seeds, fertilzers and agrochemicals. Kernile was founded with the support of the PSI program of RVO in 2016. Kernile focuses on the sourcing, processing and supply of peanut products for the European and MENA markets in particular. In addition, Kernile also partially provides work for third parties. The establishment of Kernile has the advantage that Katjang has access to reliable raw materials, for Growtech Kernile gives access to the market in Europe. Due to the results in recent years and the expected growth for the coming years, there is a need for additional expansion of working capital and production capacity. The investment underscores Kernile's strategic orientation to focus on the organic market, the blanched peanut market and food safety. Investment consists of the purchase of the land, building and machinery. The machines in which investments are made include a blanching machine, but also machines to improve food safety and meet the requirements that organic production entails. Through this funding, impact is realized by creating additional employment (+39 jobs in 5 years) and increasing productive power (+ 8,740 MT in 5 years). Indirect impact is the sourcing and training of supplying farmers (+/ 1400) and the production of reliable food.
Validating the cultivation of crickets and the production of cricket Protein Powder the most sustainable and affordable protein in Loc Ninh, Vietnam According to FAO, Food security and climate change are becoming a huge issue. By 2050 the world population will reach 9.5 billion people and food production needs to expand 70% to keep up with this growth which will be hard under the current production system. More efficient and sustainable food sources are required to feed the world and crickets may provide the solution to this as its by-products are rich in protein and believed to be better, cheaper and more sustainable than other  protein sources, such as livestock and salmon.  Cricket One B.V. has developed intensive farming technologies and processes crickets into protein, oil and other high value-added products for the US and EU food and supplement industry for which it  established a processing facility in Vietnam. Increased production will have a positive impact on the environment using sustainable production methods and replacing traditional (animal) protein sources as it uses cassava waste to feed and breed the crickets through micro breeding units planted out at cassava farms. This in turn allows for circular farming and additional income streams for smallholder farmers involved, improving their agricultural practices and more importantly, their livelihoods. To prepare for future investments, Technical Assistance (DGGF-TA) provided support to upscale the activities and increase production and export capacity of premium cricket protein powder.  The project included preparing for international certification with HPPC and obtaining Novel Food Certification, to develop and install breeding stations at different farmers’ sites and to further develop cricket protein isolation for product diversification. The project supported 8 female direct jobs, 10 indirect jobs and enabled knowledge transfer by training 35 people, of which 25 local cassava farmers on producing cricket feed, breeding high quality crickets and circular farming using their cassava waste which enables them to earn up to 5 times higher incomes. Since the project CricketOne has put 3 central farms into operation to secure 40% its raw materials demand and set-up a central processing factory and Cricket One is now becoming one of the largest global suppliers of cricket protein.
Greater Maputo Water Supply Project (Implementation Phase) In the capital town of Maputo the population is growing fast and the city expands mostly on the north-western side. The current Maputo Water Supply System provides water to the Southern areas of Maputo Metropolitan only and there is no public water supply system in the north-western site of the city. In addition to the lack of a public water system raw water resources in the north-western areas are not available.This project concerns the development construction and operation of the Corumana system. This system consists of a raw water intake and transmission system and a drinking water treatment plant with a capacity of 60000 m3  for clear water distribution and  6 main distribution centers. Distribution networks and water connections for domestic public and commercial industrial use. In 2017 when the system becomes operational it will provide drinking water to 365000 people in Maputo. This figure will increase to 550000 people by the year 2022 when the maximum design capacity is reached. The aim of the project is to provide high quality drinking water at a lower price than currently provided by private water suppliers. Furthermore it is aimed to lower the walking distance to the water source. As a result of the project in addition it is expected that companies that rely on a good quality supply of water (such as restaurants and food processing industries) will enter the market.The ORIO project forms a small part of the Greater Maputo Water Supply Expansion Project” (GMWSP), a drinking water project funded by the World Bank which is based on the Master Plan study for Greater Maputo.
Boosting maternal and child health in Wollega (Development Phase) Ethiopia has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the world: 673/100,000. It is estimated that every year about 25,000 mothers die and 400,000 more suffer long-term disabilities due to complications during pregnancy, delivery or post-partum period. The leading causes of death are abortion sepsis hemorrhage and obstructed labour. The majority of these deaths are preventable with affordable interventions. Therefore, health of women and children is an area of major concern in Ethiopia. Wollega, as a sub-region of Oromia, is one of the most deprived sub-regions of Ethiopia. In comparison to other regions it scores low on antenatal care from a skilled provider and new-born delivered in a health facility. The problems in Wollega are demand- and supply side related. Therefore, the project will address both the upgrading of 16 health centres into primary hospitals and by providing B-EmONC services in 100 health centres. On the demand side family planning and Antenatal Care will be addressed. The project will help solve the problem of neonatal- and maternal mortality and probably other diseases in the project area and in surrounding areas by addressing the referral system in the entire Wollega region.
Nicaragua - Prefinancing producer organisations in the coffee supply chain The Progreso Fund provides smaller producer organizations that don’t have access to finance yet or are in early stages of development with small loans for working capital. There is a high demand for these types of loans, because we see a shift to bigger minimum loan sizes from social lenders like Rabo Rural Fund, Oiko Credit, Root Capital etc. leaving a group of cooperatives without funding. Progreso, with long term experience in trade finance and working with smallholders, is willing to fill this gap for loans ranging from USD 15.000 up to USD 100.000. Progreso is working on technical assistance and guides producer organisations in becoming more sustainable businesses. Access to (first) credits is part of this guidance and included in our work. With the development of Beyco, contracts that are signed on the platform can be pre-financed by the Progreso Fund.
Extension of rehabilitation diagnostic services (Implementation Phase) The project is defined as the improvement of diagnostic and surgical services at municipal regional hospitals and tertiary (referral and specialized) hospitals through provision of medical equipment and infrastructure preventive and corrective maintenance training and technical assistance. The project focuses specifically on mother and neonatal care, improvement of emergency services, operating theatres intensive care units high dependence wards patient monitoring and rehabilitation services. The project contributes to:- strengthening the Referral System, making it more efficient and effective at all levels- reducing the lack of specialized services in diagnostics operating theatres and maternity care.
Road-based public transport infrastructure and services (Implementation Phase) A major problem in the city of Cape Town is the inequitable and inefficient urban spatial structure of the city which excludes about one third of the citys inhabitants living in the Metro South East (MSE) from full economic and social participation in society. Khayelitsha is the largest partially informal township in MSE and is reputed to be the largest and fastest growing township. There are several public transportation routes and a train track route available but the radius and its coverage of this infrastructure is totally insufficient. The project is defined as the construction operation and maintenance of a stretch of 6-7km semi-dedicated bus lane from Khayelitsha to the N2 related PTI facilities and the management of these facilities. The facilities consist of transfer stations including facilities for commercial and social services stops and the development of a feeder system. This project is part of a larger Intermodal Transportation Project developing corridors. The project would lead to safe reliable and affordable integrated public transport facilities between Khayelitsha and neighbouring areas such as Philippi on one hand and the city centre on the other.
Preparing the set-up of a Fruit Processing Facility for Kapok Fibre in Indonesia Kapok fibres, also known as Silk Cotton or Java Cotton, is 100% organic, biodegradable and recyclable and can be used as a sustainable alternative to cotton in the Clothing industry. Indonesia delivers the best quality Kapok in the world and is one of the largest producers with 50 million kilograms of fibres per year. The trees flourish in dry soil and barely need water, herewith preventing corrosion and reducing CO2 emissions. Despite these sustainable qualities, the Kapok industry in Indonesia has not innovated in the past 100 years and current production methods and quality of these fibres are not sustainable and are insufficient yet to meet demand from the clothing industry. Dutch company Flocus B.V., with a background in textile engineering and already supplying clothes made of kapok to some of the largest premium clothing brands,  wants to set-up the first environment-friendly sorting facility for Kapok and help revolutionise the industry. To prepare for future investments in a certified Kapok Sorting Facility in Indonesia for the processing of Kapok Fibres, Technical Assistance (DGGF) provided support for a Technical Feasibility Study. The project included assessing the legal set-up of the facility, location selection, a technical study for machine selection and factory lay-out and a supply chain analysis. The project has been successful as has resulted in a viable business plan to attract further investment of the Kapok facility which is expected to open in 2020. Investments in product development for industrial purposes of Kapok and the set-up of a Farm are also being explored and further scale-up activities should take place within 3-5 years. These investments could lead to at least 15-25 direct jobs per facility,  100-500 seasonal jobs during harvest seasons and considerably higher incomes for Kapok farmers in the supply chain. Furthermore, the investments are likely to contribute to the stabilisation of the Kapok market, prevent deforestation and help regenerate entire eco-systems and enable existing industries to become more sustainable.