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GhanaVeg Update
Joep van den BroekProgram Leader
GhanaVeg
• GhanaVeg: to support the private sector in further investing in and innovating Ghana’s vegetable sector.
• Our motto is ‘Healthy and quality vegetables from Ghana through new ways of doing business’.
• The GhanaVeg Business Platform aims to be:– The meeting place for Ghana’s vegetable sector– Setting the agenda for future investments – Preparing strategy and market studies – Driving the public-private dialogue for the vegetable sector.
GhanaVeg focal areas
– High-value domestic market and exports– Commercial vegetable crops: tomato, chili peppers,
bell peppers, onions, Asian vegetables, eggplant, cucumber, squash, melons and spices.
– Private sector: entire chain from input supply to retail and from logistics to private extension.
– At farm level the project focuses on: the commercial smallholder farmer, the small investor farmers as well as large-scale farming (with outgrowers).
– 2014-2017 period
Structure and activity framework
GhanaVeg Business Platform
Business to BusinessActivities
Business Opportunities
Fund
R&D Innovation
Fund
Consultancy Fund
Public-Private Dialogue
GhanaVeg Secretariat
Consultancy Fund
• Provides studies for business opportunities and bottlenecks in the business climate
• Results are: Business cases and recommendations for the Public-Private Dialogue
• The Public-Private Dialogue aims to address major issues in the investment climate and horticulture regulations
• Additional support activities could be developed for:– Phytosanitary issues– Pesticides reduction– Statistics on vegetable sector
Business Opportunities Fund
• To support new entrants and frontrunner companies in the vegetables sector
• Organized around thematic calls for proposals based on selected key sector bottlenecks
• Open for Ghanaian and foreign companies• Modality: 50% co-financing, maximum of
€50.000 grant per activity• Independent selection committee assesses
proposals
R&D Innovation Fund
• Aim is to improve the innovation capacity of the sector• By creating collaboration between the private sector and
Ghana’s research institutes• On-site research can be supported for e.g. variety and
fertilizer trials, new irrigation technology or greenhouse designs
• The fund is organized around specific Calls for Proposals• 50% Co-financing, max. €25.000 grant per activity• Agronomic backstopping and upscaling through
Wageningen UR
Call Cycles• Calls are issued every quarter• Four rounds of calls for proposals so far concluded– May 5, 2014– July 7, 2014– September 1, 2014– December 1, 2014
• New procedures implemeted – Intake meetings– Call quality improvements
Call Outcomes• First Call (Chain Integration, Seed Industry, Input Supply)
– 11 applications– 5 shortlisted– 2 awarded (Tikola in Seed Industry, ETL in Chain Integration)
• Second Call (extended for IS and SI)– 4 applications– 3 shortlisted– 2 awarded (Dizengoff in Input Supply, Wienco in Seed Industry)
• Third Call (CI, PC, IS)– 15 applications– 6 shortlisted– 3 awarded (ACSL in Input Supply, Joekopan and 3As in Chain Integration)
• Fourth Call just ended on Dec 1.