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Agribusiness entrepreneurs start business acceleration program in Bissau, Cacheu and Bissorã The WACOMP-GB project is implementing, through two IDEA Centers, the National Youth Entrepreneurship Agency (ANEJ) and the non-governmental organization (NGO) Ajuda de Desenvolvimento de Povo para Povo (ADPP), a Business Acceleration Program aimed at participants in the first edition Read more…

As part of the support for selected companies for the implementation of the Resilience and Recovery Program for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Senegal (P2R), a training session on “Tool Development and Digital Marketing” was held on October 2nd and 3rd, 2023, at the UNIDO office in Dakar. This Read more…

In collaboration with the West Africa Competitive Programme – The Gambia (WACOMP-GM), The Gambia Standard Bureau (TGSB) successfully concluded the public engagement on the draft national standards for onion and its related value chain products. The consultations took the form of regional stakeholder meetings, media engagement and open commenting for Read more…

The project embarked on a 2-week long tour to all the project’s beneficiary 120 gardens where the officials assemble the bench weighing scales the project supplied the gardens in April. To ensure proper utilization and longevity of these scales, a training of trainers (ToT) program was conducted for the agricultural Read more…

In August 2023, UNIDO concluded an exciting 5-day workshop on packaging, made possible by the financial support of the European Union in Sierra Leone. This workshop gathered 27 participants from both, the public and private sector, marking a crucial step towards empowering Sierra Leone’s SMEs to bring their packaging practices Read more…

After a successful version in 2022, the UNIDO West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) team in Ghana organized a second international conference on August 2023 in Accra, in partnership with the European Union (EU) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI). The conference held under the theme, “Ghanaian Clusters, A Read more…

The EU-funded project “Improving the competitiveness of the mango value chain in Guinea-Bissau: Production, Local Processing and Export Support”, WACOMP-GB, announced on July 12, 2023, the launch of the innovative financing program, IDEA FIN, a financial mechanism to support nano and microfinance for Entrepreneurs, Micro-enterprises and Cooperatives working in agribusiness Read more…