Selected Sector and Institutions
Project Design Process
Results to be reached
Summary work plan 2011
Planned Activities (March – July 2011)
Summary Progress report 2010  

Selected Sector and Institutions

The project includes a strong component of institutional support. The national export promotion agency ASEPEX is to be strengthened in its leading role in export support by following an approach of learning by doing. On the other hand, the project will support the newly created Coopérative Fédérative des Acteurs de l’Horticulture au Sénégal (CFAHS) to develop support services that meet the needs of different actors along the value chain and to enable the CFAHS to become a central structure to coordinate and streamline support to the mango sector.

Finally, the project focuses on providing technical assistance and encourages partnerships with other donors and other development partners and institutions involved in the process of exporting mango to ensure linkages and synergies.   

Project Design Process

The identification mission undertook in December 2009 explored institutions and sectors that NTF II should focus on. The feasibility mission considered the IT sector and mango sector, and eventually decided to intervene in the mango sector only. The mango was selected jointly with Senegalese authorities who considered it as the sector that would have a significant impact in achieving the MDGs, particularly in relation to poverty alleviation. The feasibility mission, organized in February 2010, enabled ITC and CBI to further analyze the needs of SMEs in the mango sector, to have a more comprehensive overview of technical assistance offered by other partners in the same sector and to assess the institutional set up to support the sector. It appears from this analysis that the Agence Sénégalaise de Promotion des Exportations (ASEPEX) is the key trade support institution for export development and that NTF II would help ASEPEX overcome existing weaknesses. It was also decided that the NTFII would also help strengthen sector specific institutions. The formulation mission, organized in June 2010, enabled to agree with key stakeholders the intervention logic for NTFII.

Joint programming mission with CBI in November 2010 determined coordinated way forward between NTF II and CBI's ongoing BSOD programme with ASEPEX.  BSOD will focus on developing strategy and broader capacity building for ASEPEX. NTF II will focus on specific capacity building related to mango (as well as work with a number of other relevant institutions including the recently founded Coopérative Fédérative des Acteurs de l’Horticulture au Sénégal (CFAHS). Both projects will proceed with reviews every six month to determine whether progress is adequate. The project document is being revised in December 2010 in light of recent new developments and the set up of the new IH, to ensure greater focus on building support services for export development rather than on the institution itself. The project document is to be finalized in January 2011. Activities are to start during the first quarter of 2011. 

Results to be reached

• ASEPEX to focus on export markets and strengthening the competitiveness of the mango in these markets.
• The development of new services by CFAHS in the mango sector by focusing on improving the flow in the value chain. 

Summary Work Plan 2011

Work planning session will be carried out in Q1 2011.

Planned Activities (March – July 2011)

Work planning session will be carried out in Q1 2011.

Summary Progress report 2010