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TechDev

Since 2016, the partnership between Fondation Avril and Techdev has focused on the spin-off in Senegal of the technological support for agri-food companies, pre-existing in Mali. Launched in October 2018 in Senegal with the assistance of the NGO Enda-Graf Sahel, the hub operates thanks to a team of four people based in Thiès. Its objective is to support, in the region from Dakar to Thies, 20 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and 20 producer organizations wishing to start processing for the local market, and from 200 to 300 micro-enterprises.

After Mali and Senegal, the Technology Hub spin-off program is to be extended to Burkina Faso and Chad, with the support of AFD (Agence Française de Développement). The Senegal Hub thus participates in a Sahelian dynamic for the sharing and promotion of good practices.

The Dakar-based company Sunu transforms local raw materials into a variety of products distributed predominantly in supermarkets in Senegal: bars of dried food, herbal teas, appetizers, etc. The Dakar Hub-IIT team works with this company to support its development and allow it to move from a manual to a semi-industrial stage.

OUR PARTNER

Tech-Dev is a French international solidarity association engaged in the development of small businesses, local capacity building and implementation of South-South exchanges. Tech-Dev intervenes jointly and in complementarity with its African partners, who are structures supporting the private sector : development NGOs, professional associations, cooperatives, business networks.

OTHER PROJECTS:

Côte d’Ivoire Project

Following the Symposium “Entrepreneurship against malnutrition” organized on November 25 and 26, 2019 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, the Fondation Avril committed to implement, in the field, the proposals presented during this event aimed at strengthening food security and improving nutrition of populations.

“Biodiversity and proteins” project in Southern Togo

As part of a partnership launched in June 2020, AFDI (Association Agriculteurs Français et Développement International) is supporting UROPC-M (Farmers’ Organization of the Maritime Region, in southern Togo) in the diversification and development of three legume crops: pigeon pea, bambara-bean and groundnut.

CIFS professionalization project in Togo

In Togo, the Ministry of Agriculture made an official request to the Fondation Avril and Agropol to support the professionalization of the soybean interprofessional organization, the CIFS (Soybeans Interprofessional Council in Togo).

Symposium « Entreprendre contre la malnutrition »

During Sara (Salon International de l’Agriculture et des Ressources Animales), Fondation Avril organized with a group of institutional and economical partners a conference entitled « Entreprendre contre la malnutrition » on Monday, 25 and Tuesday November 26th 2019 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

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