Quality specification sheets are developed and provided to industry, particularly exporters to support various market development initiatives. ASNAPP also provides expertise and scientific analysis support and works with relevant state institutions and key industry players to develop international trade standards. It provides training at the national level to industry practitioners on topical quality requirements in the marketplace.
The Programs seek to provide business consulting services to the seed and vegetable subsector businesses in Ghana by maximizing their chance of business viability and success, in order to grow in their industry. The Incubator Program helps new and existing agribusinesses take their company to the next level through our varied business experience, proven methodologies, and access to resources that address the needs of agribusinesses.
It solicits and receives market enquiries, secure orders and works with a network of suppliers, agents, brokers and the private sector companies to fulfil these orders. As part of market development effort, ASNAPP performs quality checks, builds the capacity of suppliers to meet buyer's specifications and ensure buyers pay for goods supplied. Where necessary, ASNAPP actively engages in the export of certain commodities.
Agribusiness in Sustainable Natural African Plant Products is an International NGO established in 1999 with the aim to reduce poverty and hunger in rural communities in Africa through sustainable production, harvesting and marketing of African indigenous plant products.
ASNAPP's mandates includes networking institutional capacities; linking African indigenous plant knowledge to scientific research and technology transfer, quality control and quality assurance, product development, enterprise development and markets.
Provision of Technical and Advisory Services for the monitoring and Evaluation of GEXIM funded Projects.
This was a consultancy assignment that performed the following tasks;
Agribusiness in Sustainable Natural African Plant Products (ASNAPP) was a USAID co-funded program established in 1999 to help develop the natural products sector in Africa by promoting income-generating activities for rural entrepreneurs in a way that improves the livelihoods of rural communities. The programs included herbal teas, spices, medicinal plants and plant butters which are grown, harvested and sold by rural producers globally.
The Program was jointly developed and implemented by these organisations. The development and implementation of the program was based on the organizations’ belief that, the concerted action of forest sector actors will achieve greater impact in the promotion of sustainable forest management than any individual effort could. Under the programmatic approach, the partnership worked in three clusters namely: Certification, Non- Timber Forest Products and Governance Clusters.
SOPMEP was a UNDP funded cross-border programme implemented in Ghana and Burkina Faso with spillovers in Niger, Mali and Benin. It was an onion productivity and market expansion programme designed to reduce poverty and improve food security in the two countries.
SIPMA is market-led agricultural transformation programme funded by AGRA that sought to attract both public and private sector investment, build systems (seed/fertilizer, finance, and market) that improve access and drive sustainability in the maize and soy value chain.
The agricultural vocation in the country had been declining as most of the formal institutes providing vocational training in agriculture had been converted into tertiary institutes leaving a gap for hands-on training in agricultural vocational training.
