Capacity Building and Empowerment of Market Intermediaries Clause Samples

Capacity Building and Empowerment of Market Intermediaries. In the third year, the project will continue to work with the six Nestlé aggregators, 15 non-Nestlé aggregators, and 83 commercial warehouse owners on how to maintain good quality grains at collection centers and warehouses as well as on establishing physical standards for grading of grains. Most of these actors are now aware of targeted contaminants and have knowledge about what a standard warehouse should include and proper management practices to mitigate contaminants. Some of the actors still have challenges with poor ventilation, unhygienic environments, poor grain storage practices, and unacceptable relative humidity levels and humidity monitoring. The project will continue with weekly visits to all these groups to see that they adopt the practices that they were trained on and these issues are addressed. A monthly activity plan, which will include topics like warehouse management and quality-based purchase standards, will be jointly established with each group and each month each group will be evaluated against the plan. The activity will also work with aggregators to train their agronomists to cascade the knowledge they receive to farmers, to test grains for contaminants prior to sending to Nestlé for pre-shipment and sharing the results, to promote the investment in color sorting machines, and to map out the various communities that can supply them with high quality grains.