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200290 - UNIDO / PG 770 - STDF: Use of digital tools to improve compliance with food safety standards in West Africa

Leveraging the challenges and opportunities arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, this project aims to use digital tools to improve compliance with food safety standards. It will adopt an innovative approach by employing digital technologies and hybrid methods in the accreditation, conformity assessment, and capacity-building processes carried out by the West African Accreditation System (SOAC). .

Improve market access for UEMOA countries and the Republic of Guinea by adhering to key food safety standards and using digital tools .

Beneficiaries

  • Bénin
  • Burkina Faso
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Guinée
  • Guinée-Bissau
  • Niger
  • Mali
  • Sénégal
  • Togo
SOAC - 200290 - UNIDO / PG 770 - STDF: Use of digital tools to improve compliance with food safety standards in West Africa

Objective

To improve compliance by WAEMU countries and the Republic of Guinea with key food safety standards using digital tools.

Duration

The project duration is three (3) years.

Project page on the STDF website

Use of digital tools to improve compliance with food safety standards in West Africa

Accreditation & Digitization SOAC Project STDF UNIDO

Project steering committee members

Board of Directors of SOAC, the UEMOA accreditation body

M. Aboubacry BARO

  • SENEGAL

Président

Mme Afi AFAWOUBO

  • TOGO

Vice-President

M. Jean Jacques YADELIN

  • BENIN

Member

M. Idrissa KABORE

  • BURKINA FASO

Member

Mme Olga KOUASSI

  • CÔTE D’IVOIRE

Member

M. Mamadu Saliu BA

  • GUINEE BISSAU

Member

M. Aylton Fernandes CRATO CA

  • GUINEE BISSAU

Member

M. Hamadou TRAORE

  • MALI

Member

M. Zakari Oumarou ABDOUL KADER

  • NIGER

Member

Commission de l'UEMOA

  • Represented by Mr. Oussou Inadège KOUAME within the framework of the project

Member

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Partner institutions

M. Koffivi LAKOUSSAN

  • CEDEAO (ECOCONF)

Member

Mme Nydiane Razafindrahaingo

  • STDF

Member

M. Bernard BAU

  • ONUDI (Committee Secretariat)

Member

West African SPS and Accreditation Dialogue Platform

Strengthen collaboration between SOAC and the SPS bodies of UEMOA member states and Guinea, in order to enhance the effectiveness of safety controls for food that is locally consumed or exported.

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