“A holistic approach is necessary to strengthen and develop the capacities of the organizations and actors to improve the competitiveness of the African cashew sector.”
Member of the African Cashew Alliance
ComCashew in collaboration with its public and private partners supported the development of national business associations and stakeholder platforms, national public and private extension services as well as national governmental actors to strengthen their capacity in the cashew sector. Apart from that, the initiative has supported the African Cashew Alliance (ACA) in growing from a stakeholder platform into a business association. Today the ACA has over 180 paying members and continues to host the annual ACA Cashew Conference and Expo – one of the main platforms for the international cashew sector.
On national level, ComCashew in its current phase focuses on the support to the development and update of national cashew sector strategies in the 6 project countries, including the integration of climate adaptation aspects, as well as policy advice to other cashew producing countries such as Togo, Sierra Leone and Cameroun. Another focus of our work is to enhance knowledge management and exchange between all private and public partners in our project countries, on national and supranational level. Public partner will be advised on developing and implementing supportive sectoral policies, on strengthening the inter-ministerial exchange in the countries involved in the project, and on an exchange between the governments of the producer countries.
In this matter, ComCashew: