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Summary Annual Report 2008 6
4. Highlights of 2008
Achievements
We have seen results in the practice areas
we focus on - education, health,
energy/biogas, water and sanitation, agriculture,
cotton, livestock, forestry and
tourism. One example is Guinea Bissau,
where SNV helped to create a business
environment for fair exchange exports in
the cashew sector. This enabled producers
to sell a kilogramme of raw cashew nuts
for EUR 0.56/kg instead of the previous
cashew price of EUR 0.23/kg. Sixty-two
producer groups and fifteen processor
units were trained, 130,000 tons of cashew
nuts were exported, and the government
earned about EUR 40,000,000 from
export taxes. Around 250,000 families benefited
directly from this result.
2008, a total of 571,783 children have
been fed, representing 20% of all public
primary school children in the country,
with an increase in enrolment of 12.8%.
From 2009, NGO/CSO will be represented
on the Project Steering Committee (PSC),
the highest decision-making body of the
GSFP.
In the cotton sector, the contribution of
SNV Burkina Faso to the Farm Management
System improved the situation of
15,000 producers This is about 15% of all
the producers in the SNV intervention
area, covering one-third of the whole cotton
area; 25% more than in 2007. The
Farm Management System leads to higher
farm revenues through better production,
planning and marketing. In 2009, there
will be further scaling up and an institutionalising
of the Farm Management System
in Burkina, as well as in Benin and Mali.
By employing a multi-stakeholder approach
to its engagement with the Ghana
School Feeding Programme (GSFP), SNV
Ghana facilitated dialogue, information
sharing and participation among government
and non-governmental/civil society
organisations (NGO/CSO). Subsequently,
the programme has been improved, the
number of schools with potable water has
increased from 50% in 2007 to 65% in
2008; sanitation facilities have increased
from 50% in 2007 to 75% in 2008 and the
amount spent on daily feeding has increased
from about 25 USA cents to about 33
USA cents per child. Since December
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