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Sofreco worldwide

Ginger SOFRECO is a highly international company in terms of its clients, its partners, the nationalities of its experts, its headquarters staff and its presence in numerous countries.


Our clients

We have three types of clients: governments, administrations and public bodies; public and private companies; multilateral and bilateral development funding agencies.


Our teams

Ginger SOFRECO employs several hundred senior and junior experts of various nationalities, the vast majority of whom are technical specialists


Rural development & Agriculture

Selected references
Laos
French Development Agency
Pilot Project for the Irrigation of Nam Kata (PPINK) (2017-2023)
The main objectives of the technical assistance are to (i) assist in the establishment and running of the WUA of the Nam Kata scheme, (ii) provide extension services to beneficiaries, and (iii) support the District Agriculture and Forestry Office (DAFO) for project management.
Chad
European Union
Regional Technical Assistance to the PASTOR Programme (Structural support programme for pastoral development) (2017-2022)
Technical assistance to the Ministry of Livestock and Animal Production (MEPA) for the implementation of the PASTOR programme, which aimed to promote the concerted and sustainable use of Chad's pastoral resources, by creating jobs for young pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and farmers, and by strengthening their resilience.
PASTOR took place in the central (Lake Fitri and Guéra), eastern (Ennedi, Wadi Fira, Ouaddaï, Sila and Salamat) and southern regions (Mandoul and Moyen Chari) of Chad.
The regional activities were implemented by four consortia of NGOs that are beneficiaries of EU grant contracts, totalling €12.4m.
Burkina Faso
European Union
Technical Assistance for the Nutrition and Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience Support Programme (PASANAD) (2017-2022)
Institutional technical assistance for the implementation of PASANAD, whose objective was to help reduce poverty by improving governance in the field of nutrition and food security and strengthening resilience.
The programme was based on a sectorial reform contract (EUR 100 million) and on complementary institutional support for the prevention of chronic malnutrition (EUR 17 million). The services included long-term technical assistance to the Permanent Secretariat for the Coordination of Agricultural Sectorial Policies, the Executive Secretariat of the National Food Security Council, the Ministry of Animal and Fisheries Resources (MRAH), and the Ministry of Agriculture and Hydraulic Facilities (MAAH), and short-term technical assistance in the fields of monitoring and evaluation, institutional support, forecasting and planning, decentralisation, training, market analysis, nutrition and food security, irrigated agriculture and small-scale livestock farming.
Niger
European Union
Technical assistance for the establishment of the National Information Platform for Nutrition (NIPN) in Niger (2017-2022)
The goal of the ‘National Information Platform for Nutrition’ initiative is to produce nutrition-related information, then to generate requests for information in order to stimulate public debate, and to reformulate analysis plans for decision-makers, stakeholders, or partners concerned by the field of nutrition. The technical assistance provides its support in order to:
- ensure methodological rigour in the data production and analysis process;
- develop a training plan for the main stakeholders (nutrition-sensitive, decision analysis, method for analysing the results of nutritional surveys, design and management of on-line databases, etc.);
- set up tools for storing and sharing statistical data and information on the nutritional situation (platform);
- make information on the nutritional situation accessible to all sections of the public, and particularly useable by the public authorities for decision-making and strategic purposes.
Mali
European Union
Technical assistance to the inter-branch organisation for rice in Mali (IFRIZ) (2019-2022)
Strengthening of the structuring, functioning and capacities of Mali’s inter-branch organisation for rice (IFRIZ) to enable it to fully carry out its missions.
Mali
European Union
Support to build the capacities of the Planning and Statistics Unit of the Rural Development Sector and of other actors involved in the statistics system of Mali's agricultural sector (2018-2022)
This TA assignment is to assist the Planning and Statistics Unit of the Rural Development Sector and other actors involved in strengthening the agricultural statistics system by:
- Strengthening the organisation and coordination of Mali's agricultural statistics system;
- Strengthening of planning, programming and budgeting in the rural development sector;
- Strengthening of the monitoring and evaluation of public policies and of projects and programmes in the rural development sector;
- Strengthening of the production and timely dissemination of quality data to inform decision-making processing.
Burkina Faso
World Bank
Technical assistance to improve sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) management (2020-2022)
Support to the Directorate of Plant Protection and Packaging (DPVC) to strengthen the existing phytosanitary system, specifically by facilitating the assessment of SPS risks in rice import and by supporting mango exporters to comply with EU SPS rules.
Niger
European Union
Support to the European Union Delegation in Niger to define the priority actions in the 2021-2027 programming in the agricultural private sector in Niger (2021-2022)
Assistance to the joint definition, with the Nigerien authorities and the EU Member States, of the priority actions in the 2021-2027 programming in support of the development of agro-sylvo-pastoral value chains in Niger. To this end, the team is developing: i) a diagnosis of the agro-sylvo-pastoral private sector, ii) an in-depth analysis of 10 value chains identified as the most promising, and iii) proposals of actions to develop the private agro-food sector in Niger.
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