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E236: Strengthening national capacities of the CIS countries to implement ECE agricultural quality standards (Phase II of project E160)

EXCOM Form:

 

EXCOM form

Concept Paper or Project Document:

 

Project doc, including the budget

Annual Progress Reports:

 

Monitoring the Implementation

Annual Progress Report

Final Report:

 

 

Key project deliverables:

 

 

Evaluation:

 

https://unece.org/evaluation-reports

 

Implementation

 


Part I. Planning
(to be filled in before submission to EXCOM)
Part II. Implementation
(to be used for reporting on progress in the implementation of the project in real time)1,2

Expected accomplishments

Planned activities

Estimated costs (US$)

 

Implemented activities3

Actual expenditures4 (US$)3

EA 1: Improved knowledge and infrastructure to develop and apply in practice UNECE agricultural quality standards.

A1.1  Procurement of equipment for biotechnological laboratory to produce healthy seed potatoes under clean phytosanitary conditions.

200,000

1.

2.

 

A1.2  Developing explanatory brochures on the ECE standards for persimmons and dried apricots.

23,600

1. Photo mission to Italy

2000

 

A2.1 Developing guidelines and recommendations on traceability in the food sector.

23,000

EA 2: Strengthened regional and international cooperation between national authorities, research institutions and the private sector in developing food safety and food traceability systems. 

1.

 

A2.2 Workshop on traceability in the food sector.

20,000

1.

 
  A2.3 Developing ECE guides on: seed potato diseases, pests and defects; field inspection; and tuber inspection. 15,000

1.  A UNECE Guide to Operating a Seed Potato Certification Service, the UNECE Guide to Seed Potato Field Inspection and the Guide to Seed Potato Tuber Inspection were developed.

14000

EA 3: Increased international cooperation of experts in breeding and testing new soybean varieties.

A3.1 Research and field work in Switzerland and the Russian Federation to breed new soybean varieties.

10,000

 

1.Through this component, experimentation and testing of new soybean varieties from Switzerland and the Russian Federation was carried out, drawing on the Swiss and Russian experience and the genetic resources available in both countries.
 

 
Total: (including 13% of Programme Support Costs) 291,600 Total:  
Footnote


1 The secretariat shall inform EXCOM in case of unexpected developments or serious problems of any kind in the project implementation.
2 Questions from member States on project implementation will be forwarded to the secretariat.
Relevant information should be uploaded by the project manager on the Project Monitoring Tool within one month from the end of the activity and include the following:
(a) For an advisory service (including at a workshop/seminar/training organized by other organizations): title; venue; dates; project expenditures; and hyperlink(s) to presentation(s) and other relevant documents;
(b) For a workshop/conference/training organized by UNECE: title; venue; dates; project expenditures; and hyperlinks to the meeting agenda, list of participants, presentation(s) made by UNECE, conference documents, training materials and reports;
(c) For a consultancy: project expenditures; hyperlinks to the consultancy ToR and main outputs (study, report, training material, presentation, etc.) produced by the consultant/s;
(d) For other outputs not included under bullet points above: hyperlink to relevant documents.  
[1] Relevant financial information – certified by the Executive Office - should be uploaded by the project manager on the Project Monitoring Tool within one month from the end of the activity.