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International Projects
Case study 2
Working with farmers and fishers in Uganda
What International Projects delivers Click to read
supporting sustainable development in communities in China (see page 22).” International Projects is made up of
a core project management team and technical experts, from both internal and external networks. Alongside project delivery, a key part of the work is building relationships and trust. (see pop-up ‘What International Projects delivers’ above left). The team collaborates with many different funding partners around the globe to address the challenges they are seeking to resolve. Projects have been funded by the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the World Bank Group, the European Commission and the World Health Organization, as well as the UK government. “Compared to our earlier work, we are a lot more active in designing projects rather than just responding to requests for technical assistance as we used to do,”
“ We work with partners to help shape initiatives, drawing from our learnings and experience of what has worked on previous projects” Jennifer Bisset
says Jennifer. “We work with partners to help shape initiatives, drawing from our learnings and experience of what has worked on previous projects. “BSI is seen around the world as a thought leader in international standardization. However, when we work in partnership with other NSBs, this
A project in Uganda working with the Department of Fisheries Resources resulted in significant improvements in the post-catch handling of fish
Two separate projects have been completed in Uganda, both seeing close cooperation between International Projects, the Commonwealth Standards Network (CSN) and the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS). One project was aimed at farmers, in which the CSN and UNBS worked together to translate and simplify standards for farmers to improve the quality of the goods they brought to market. To help farmers learn how to implement the standards in their businesses and to ensure they were properly complying with the standards, CSN and UNBS introduced the ‘Train the Trainer’ programme, funding and training several farmers who in turn trained another 50-60 farmers. Those farmers then each trained several more farmers to help achieve standards compliance across the country. To date around 6,000 farmers have been trained in how to implement the standards, resulting in products that are stored, maintained and transported to a very high standard, thereby increasing market opportunities.
The second project included the Uganda Department of Fisheries Resources (DFR) working alongside UNBS and CSN in a similar programme to simplify existing national guidelines and standards, in this case for post-catch fish-handling. The existing guidelines were very technical in nature and written in English, so not readily accessible to most of the people who needed to understand them in a multilingual country.
It was important that the standards
were understood and complied with to provide opportunities for fishers, fish handlers and traders to get access to local and international markets. Guidelines were translated into three different languages and augmented with a publicity campaign and training, including for auditors to enable certification to the standard. The project resulted in significant
improvements in the Uganda fisheries industry, particularly the post-catch handling of fish, improving market access for this sector and enabling them to attract higher prices for a better quality product.
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