Agricultural Standards and Certifications, Capacity Building for Absorption of Funds and Marketing Strategies to Support Economic Growth and Trade

Programme 2014 - 2020 IPA CBC North Macedonia - Albania

Date of latest update: 2025-05-13

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Description (EN):

The overall objective is strengthening Agriculture SME’s productive capacity and access to market through Certification of food safety standards, capacity building to absorb EU funds as well as development of marketing strategies. Specific objectives: 1. Certification of agribusinesses and provision of tailored training sessions in order to enhance awareness on the importance of certifications. 2. Preparation of professional grant application packages combined with capacity building trainings offered to agribusinesses. 3. Integrated consultancy services for marketing strategies including branding, labeling, brand identity digital product promotion to increase visibility. Through a unique approach by combining technical and practical expertise the project responds to the programme objectives by achieving maximum results around three main activities: Activity 1: Certification of agribusinesses and provision of Tailored Trainings in order to enhance awareness on the importance of certifications. - Tailored Trainings to increase awareness of 90 agribusinesses about the importance of key safety standards and certifications - Assisting agribusinesses to comply with Key Agriculture Standards and Certifications - Implementation of Food Safety Standards Certifications for 20 Agribusinesses - Certification of 20 agribusinesses through 4 internationally recognised food safety certifications including GlobalG.A.P, HACCP, ISO22000, Organic Activity 2: Preparation of grant application packages combined with capacity building trainings offered to agribusinesses to increase fund absorption capacity - Training of 180 Agribusinesses in order to increase awareness for available Grant and Alternative Financing investments opportunities and increase absorbing skills - Facilitate the submission of full grant application packages for at least 15 Agribusinesses Activity 3: Integrated Consultancy Services for Marketing Strategies including branding, labelling and digital product promotion - Provide customized marketing strategies for 20 Agribusinesses - Building Agribusinesses Brand Identity - B2B / Trade Fair to Connect Agribusinesses with national and international markets

Achievements (EN):

Summary of achieved results: 1. 15 Certified Agribusinesses with international recognized certification on Food Safety and Standards including ISO22000; HACCP; GlobalG.A.P and Organic; 5 others in final stages of obtaining certification; 2. 94 Participants trained to increase knowledge on importance of Food Safety and key Standards; 3. 18 Sessions of Advanced and Technical Training Sessions; 4. 470 Agro-employees trained from whom up to 9% were women; 5. 11 Professional Business Plans developed for Agribusinesses and submitted in national and EU schemes; and 4 Agribusinesses’ Busi ness Plans awarded with a contract. The combined value reached: 278,515 € Capital Financing 577,086 € Investment volume.

Thematic information

Clustering and economic cooperation SME and entrepreneurship Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Specific Objective: The SME productive capacity and access to markets are strengthened

Thematic Priority:

(g) Enhancing competitiveness, the business environment and the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, trade and investment through, inter alia, promotion and support to entrepreneurship, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, and development of local cross-border markets and internationalisation

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: CBS Creative Business Solutions

Address: Rruga Mustafa Matohiti, No.4Tirana, Albania

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.cbs.al

ALBANIAN DEVELOPMENT FUND

Name: ALBANIAN DEVELOPMENT FUND

Address: Rruga "Sami Frashëri", Nr 10Tirana, Albania

Legal status: private

Website: https://www.albaniandf.org/

OPSTINA DEBAR

Name: OPSTINA DEBAR

Address: 8 Септември бp 72, 1250 Debar, North Macedonia

Legal status: public

Website: https://dibra.gov.mk/newmk/

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Fondi Shqiptar I Zhvillimit

Agricultural Standards and Certifications, Capacity Building for Absorption of Funds and Marketing Strategies to Support Economic Growth and Trade

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MUNICIPALITY OF DEBAR

Agricultural Standards and Certifications, Capacity Building for Absorption of Funds and Marketing Strategies to Support Economic Growth and Trade

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CBS Creative Business Solutions

Agricultural Standards and Certifications, Capacity Building for Absorption of Funds and Marketing Strategies to Support Economic Growth and Trade

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Project name (EN): Agricultural Standards and Certifications, Capacity Building for Absorption of Funds and Marketing Strategies to Support Economic Growth and Trade

Project acronym: Dibra - Debar Accelerating Agricultural Growth

Project start date: 2017-12-01

Project end date: 2019-11-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 310 000.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 263 500.00

Co-financing sources:

IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 263 500.00.

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2014 - 2020 IPA CBC North Macedonia - Albania

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2025-05-13

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

20 / 20 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

77 / 77 (100%)

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