NOVEMBER 2009

MANGO MARKET CHAIN
	MarChE is assisting small farmer mango producers in the South, Southeast and West. Linkages were identified and/or established between the grower groups and buyers, including JMB S.A., La FINCA, and F&L Société d’Exportation de Fruits et Légumes, Perry Export & Import and Agropak.
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COCOA MARKET CHAIN
	MarChE has established a training program for over 700 small cocoa producers in Dame Marie (Grand-Anse), a major cocoa producing area. MarChE coordinates with the DEED project, which has similar activities in the North.
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CRAFTS MARKET CHAIN
	Strong, steady increases in handicraft interventions marked MarChE’s 1st year with extraordinary advances being made in September and into October :there are 6 international consultants, 2 ATA employees from the Connecticut office, and 1 Haitian designer working in Haiti.
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COFFEE MARKET CHAIN
	MarChE has ongoing activities the South, Southeast and Nippes; the area of Beaumont (Grand-Anse) is targeted for interventions in the near future due to its potential for high quality coffee production. Key players in the value chain were contacted, particularly the growers and the exporters.
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NORTH TOURISM MARKET CHAIN
	5 training events were held from February to June, benefiting over 100 people in the tourism sector, including managers and owners. Themes addressed were: Hy-giene and HACCP, Customer service and Hospitality. 2 events were organized in September in Cap Haitian for hotel and restaurant personnel on service and hospi-tality; both major challenges for tourism operators.
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ESTEE LAUDER VETIVER EXPLORATION MISSION
	Production and marketing opportunity were explored by MarChE for Vetiver oil with a joint mission (MarChE/ Estee Lauder/ Eco Venture) in August. As a result, links were established among processors and a potential buyer. It is expected that processors will modernize their plants to become more efficient in energy consumption.
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GRANTS STATUS UPDATE
	In the area of grants implementation MarChE has accomplished the followings: The Grants Management Team (GMT)1 reviewed one hundred five (105) concept paper's, totaling over thirty million dollars ($30,000,000), from which fifteen (15) were selected to submit a full proposal.
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MSMEs SERVICES
	During the first year Caribbean Business Consulting experts developed with the assistance of an ITC specialist, a data base system on MSMEs to facilitate collection and sharing of information on SMEs benefiting from MarChE technical and training assistance in the Jacmel region. A data collection tool has been designed focusing on enterprises profile and key management functions accounting, finances, human re-sources, input supplies and markets.
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