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Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands

Accra, Ghana

Innovative sustainability programs which improve the livelihoods of the cocoa farmers and their families with verifiable environmental impact 1. Sustainability Manager at CAA• Managing sustainability Department with a team of over 20 field staff;• Designing and implementation of programs such as Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation Systems (CLMRS), Cocoa Agroforestry and enhanced biodiversity Programs, Farmer Business School (FBS), Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA), Living Income Studies & Interventions;• Communication with customers and other project partners such as traders, retailers, processors, NGOs, and Government Agencies;• Training of staff• Designing mobile data collection forms• Anylyses KPIs• Proposal writing • Reporting to customers• M&E2. General Manager at CWL• Responsible for smooth operations at the warehouse which has a special focus on storage of cocoa beans destined for Japan in collaboration with Ghana Cocoa Board;• Main point of contact with government and private stakeholders in Ghana and Japan;• Feasibility study for a MRL laboratory for pesticide residue analyses for cocoa beans exported to Japan;• Establishment of SOPs, training manuals and and repairs at facility;

Accra, Ghana

New labor services model whereby youth is trained on newest technology on maintenance, harvest and post harvest techniques, all services rendered on credit and paid true harvest earned.1. Development Manager Coffee Supply ChainFeasibility study and pilot project in coffee production and trade in Ghana• Value chain analyses, risk assessment and cost/benefit;• Stakeholder engagement;• Hulling, transport and shipping arrangements.2. Managing Director at the Agricultural Labour Service Agency (ALSA)ALSA is farm management company providing skilled labour, machinery and quality inputs on credit to increase production and income for the smallholder cocoa farmers.• Overall management of day-to-day activities including employment, training, procurement, monitoring and reporting internally and to donors;• Business proposal, SOPs, training manuals, company registration, payroll development and software design;• Finances, sales and repayment;• Designing of efficient model.

Kumasi, Ghana

Establishment of a Licensed Buying Company (LBC), responsible to purchase the cocoa beans from the members of the CAA and other certified cocoa beans from other farmer groups with improved buying practices to guarantee traceability, increase transparency and enhance quality.• Start-up activities such as business proposal, risk assess-ment and company registration; • Recruitment, procurement, head office and district warehouses arrangements;• Supervising day-to-day activities including training, monitoring, port operations, meetings with different internal chain actors and external stakeholders;• Development of training manuals, SOPs, software design with ERP, mobile money payment platform, and cocoa repayment model.

Dunkwa, Ghana

A large cocoa farmer association, consisting of thousands of smallholder cocoa farmers, with membership in all cocoa regions of Ghana. CAA provides several services and programs to its members such as certification, access to agro-inputs, Cocoa Abrabopa Pension Scheme (CAPS), extension services, gender equality program, CLMRS, and mapping and plotting of farms with use of GPS and GIS.• Managing of all day-to-day activities including 24+ staff;• Responsible for mapping, training, Internal Control System, purchases and sales of certified cocoa beans• Stakeholders management with government, NGOs, end-buyers, Certification Bodies, Certification Schemes, LBCs and other farmer coops.• Documentation, departmental reporting, digitalization and farmer database management.• Developing of conservation plan, internal standard, Farm Management policy, traceability procedure and IPM Plan.