📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Country: Georgia Contract type: Standardvertrag Project start: 01.01.2022 Funding amount: € 1.778.165,00 End: 31.12.2026
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The project's intended impact is: Georgian farmers and livestock business operators increase incomes, competitiveness, and productivity due to improved animal health, reduced food risks and access to local, regional and international markets. The expected outcomes are:
1. Through enhanced capacities, the National Food Agency (NFA) keeps the National Animal Identification, Registration and Traceability System (NAITS) regularly updated and uses its data for an effective control of animal health and food safety
2. Male and female farmers, as well as business operators are motivated to enter and use NAITS data as they are aware of benefits coming from improved animal health, livestock productivity and competitiveness of their products on diversified markets
Expected results
Output 1.1: The institutional and regulative framework and enabling environment for enhanced performance of the NFA, stakeholder participation, comprehensive use of the NAITS and sustainable upkeep and maintenance is developed.
Output 1.2: NAITS advanced modules and features enhance the performance of the NFA and the EU compliance of the animal health and food safety system.
Output 1.3: NAITS data quality management improved.
Output 1.4: Improved capacities, leadership and ownership for the NAITS among state stakeholders.
Output 2.1: The NAITS modules and features meet the data needs of its non-state stakeholders and contribute to the improvement of their activities and support participation in the data sharing.
Output 2.2: Improved awareness, participation, and ownership among the NAITS non-state stakeholders.
Target group / Beneficiaries
The direct beneficiaries from the project will be the National Food Agency and the stakeholders involved and benefiting from animal identification and registration (17 state and municipal institutions with some 1,050 employees, some 200 SMEs and some 100 commercial livestock producers including some up to 10 farmer organizations).
Activities
This project will provide technical assistance to the NFA and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia (MEPA) for development and improved use of critically important IT technologies (databases) and legal frameworks, required for the development of the livestock sector, in accordance to WHO, WTO, FAO, OIE and DCFTA requirements and recommendations.
As significant progress in the development and implementation of the system has been achieved at a technical level, the Phase II project, will aim to secure its sustainability and long-term impact on human health, animal health, food safety and access to international markets, by focusing on development of an enabling environment, participative inclusion of stakeholders and
