East Africa Project Completed
This month, IFPTI completed the project to create a regulator training program for four countries in East Africa (Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda). The program consisted of:
24 online courses and assessments taken by 100 regulators on IFPTI’s learning portal.
Two instructor-led courses and assessments on the Basics of Inspections and Investigations for these regulators over two weeks.
A week-long Train-the-Trainer session in Kampala, Uganda for 20 select regulators who will now teach inspection techniques in their agencies.
Armed with the skill and knowledge obtained during the program, the four countries will now be able to train inspectors in inspection and investigation techniques within the context of their countries’ food laws and regulations.
The training program was made possible by the Land O’Lakes Venture 37 TRASE project with support from the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service’s Food for Progress program. Through the efforts of the TRASE project, sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) system capacity is being built among the East Africa Community’s (EAC) Partner States and agribusinesses with the goal of easing SPS related trade barriers regionally and internationally, thus opening the door to new trade and opportunity in agriculture.
