Food safety systems and trade facilitation across agri-food value chains in Somalia

About this project

<p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: black; background-color: white;">The proposed project is part of an EU-INTPA regional programme called ¿Alliance for the Horn of Africa Initiative¿. In this framework, UNIDO has been offered the opportunity to design a project proposal set to strengthening Somalia overall capacities of quality control and standards institutions for inspections, metrology, testing, and certification of priority food products (through standards development, laboratories, equipment, staff training, etc.), including certification of origin, as well as improve collaboration among quality control, standards and certification institutions and with relevant Somali public institutions (e.g. customs, port/airport authorities, police, statistics, Ministries of Commerce and Industry, Agriculture and Fisheries) and private sector. The collaboration set to be put forward by the proposed project, will also include outreach, engagements and partnership facilitation with international standards bodies and institutions from other countries in particular Kenya, Ethiopia and UAE. This will have the very specific objective to move towards the overall international recognition of Somali standards, certification system and its alignment with international best practices. Ultimately, this will in turn, help increase the international recognition of Somali products, starting from selected food products that the proposed project will be directly supporting as part of th…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 5Gender Equality
• 8Decent Work and Economic Growth
• 9Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• 10Reduced Inequalities

Published by

European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships · Other public sector

Countries

Somalia

Sectors

Trade policy and administrative managementFood safety and qualityTrade facilitation

Focus

Climate adaptation · Main focusGender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Also contributesBiodiversity · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Also contributes

Funded by

European Commission

Implemented by

UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPME NT ORGANIZATION

Accountable

United Nations Industrial Development Organisation

Passes funds through

Directorate-General for International Partnerships

Published by European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 29 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XI-IATI-EC_INTPA-2024-PC-36936.

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