Promotion of Salvadoran coffee and cocoa and implementation of actions for the development and transparency of these markets

About this project

The initiative, of 36 months and a requested budget of 2.5 MEUR, in line with the Cuscatlan Plan, national development plan, promotes the restructuring and modernization of the Salvadoran Coffee Institute (ISC) and the National Center for Agricultural and Forestry Technologies (CENTA), entities responsible for research and the transfer of appropriate technologies in the coffee and cocoa supply chains respectively, also intending to improve public skills in the field of specialized, updated and transparent technical assistance services. The initiative includes two components: a. The first involves the sharing of methodologies, tools, skills and best practices between Unioncamere and BMTI and its counterparts at the Salvadoran authorities ascribed to the Ministry of Agriculture as well as the associative expressions of both supply chains. Once the Project is finalized, local counterparts will have to be able to introduce modern services for the regulation and transparency of agri-food markets and strategic commercial promotion (848,500.00 Euro); b. The second involves the practical testing of the skills acquired, on the two supply chains specifically targeted by the intervention, coffee and cocoa. The plan includes study and investigation activities, valorization tools, both paper and digital, in-person and virtual commercial meetings between Salvadoran exporting companies and Italian companies of the sector associated with Unioncamere, training actions about rules to reach Eu…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 8Decent Work and Economic Growth
• 12Responsible Consumption and Production
• 17Partnerships for the Goals

Published by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development · Government

Countries

El Salvador

Sectors

Business policy and administrationBusiness development servicesAgricultural developmentIndustrial crops/export cropsAgricultural servicesTrade policy and administrative management

Focus

Environment · Also contributesGood governance · Also contributesTrade development · Main focusBiodiversity · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Also contributes

Funded by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Implemented by

UNIONCAMERE - UNIONE ITALIANA DELLE CAMERE DI COMMERCIO, INDUSTR

Accountable

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Published by AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 13 Mar 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-6-4-013124-01-0.

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