NTICAJOU - Creation of an ICTs network to share the knowledge about the cashew nut world market and to valorize the cashew nut chain in Ivory Coast

• To develop a dynamic ICT network to share information between 5 000 producers and 22 exporters of the commercial chain of cashew nuts with the Government’s Services.
• To strengthen and enhance the Government’s Services by an ICT structured network
• To improve the livelihood and working conditions for 5,000 cashew nut producers

This project aims to contribute to reduce extreme poverty in the context of the "Strategy for reducing Poverty in the Ivory Coast". It targets specifically women’s poverty by generating interest in new information and communication technologies and also by building a partnership for providing support for the arboriculture chain in the Sahelian area.

A1. Establish the information/communication system based on ICTs network
A2. Starting and monitoring the effective functioning of the information and price communication system (5,000 producers informed by 70,000 text messages inducing an income of 1€/day/producer)
A3. Ensure monitoring and impacts evaluation in terms of producers' living standards and support them in their selling process (200 trained managers)
A4. Improve negotiating skills of 5,000 producers through training
A5. Set up a ICTs structured network to share/disseminate information on marketing between producers, exporters of the commercial chain of cashew nuts and the Government’s Services
A6. Improve ICTs integration capacities in national institutions