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EAFCA HOLDS COFFEE PRICE RISK MANAGEMENT CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP

Executive Director Mr. Philip Gitao, Programs Manager Rachel Nampinga, Facilitators Robert Nsibirwa and Dick Wadada pose for a group picture with various participants at the Cassia Logde in Kampala Uganda.

On the 7th - 8th January 2010, Eastern African Fine Coffees Association (EAFCA) held a high level consultative workshop with various coffee stakeholders in attendance, to review and validate training course material for the development of Coffee Price Risk Management “Trainers’ Manual” and “Traders’ User Handbook”. The 2-day workshop was held at the Cassia Lodge in Kampala, Uganda.

The Coffee Price Risk Management course is being developed in partnership with the World Bank Commodity Risk Management Group (CRMG). The purpose of the coffee price risk management training is to empower coffee trade practitioners with skills on the basic principles of price risk assessment and a range of management strategies within the trading of coffee.

(From left to right) Mr Lionel de Roland-Phillips, Mr. Emmanuel Rwakagara &  Mr Emson Mandizvidza participate in a group discussion during the workshop.

The consultative workshop aimed at bringing together a team of coffee trade professionals for peer review and validation of draft manuscripts for the two publications within the context of coffee trade in Africa.

Emphasis was laid on allowing the participants to study the price risk management resources available and acquaint themselves with the subject area thus providing input on specific subject issues to improve the draft manuscripts, define the target beneficiaries of the proposed training, set out criteria to determine the relevance of material to the target beneficiaries, determine the manuscripts’ scope by advising material for inclusion, draw from each participant’s working experience and finally to review and recommend the best chronological flow of the materials.

Mr. Primus Kimaryo receives his certificate of appreciation from Mr Philip Gitao and Ms Rachel Nampinga

Workshop facilitators were Mr. Robert W. Nsibirwa and Mr. Dick R. Wadada, both consultants at the Africa Coffee Academy based in Kampala, Uganda.

The Price Risk Management training course was the first course to be rolled out at the EAFCA Coffee Training Centre, which is set to be formally launched later this year in Kampala Uganda. EAFCA will hold series of trainings this year that participants from the EAFCA member countries shall attend.

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Press Release - April 2010 (pdf, 137KB, new window)

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