Agriclture Project for Naatal Mbay in Senegal
ROSS BETHIO - SENEGAL: Database manager of the Union des Femmes Productrices (Women Producer's Union), Fatou Danfa works at her office on September 20 2017 in Ross Bethio, Senegal. Photo by Xaume Olleros / RTI
STORY - NOTES -
*** Ms. Ngom Fatou Danfa
47 years old, Horticulture Technician, Bachelor's degree + 3; originally from Dakar, came to Saint Louis for professional reasons
Compared to the UFP organization
Database manager of the Union of Women Producers of Ross Bethio (UFP)
Provides network-level facilitation, training on good agricultural practices, quality assurance follow-up, organization follow-up (financial management) with the support of Naatal Mbay
SAED focal point, and manages the credit monitoring of CNCAS and agricultural equipment
Responsible for the monitoring of paddy stocks in Saint-Louis and Ross Béthio as part of the program to set up a system for real-time monitoring of paddy stocks for in-kind repayment of production credits granted by the Commission. Caisse Nationale de Crédit Agricole of Senegal (CNCAS).
Compared to the rice processing unit of the UFP
Monitors the commercialization and management of micro-finance with women members
Compared to the follow-up of the paddy stocks of the CNCAS:
Manages the Saint-Louis credit database for 26 beneficiaries and Ross Béthio for reimbursement tracking
Watches overall paddy production on the contracted global credit paid and payable. Data stored on tablets using a computerized system
Currently, everything is going well
Its challenges: convincing producers to adopt the contracting system, given the many advantages
Always have an up-to-date database
The database made it possible to identify the problems, to propose solutions and to reconstitute the data
With the CNCAS, there were real difficulties in monitoring paddy stocks for repayment of loans to the Caisse Nationale de Crédit Agricole du Sénégal (CNCAS), which has become a major issue. But now this problem is solved
Prospects: Early deploy
Agriclture Project for Naatal Mbay in Senegal
ROSS BETHIO - SENEGAL: Database manager of the Union des Femmes Productrices (Women Producer's Union), Fatou Danfa works at her office on September 20 2017 in Ross Bethio, Senegal. Photo by Xaume Olleros / RTI
STORY - NOTES -
*** Ms. Ngom Fatou Danfa
47 years old, Horticulture Technician, Bachelor's degree + 3; originally from Dakar, came to Saint Louis for professional reasons
Compared to the UFP organization
Database manager of the Union of Women Producers of Ross Bethio (UFP)
Provides network-level facilitation, training on good agricultural practices, quality assurance follow-up, organization follow-up (financial management) with the support of Naatal Mbay
SAED focal point, and manages the credit monitoring of CNCAS and agricultural equipment
Responsible for the monitoring of paddy stocks in Saint-Louis and Ross Béthio as part of the program to set up a system for real-time monitoring of paddy stocks for in-kind repayment of production credits granted by the Commission. Caisse Nationale de Crédit Agricole of Senegal (CNCAS).
Compared to the rice processing unit of the UFP
Monitors the commercialization and management of micro-finance with women members
Compared to the follow-up of the paddy stocks of the CNCAS:
Manages the Saint-Louis credit database for 26 beneficiaries and Ross Béthio for reimbursement tracking
Watches overall paddy production on the contracted global credit paid and payable. Data stored on tablets using a computerized system
Currently, everything is going well
Its challenges: convincing producers to adopt the contracting system, given the many advantages
Always have an up-to-date database
The database made it possible to identify the problems, to propose solutions and to reconstitute the data
With the CNCAS, there were real difficulties in monitoring paddy stocks for repayment of loans to the Caisse Nationale de Crédit Agricole du Sénégal (CNCAS), which has become a major issue. But now this problem is solved
Prospects: Early deploy