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Audit gestion réalisé pour 4 ONG locales de Kindu

Jean François, expert AVe spécialisé dans la gestion d’entreprises et ayant une forte expérience en Afrique a effectué un déplacement de 2 semaines à Kindu à l’Est de la RDC pour réaliser un audit de la gestion de chacune de 4 ONG locales. Ce sont des associations regroupant des communautés villageoises ayant leurs activités dans des domaines divers : agriculture, éducation, santé … La mission a été intense et a répondu aux attentes des responsables des 4 associations, ce qui va leur permettre de solliciter des bailleurs de fonds pour poursuivre leurs activités.

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Ave tient son assemblée générale annuelle dès le début 2025 en présentiel

Bonne participation à notre assemblée générale qui s’est tenue à Rennes dès début janvier. Gros changement par rapport aux années précédentes : on est en présentiel. Ça a été l’occasion de constater que notre activité a fortement augmenté en 2024 et que les perspectives pour 2025 sont bonnes. C’est aussi un moment convivial où chaque expert a rendu compte de ses missions.

Deux experts d’AVe participent au SELAB avec plusieurs partenaires Français de l’Elevage

Bernard, expert AVe en élevage de porc et Daniel, expert Ave en élevage bovin ont participé au SELAB sur un stand commun avec plusieurs partenaires français de l’élevage : IFIP (Institut Français du Porc), AXIOM, leader français de la Génétique porcine, CFC (Celtic Freight Consulting), UNIPORC. Pendant trois jours, ils ont rencontré plusieurs éleveurs ivoiriens et des acteurs des filières porc et lait de Côte d’Ivoire. Bernard a animé une conférence sur la biosécurité en élevage de porc.

A 2-year construction project managed by AVe

Intervention on a Ministry multiplication farm

The agreement between the Ivory Coast's MIRAH (Ministry of Livestock) and AVe provides for AVe pig specialists to support a Ministry multiplication farm with around 100 sows (purebred breeding stock), as well as a number of pig farms monitored by the Ministry. Bernard and Gilbert were away for a week in August. They arrived in a context of ASF (African Swine Fever). As a result, their intervention was limited to the multiplication farm. This is currently being set up. In November 2023, AXIOM delivered some fifty purebred breeding animals, which were placed in temporary premises pending the construction of breeding buildings suitable for professional breeding. The AVe experts' recommendations focused mainly on the biosafety measures to be scrupulously observed, the layout of the building under construction, and preparation for the farrowings due to take place in the coming month. Other interventions will follow. It is imperative that this multiplication farm functions properly, as it will produce selected breeding stock that will be sold to the country's pig farms. This is the basis of the future Ivorian pork industry, which is being set up today.

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For each pig project, a building plan adapted to the size of the farm

Several agreements signed for pork projects in various African countries

Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia, Senegal: projects to set up pig farms are appearing in several African countries. Thanks to an agreement with AXIOM (the French leader in pig genetics) and the distribution of the “Guide de l'éleveur de porc en Afrique”, AVe is now called on to support these farmers in the implementation of their installation projects. Drawing up a plan for the farm buildings, a business plan that answers the questions: “How much does it cost? “How much does it bring in? These are the terms of agreements signed with various investors from Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Liberia and Senegal. The projects involve medium to small-scale farms (from 50 farrow-to-finish sows to 15 farrow-to-finish sows). All these new investors want to set up professional farms with an economic objective for themselves and their countries (to reduce pork imports, which account for 80% of the pork consumed in their countries.

Exchange with officials (mayor, traditional chief...) Kitkot future dam area

AVe president meets partners (current, former, future) in Cameroon

Cameroon is the African country where Ave has intervened most often over the past 10 years. The purpose of the visit by Louis, President of AVe, was to meet “face to face” with the partners we know well through the support we provide, as well as with new contacts seeking our expertise. These direct exchanges are fruitful, as they enable us to better identify needs and respond to them later on. On the week's agenda :

• site visits to Kitkot: future hydroelectric dam project on the Sanaga River
• in Ntui: an agricultural project (crop production) on a 40-hectare site
• meetings: the Minister of MINEPIA, the President of the Chamber of Agriculture, the AFD agricultural delegate...
• a meeting on the key factors for successful pig farming in Africa, attended by some sixty people.

A full and diversified program, reflected in a number of new agreements

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About ten Ivorian pig farms audited by two AVe experts prior to the introduction of High Genetic Value breeding stock

Framework agreement between the Ivory Coast Ministry of Livestock and AVe

On March 1, 2024, taking advantage of the Ivory Coast Minister of Livestock's visit to the Salon de l'Agriculture in Paris, a framework agreement was signed with AVe specifying our involvement in the PRO PORC program (MIRAH's pork industry development program). The signing took place on the premises of IFIP (Institut Français de l'Interprofession Porcine), which has also signed an agreement with MIRAH. With IFIP, we work together to ensure that our interventions are complementary.

Renovation of a hospital in northern Cameroon

An agreement has been signed between the Christian Aurenche - Tokombéré Foundation and AVe to provide Eric, an AVe expert specializing in building construction, for the renovation of the Tokombéré hospital in northern Cameroon. The foundation is supporting the "health" component of a more global project, the Tokombéré Human Promotion Project (PPHT), in an area where living conditions are extremely difficult. The health component includes preventive and primary care in the villages and a 150-bed hospital. This hospital needs to be completely renovated.