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In this quarter, SWITCH Africa Green held two National Networking forums in Mauritius and South Africa. These forums brought together participants from government, development partners, civil society and the private sector including SWITCH Africa Green grantees and beneficiaries. SWITCH Africa Green Networking forums provide support services for networking and communication among the projects, distilling knowledge from project implementation for wider replication, and facilitation of policy uptake.

In this quarter, the SWITCH Africa Green project carried out technical monitoring of projects in three countries: Burkina Faso, Mauritius and South Africa. The technical monitoring team comprised of UNEP, UNDP, UNOPS and a representative of the National Technical Coordination Committee. The team visited 69 MSMEs out of a possible 950 MSMEs across the three countries.

In this quarter the SWITCH Africa Green project carried out technical monitoring of projects in three countries: Ghana, Kenya and Uganda. Technical Monitoring involves review, monitoring and assessment of the uptake of SCP practices by the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) who are the final beneficiaries of the project.

The Quarterly Report highlights activities carried out under the SWITCH Africa Green Programme during the period between July and September 2016.

The Quarterly Reports provides highlights of activities carried out under the SWITCH Africa Green Programme between April and June 2016.

In January – March 2016 quarter, national stakeholder workshops were held in Burkina Faso, Mauritius and South Africa. The workshops aimed to provide an avenue for the common understanding of the overall project objectives, roles and responsibilities as well as the expectations and required outputs of the country projects among the national stakeholders, grantees, partners and final beneficiaries (MSMEs).

In the October - December 2015 quarter, grants were awarded to successful applicants in Burkina Faso, Mauritius, South Africa and the multi country projects. The Multi country grantees have projects that cover all the 6 pilot countries (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa and Uganda).

The Quarterly Report highlight key activities that were carried out in the period between 01 July 2015 and 30 September 2015.