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Titre : Project for the Promotion of Handicraft Through the Program One Village/One Product (OVOP) Senegal

Pays : Sénégal
Localisation : Fatick and Kaolack Regions

Durée : 2011-2014

Objectif
The OVOP Project aims to encourage the collective initiatives precisely those of local producers and also the small companies to allow them to use and consider the local ressources in order to create a local specialty product (OVOP product) which can be considered as a unique local treasure and to develop income generating activities. The project contributes to revitalize the villages which are facing rural migration but also social and economic stagnation

Résumé du projet
The concept « One village, One Product » means a process by which, each village identifies a local resource with a relative advantage that is transformed and sold around the national territory.

The main principles of OVOP are : Think globally, Act locally ; Self-reliance and Creativity ; Human Resource development.

Organisme d’exécution : Directorate of Craft industry, Ministry of Vocational Training, Learning and Craft

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)