Food Industry Checklist Sample Clauses

Food Industry Checklist a checklist for each food industry sub-sector, mapping the various standards required in order to export to Israel. Project implementation suffered a late start attributable to the length of time required to complete the vetting of our partner, PalTrade, resulting in some unreached targets for FY16. In order to overcome this, the partners have redistributed the project activities in FY17 and FY18 in order to complete all planned activities, and have readjusted the targets for FY17 and FY18 accordingly. The primary challenge this quarter (Q4) was the recruitment of the Palestinian companies from the sub sectors identified by the NAS. In order to enhance potential success for Palestinian companies’ penetration into the Israeli market, the NAS identified sub sectors that are less prevalent in the Israeli market. In addition, the recruitment process also eliminated companies which are within the selected sub-sectors, yet are already able to comply with Israeli and international standards and do not require the assistance of this project, as well as medium sized companies who have already benefited from international assistance in order to give an opportunity to smaller companies who wish to participate. As a result, the companies were chosen from a more narrow, yet more focused group of companies. The Xxxxx Center and XxxXxxxx worked together to recruit as many companies as possible in these categories and ensured that these companies were at the minimum stage of export readiness to be successful in a larger market. As of the close of FY16, the partners had recruited 15 companies and had agreed to begin consulting these companies, rather than waiting to recruit another five companies. If other companies will be recruited, they may begin the consulting at a later stage. Additionally, the Xxxxx Center faced some challenges in the process of recruiting Israeli consultants due to the budget restrictions, language qualifications and the perception of danger in entering the West Bank. While this process took longer than expected, the Xxxxx Center has received several quotations from professional and experienced Israeli consultants, with the recruitment being finalized in early FY17. This challenge was alleviated by the decision to allow participating companies to begin consulting with the Palestinian consultant, to be joined at a later stage by the Israeli consultant. Lastly, the advocacy event which was held on September 7th, 2016 was overall very successful but di...