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November 30, 2022
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with the implementation of its European Union-funded West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) and SECO-funded Global Quality and Standards Programme on Wednesday 30th November 2022 organized a workshop to deploy the UNIDO -developed electronic quality tool (Qualitrics) for the assessment of quality awareness in Specific value chains.
The tool helps to establish quality awareness within the industry as well as the challenges of quality. For the cocoa and cashew value chains, a successful assessment has already been completed.
The two projects now seek to implement the e-tool in the oil palm and cosmetics value chains and increase the quality awareness of the two value chains.
The assessment workshop recommended relevant corrective actions needed to improve the quality awareness of the industries.
The need for all value chain stakeholders, within a given society, to understand the meaning, importance, and potential benefits of improved levels of quality in their products and services are at the heart of the concept of the ‘Culture for Quality’.
Key components of the diagnostic tool were questions bordering on the seven quality management principles identified as the underlying basis for the ISO 9000 series of standards. They included customer focus, leadership, engagement of people, and process approach.
The implementation of this tool would culminate in an improved culture for quality in the selected value chains, impact local consumption, and access to global markets and provide an overall improvement in trade performance for the relevant SMEs.
