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YEP Effect
Marleen: “Yangon is a relatively small capital, so we often meet the other Young Experts at Agrofood and Water events, network meetings of the Netherlands Embassy,
but also in a more personal context in the weekends. As part of our YEP network, we feel encouraged to exchange knowledge and
Young Experts and our coach Natascha Soons were present. We also organised two YEP weekends: one in 2016 with Myanmar and other Young Experts based in Asia, and one in 2017 with the ever-extending Myanmar YEP group. For the last YEP weekend we had a visit from coach Paul van Koppen, who did an intervision session with us. “
Ripple Effect
“We have definitely encouraged other organisations and companies to become
part of YEP Programmes! Myanmar is one
of the biggest YEP countries now. And ICCO recently hired another duo of two new Young Experts in Cambodia, Sinat Hin and Suzanne van Huijgevoort (YEP batch 13)!”
ideas to explore collaboration among our organisations and companies. This works pretty well.
YEP Programmes assisted to extend the ICCO team in Myanmar, and to improve our local network here. This helped our organisation to have a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities in the Myanmar Agrofood sector, which further improved our projects and programmes here.”
Ye Min: “We organised a number of events for Young Experts in Myanmar, including an introduction of the Young Expert Programmes to the Netherlands Embassy, where all the
If you want more information about the P4 project, please get in touch with Communications Officer Dini Kamayana (also a previous Young Expert from batch 6): m.kamayana@icco.nl
KEY IMPACTS
PULSES, PEOPLE, PLANET & PROFIT (P4)
BENEFICIARIES
10,000
MUNGBEAN SMALLHOLDER FARMERS
$
9
FARMER
INCOME INCREASES
BY 20%