OVOP in Africa

You can click on a country on the map or select at the list below: Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Comoros Democratic Republic of Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo Reunion Rwanda Saint Helena Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara Zambia Zimbabwe Chad

There are 54 countries in Africa and so far, 12 African countries have adopted OVOP, including Malawi (2003), Kenya (2006), Ethiopia (2010), Ghana, Senegal (2011), Mozambique (2011), Uganda (2008), Tanzania (2011), Madagascar (2010), Nigeria (2014), South Africa and Zambia (2014). In these countries, people are encouraged to identify local material, natural, or cultural resources and to devise methods to add value to them. Many OVOP products in Africa are so unique…You can name here the sisal baskets, soft stone, wood-carving in Kenya, raffia baskets, gemstones in Madagascar...