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February 2009: Indonesia Program Hosts Close-out Workshop
From November 17-20, 2008, ACDI/VOCA held a close-out workshop for five of its beneficiary business service providers (BSPs) in Makassar, Indonesia. During the workshop the service providers shared results and lessons learned from implementing their 2008-2009 business plans and incorporated those findings when adapting their business plans for the coming year. The USDA-funded Indonesia project began project close down in December 2008.

January 2008: SUCCESS Alliance Works on Technology Transfer to Farmers
SUCCESS Alliance is developing composting businesses and assisting in the technology transfer to farmers of agriculture machinery to chop cocoa pods for compost. The program is providing technical assistance to business service providers that serve the smallholder cocoa sector.

July 2007: Indonesia Update
Staff from CocoaPhil and ACDI/VOCA completed a five-day study tour of the cocoa sector in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The tour, which was organized by MARS Inc., provided an overview of problems and progress with cocoa development in Indonesia.