Progress & Future Plans

Born in Rwanda, pan-Africa and global in vision

ACES represents a significant milestone in our collective journey towards a sustainable, equitable, and resilient food and health systems for Africa. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies and innovative solutions, ACES will empower farmers, healthcare workers, and stakeholders across various sectors to mitigate losses, enhance resilience, and promote sustainable development.

Honourable Rwanda Minister of the Environment

Dr Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya

ACES centre opening ceremony in Kigali

The build - The programme was born...

The programme was designed as “Born in Rwanda, pan-Africa and global in vision” with phase 1 – the build – which included:

  • The design and development of the framework, toolkits, training materials, etc;
  • ACES acting as the African reference and knowledge development “Hub”;
  • The first SPOKE in Kenya, led by the Africa Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), which acts as the reference SPOKE and support team for roll-out into other Africa markets.

Current - Successful roll-out in Africa

With the successful roll-out of the programme in Kenya;

  • Three further SPOKE's are now in development across, Rwanda, Senegal and Lesotho
  • The model has been replicated in India, in design with the Governments of Haryana and Telangana, delivering a Centre of Excellence in Haryana.

The Future - Global mobalisation

The Clean Cooling Network roll-out will move into its second main phase in 2025, expanding across other African markets along with Malaysia and Brazil, delivering Centres of Excellence and SPOKE's as required.

 

Clean Cooling Roil-out

Continual growth

Progressing the build of the online knowledge platform enables us to tie together all the knowledge sources and wealth of stakeholders resulting in, The Clean Cooling Network, offering:

  • News & events across the Clean Cooling Network;
  • Courses offering training and professional development within our Academy
  • Toolkits and models to help analyse cold-chain requirements, implementation strategies and strategies;
  • Publications from the Clean Cooling international academics, including scientific research and analysis.

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