Ethiopia

CQI Projects

GDA

Year: 2004

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: CQI

Other Partners: ACDI/VOCA

Activity Title: 

  • Quality Control and Marketing
  • Wet Processing
  • Dry Processing
  • Cupping and Auction

Agro Eco

Year: 2006

Funding Entity: Agro Eco

Prime Implementer: CQI

Activity Title: Pruning and Composting

REAP

Year: 2006

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: Fintrac, Inc

Activity Title: Agronomy and Processing

Year: 2007

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: Fintrac, Inc

Activity Title:

  • Contracts
  • Cupping and Auction
  • Barista
  • Contracts

Year: 2019

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: Fintrac, Inc

Activity Title: AGP2 Kickoff – Local Project Development

RATES

Year: 2007

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: Chemonics

Activity Title:

  • Differential Trading
  • Cupping, Roasting and ToH
  • ToH Judging

ATEP

Year: 2007

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: Fintrac, Inc

Activity Title:

  • Star Cupper
  • Q Marketing

Year: 2008

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: Fintrac, Inc

Activity Title:

  • Q Grader
  • Calibration and ICP Development
  • ICP/Marketing

Year: 2008

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: Fintrac, Inc

Activity Title:

  • Q Grader
  • Concordance Exervices
  • Cupping and Field Labs

Year: 2010

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: Fintrac, Inc

Activity Title:

  • Q Alignment and ICP Training + Q Course
  • Q Launch

COMPLETE

Year: 2010

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: Chemonics

Activity Title: ICP Lab Training and Taste of Harvest

Year: 2011

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: Chemonics

Activity Title: Cupper Calibration and Taste of Harvest

AGP-AMDe

Year: 2011

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: ACDI/VOCA

Activity Title:

  • Survey and Interviews
  • Staffing and Work Plan

Year: 2012

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: ACDI/VOCA

Activity Title:

  • Coffee Intervention Consultation Meeting
  • Strategic Planning
  • Cupper Calibrations, ICP Training, Lab Assessment
  • Ethiopia Taste of Harvest
  • Standars and Grading System Assessment
  • Q Grader Course and Retakes
  • Coffee Caravan So.
  • Exporter Summit
  • Advances Training for ECX and Regional Labs
  • International Standards Workshop
  • Standard and Grading System Workshop
  • Roast Industry Capacity Building Program
  • Honey Processing Training
  • Coffee Export Strategy Meetings
  • SCAA Conference Participation

Year: 2013

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: ACDI/VOCA

Activity Title:

  • ECEI: Promotion Initiative Support
  • ECEI: Procurement Initiative Support
  • Calibration and Taste of Harvest
  • Cupping
  • AFCA Conference
  • Quality Improvement Support at SCAA
  • Promotion and Marketing at SCAA
  • SCAA Laboratory Certification
  • Q Calibrations, Q Grader Course and Retakes
  • Strategy Meetings and Stakeholder Planning
  • Stakeholder Planning and Promotional Strategy
  • ECX Standard Review
  • ECX Business Development and Stakeholder Meeting
  • Lab Certification
  • Taste of Harvest Preparation
  • Q Grader Course
  • New Processing Equipment
  • Data Quality Assessment and Metrics and Evaluation
  • Exporters Conference

Year: 2014

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: ACDI/VOCA

Activity Title:

  • Traceability Program and Quality Improvement
  • Q Grader Course and ICP
  • EFC Promotions
  • EIAR Coffee Quality Flavor Profile Mapping
  • Q Instructor Course
  • Q Course
  • Market Intelligence Workshop
  • ECEA Lab, ICP Advanvement
  • ECEA Conference
  • Executive Visit
  • AGP AFCA Conference

Year: 2015

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: ACDI/VOCA

Activity Title:

  • AGP SCAA Conference
  • Q Grader Course
  • AFCA Farm to Market
  • Q Course 
  • OTG Logistics
  • CQI Q Assistant Instructor Training
  • Pre Q and Retakes

CQI Funded Activity

Year: 2017

Funding Entity: CQI

Prime Implementer: CQI

Activity Title: Ethiopia Stakeholder Meetings

Year: 2018

Funding Entity: CQI

Prime Implementer: CQI

Activity Title: Ethiopia Stakeholder Meetings

Year: 2024

Funding Entity: CQI

Prime Implementer: CQI

Activity Title: AFCA Conference Addis Ababa

CQI Funded Activity

Year: 2019

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: Fintrac, Inc

Activity Title: 

  • AGP2 Local Project Coordinator
  • Business and Association Development and Collaborative Research
  • Gender Program Implementation
  • Q Arabica Grader Trainings and Lab Inspection
  • PGE Rapid Assessment GALS Methodology
  • QP2
  • Q Arabica Retakes
  • Jr. Cupping Training

Year: 2020

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: Fintrac, Inc

Activity Title: 

  • Jr. Cupper Training
  • Q Course
  • Lab Assessments

Year: 2021

Funding Entity: USAID

Prime Implementer: Fintrac, Inc

Activity Title: 

  • Jr. Cupper Training
  • QCE and Q Retakes

NTF V

Year: 2023

Funding Entity: ITC

Prime Implementer: ITC

Activity Title: Intro Cupper Series

CQI has been involved in this seminal coffee origin since 2003 when Coffee Corps volunteers visited Ethiopia to train cuppers. Through Coffee Corps, USAID funded projects with ACDI/VOCA, DAI, Fintrac, SNV and private companies, CQI has done many trainings and events.

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