Exporting agricultural products requires documenting origin, handling, and safety — but many smallholder producers lack formal systems. This course trains value chain actors to establish traceability systems that prove product safety and meet buyer and regulatory requirements for domestic and export markets.

Participants learn record-keeping, certification, and compliance practices that open export opportunities while reducing food safety risks.

Throughout the programme, participants work through realistic scenarios drawn from public sector institutions, private enterprises, development organizations, and regulated professional environments, examining how traceability and phytosanitary issue is applied in practice and where it most often breaks down. Delegates will develop practical skill in designing appropriate frameworks, selecting and applying the right tools for designing farm-level record-keeping, interpreting findings, and communicating conclusions clearly to colleagues, management and external stakeholders. Sessions move deliberately from principles to application, so that each technique introduced is practised against a realistic problem before the programme moves on — strengthening both individual effectiveness and the wider capability of the organizations delegates return to.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Develop robust traceability and phytosanitary issue frameworks that support successful implementation and measurable outcomes.
• Analyze performance using recognized evaluation methods drawn from designing farm-level record-keeping.
• Design practical systems that strengthen accountability, transparency and evidence generation.
• Evaluate outcomes and assess longer-term impact across a range of operating contexts.
• Apply relevant tools, frameworks and analytical methodologies confidently and appropriately.
• Integrate preparing for GAP certification audits into existing organizational processes and reporting structures.
• Strengthen decision-making and operational effectiveness through evidence-based professional practice.

This course is for value chain actors who must prove where their produce came from and that it meets import market plant health requirements.

• Export Compliance and Quality Assurance Officers
• Agribusiness and Value Chain Managers
• Cooperative and Farmer Group Compliance Officers
• Government Plant Health and Phytosanitary Inspectors
• Food Safety and Standards Officers
• Exporters and Produce Aggregators Serving Regional and Export Markets
• Agricultural Officers and Extension Staff

By the end of the Traceability and Phytosanitary Issue Training, participants will leave with:

• A comprehensive working understanding of traceability and phytosanitary issue principles and performance-measurement methodology.
• Enhanced ability to design practical systems and evaluate outcomes reliably.
• Improved competency in designing farm-level record-keeping, reporting structures and analytical interpretation.
• Practical techniques for translating findings into strategic insight and clear recommendations.
• Greater confidence in applying traceability and phytosanitary issue and assessing measurable results.
• Stronger capability to support organizational learning and continuous performance improvement.
• Improved approaches to strengthening sustainability, accountability and operational effectiveness.

This training course adopts a practical, participant-centered learning approach that builds traceability and phytosanitary issue expertise, strengthens analytical capability and develops confident professional judgement. The methodology combines specialist facilitation, applied hands-on experience and globally recognized professional practice, so that delegates return able to apply what they have learned immediately rather than in theory only.

Methodology includes:

• Expert-led sessions facilitated by experienced traceability and phytosanitary issue practitioners and subject-matter specialists.
• Practical application of the frameworks, tools and techniques used in designing farm-level record-keeping.
• Real-world case studies drawn from public sector institutions, private enterprises, development organizations, and regulated professional environments.
• Tool-based demonstrations of the systems, templates and reporting applications used in current practice.
• Interactive discussion and scenario-based learning focused on realistic challenges and decision points.
• Structured group exercises with facilitator feedback, reinforcing learning through practice rather than lecture alone.

Participants who complete the five days receive a Certificate of Completion from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, confirming their grounding in traceability system design and phytosanitary compliance.

Certificates are issued in the delegate’s name on completion of the programme and are suitable for submission towards continuing professional development requirements. Vision Reach Global Consultancy verifies every certificate it issues on request.