Recognition, verification and responsible digital registration of traditional medicine practitioners — separate from traditional knowledge ownership and from herbal product authorisation.
A comparative regulatory pilot for the recognition of traditional medicine practitioners across Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, within existing national frameworks and with community/custodian recognition at its core.
ACE keeps the registry, the marketplace and the heritage record separate. Each answers a different question. This page is the registry.
Who is this practitioner?
Practitioner registration, identity verification and the staged verification levels from Applicant to Pilot Verified.
What service or product is available?
Find a practitioner, book a consultation, browse services and registered traditional products from verified providers.
Open the Marketplace → HeritageWhat knowledge, practice or heritage is associated with it?
Traditional knowledge, custodian records, formulations and cultural heritage — documented under community control.
Open Heritage Studio →The ACE Platform treats three different things as three different registries. Keeping them separate protects both the community and the individual practitioner.
Who is the practitioner, where do they practise, and what is their recognised area of practice? This page.
What knowledge, practice, formulation, ritual or plant knowledge belongs to a community or custodian?
What products or preparations are being produced, tested, registered or traded?
Verification is a staged process. Registration does not automatically make a practitioner verified, and verification is not a licence to practise or to sell.
Information submitted but not yet verified.
Identity and basic information checked.
National or recognised institutional verification completed.
Community or traditional authority recognition documented.
Verified for the Ethiopia–Zimbabwe pilot under the agreed framework.
The Registry shows who is registered. The Marketplace shows what is available — consultations, services, and registered traditional products.