Description
CARE's Pathways Program builds on the Village Savings and Loans Associations Model and other existing collectives to support Farmer Field and Business Schools (FFBS) with women farmers. The project focuses on improving the productivity and profitability of poor smallholder women farmers by helping empower women to fully engage in agricultural systems. FFBS provides training that follows the seasonal cycle, so that farmers can apply what they are learning (about sustainable agriculture or market engagement) in real time and includes specific training modules on gender to create an understanding of workload burden, access to and ownership of resources, gender-based violence, household decision making and power analysis. Some sessions engage men and boys to support women's empowerment and changes in gender relations; and similar sessions also involve whole communities.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Increasing Women's Control of Assets
Description
Enabling women's access to inclusive markets. Applying the best of our food and water systems and women's economic justice approaches, we will aim to unlock greater production, expansion of profits and social and environmental returns for women from small-scale agriculture. We will increase food, water and nutrition security and climate resilience through the promotion of women producers' ability to participate and take leadership in collectives and service delivery to voice their needs, access input markets, negotiate better outcomes, make decisions in market systems, and play non-traditional roles such as aggregators, innovators and WASH service providers and business leaders thereby transforming markets to become more inclusive, sustainable and just. We will also ensure our market systems work builds resilience so that communities can better absorb and adapt to economic, social, political or environmental shocks.
GNR assessment
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Unverified
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| SMARTness index |
Low
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Details
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
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Food supply chain
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Percent of women who own or control at least one productive asset |
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| Baseline | TBD | 2021 |
| Target | TBD | November 2030 |
Progress
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| Progress report | 431,000 women have participated in decisions about agricultural production and household income | November 2023 |
