Commitment

Women's engagement in income generating activities

Civil society organisation / United States of America

December 2020 — November 2030

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.

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Details

Target population characteristic
  • Age or life course stage/status
  • Community geography
  • Economic status of country
  • Gender identity
  • Indigenous status
  • Refugee status or status as an internally displaced person
  • Socioeconomic status
Linked event(s)
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
  • 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Food
  • Health
  • Financing

Measurement

Key indicator Percent increase in number of women engaged in income-generating activities
Value Measurement date
Baseline TBD 2021
Target TBD November 2030

Progress

Status:
Progress not able to be assessed
Why this status?
Despite the commitment maker’s active participation in the process, they were unable to provide the required information about the baseline data or the progress indicator's updated (latest) level or status, or the data provided were not in a format allowing calculation of progress.
Value Measurement date
Progress report 114,539 November 2023

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