Webinar: changing the terms of women's engagement in cocoa and coffee supply chains

1. CHANGING THE TERMS OF
WOMEN’S ENGAGEMENT IN COCOA
AND COFFEE SUPPLY CHAINS
A WEBINAR HOSTED BY THE GENDER IN COCOA AND COFFEE INITIATIVE
AND CONVENED BY FAO AND KIT ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE

2. THE GENDER IN COCOA AND
COFFEE INITIATIVE
• 2016 FAO, KIT and TWIN established a
partnership to implement the cocoa initiative
to foster gender equitable coffee and cocoa
value chains
• Why coffee and cocoa?
• Similar constrains and issues faced by rural
women, as well as analogous gender issues
experienced by stakeholders in both chains
• Interest expressed by a variety of actors and
evidence of existence of good practices
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3. COCOA AND COFFEE
INITIATIVE’S OBJECTIVES
• Identify innovative approaches and strategies
• Systematize good practices that can be widely
shared
• Create a space of dialogue among a range of
actors to facilitate knowledge dissemination
and exchange of experiences and foster
collaboration
• Enhance the gender related capacities of the
different actors in both sectors
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4. KEY ACTIVITIES Overview of activities carried out by the Cocoa and Coffee Initiative
Multi-stakeholder consultation
The Initiative brought together
about 50 participants from the
coffee and cocoa sector in how to
foster gender sensitive producer
organisations and VC
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2017 workshop
The Initiative organized a workshop
where participants from eight
organizations presented, compared
and reflected on their case studies.
Publication
Published in 2017 and titled:
“Changing the terms of engagement
in cocoa and coffee supply chains”
Webinar series
Webinar series to launch of
publication and thematic
discussions

5. PUBLICATION: CHANGING THE
TERMS OF WOMEN’S ENGAGEMENT
IN COFFEE & COCOA
• Maintains thematic comparison between
coffee & cocoa experiences
• Explores interventions at different levels in
value chain
• Tells the ‘story’ of each intervention and also
analyses lessons and applicability
• Adds to business case and draws overall
conclusions about what combination of
interventions is effective
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6. PUBLICATION: CHANGING THE
TERMS OF WOMEN’S ENGAGEMENT
IN COFFEE & COCOA
Cases:
• Women’s integration in POs: Pangoa, Peru and
work by Twin with new cocoa PO in Sierra
Leone Goleagorbu
• Promoting women’s access to land: Kokoo Pa
in Ghana and Mzuzu Coffee, Malawi
• Improving business performance through a HH
approach: HRNS and SMS-ECOM, Kenya
• Promoting women as trainers and extension
services providers : Mondelēz International
and Nespresso
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7. CONCLUSIONS (1)
• Intrahousehold gender relations have to be addressed, but…
• Changes at different levels do not automatically translate - interventions
are needed at all levels for systemic change
• Bottom-up and top-down approaches both have value!
• System change also includes changing practices and knowledge within
companies, not only at origin
• Some changes take longer (eg policy/legal framework) but there is no
need to wait, everyone can be an agent of change. And good practice
can be used for advocacy
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8. CONCLUSIONS (2)
• Women’s voices and perspectives must be at the heart, therefore
women’s leadership development is important
• ‘Scaling up’ requires adaptation to context, even within
regions/countries
• Knowledge sharing and collaboration between different actors are key
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9. JOYCE POKU-MARBOAH
KOKOO PA
Business Development Manager & Gender Focal person
at Kokoo Pa
From 352 members & 11% women to 10,600 members &
35% women
Lesson
• making the registration of portions of male member-
farmers lands in the name of their wives as a
requirement to join a PO, together with gender
training & sensitization, has been effective in
increasing women’s membership & has brought other
benefits
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10. PETER NDAMBIRI
SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT
SERVICES (ECOM) KENYA
Sustainability Manager at SMS
Working on gender with Hivos since 2009
Implementing GALS since 2014, integrated into Good
Agricultural Practices training
Lessons:
• Integrating GALS into GAP training is cost effective
and strengthens GAP training
• Work on HH gender dynamics increases women’s
motivation to invest in coffee
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11. GENDER ACTION LEARNING
SYSTEMS (GALS)
• GALS is a community-led empowerment methodology that
aims to give women as well as men more control over their
lives and catalyze and support a movement for gender justice.
• It works through diagrammatic tools and other popular
learning methods (song, role play)
• The process supports families to develop visions and plans,
analyse gender constraints and take action to address them
• GAMEchange Network
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12. INTERVIEW
Q & A
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13. WEBINAR THEMES
Living income / price and
gender in coffee & cocoa:
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Climate Change
Use your voice
'‘Feminization of agriculture'',
consequences for cocoa &
coffee Women and land access
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14. THANK YOU
If you would like to receive an invitation for the next webinar
and a digital summary of this webinar, please email Andrea
Vos at A.Vos@kit.nl
You can find the publication and the recording of this webinar,
including more information about the Gender in Cocoa and Coffee
Initiative here: https://www.kit.nl/project/gender-in-coffee-and-
cocoa-initiative/