GrowHer: Kakao
The project will enhance gender equity in the cocoa value chain by addressing social and environmental issues. The initiative will invest in culturally sensitive training and resources, leveraging local governance, and challenging gender-based power structures. It seeks to empower women farmers and supply chain partners to train others, improve government policies to support women's leadership, address harmful social norms for equitable decision-making, and increase women's and girls' participation in advocacy and village development planning. Further, GrowHer: Kakao will actively work to inform gender-transformative policymaking in Indonesia and ASEAN, incorporating climate-smart practices to highlight women's vital role in climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia.
The project at glance
Commodity: Cocoa
Country: Indonesia
Project goal: The project will enhance gender equity in the cocoa value chain by addressing social and environmental issues. The initiative will invest in culturally sensitive training and resources, leveraging local governance, and challenging gender-based power structures. It seeks to empower women farmers and supply chain partners to train others, improve government policies to support women's leadership, address harmful social norms for equitable decision-making, and increase women's and girls' participation in advocacy and village development planning. Further, GrowHer: Kakao will actively work to inform gender-transformative policymaking in Indonesia and ASEAN, incorporating climate-smart practices to highlight women's vital role in climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia.
Project duration: 12/2022 - 03/2026
