Empowering Women through Sustainable Agriculture
Cooperative Development Organisation
Implementing Partners and Organisations
Foundation for Agrarian Reform Cooperatives in Mindanao, Inc.
Period of Implementation
January 2018 - December 2022
Geographic scope
Asia-Pacific: Philippines
Budget
$ 262,500
€ 250 000
Donor(s)
Bilateral Aid: Sida/Civsam
Sector(s)
Agriculture & Fisheries
Type of Activity
Governance and Organizational Strengthening, Institutional Building and Policy Dialogue, Legal and Regulatory framework, Value Chains / Socioeconomic Circuits
Project Objectives
Mainly, the project aims to strenghten partner cooperatives of FARMCOOP in Sibulan Ancestral Domain and Agrarian Reform Beneficaries in Agusan de Sur towards institutionalization of gender equality as a fundamental value in development choices and institutional practice. In the process, the project hopes to enhance women’s participation in the governance and management of their organizations - in sustainable production and in the value chain of commodities their produce - and in policy-making to develop their specific communities and the agrarian reform beneficiaries and indigenous peoples in general.
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Impact on SDGs
SDG2 - Zero Hunger
SDG5 - Gender Equality
SDG15 - Life on Land
Local stakeholders
Groups of farmers