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    • Cocoa quality: Acknowledging and building on the role of women
    • Improving productivity by acknowledging the role of women
    • Removing barriers for women to access and benefit from services
    • Women’s empowerment is crucial to improve cocoa farmers’ livelihoods
    • The role of education in empowering young women in West African cocoa communities
  • Tools
    • The Gender Capacity Assessment Tool
    • Gender Focused Situational Analysis
    • Gender sensitive data collection and gender analysis
    • Assessing the role of women in cocoa producer organizations
    • Setting Up a School Garden
    • VSLA and Food Crop Tool
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  • About this Tool
  • Introduction
  • Steps
    • Step 1: Building on VSLA groups: group visions, objectives, and group dynamics
    • Step 2: Group Training
    • Step 3: Collective marketing and processing
    • Step 4: Sustainability
  • Cases
  • Appendix
  • About this Tool
  • Introduction
  • Steps
    • Step 1: Assessing women's roles in productive and reproductive spheres
    • Step 2: Assess women's access to producer organizations
    • Step 3: Assess women's participation in producer organizations
    • Step 4: Assess women's participation as producer organization leaders
    • Step 5: Suggestions for effective intervention packages
  • Cases
  • Appendix
  • About this Tool
  • Introduction
  • Steps
    • Step 1: Prepare for the assessment
    • Step 2: Review organizational documents
    • Step 3: Assessment questionnaire
    • Step 4: Conduct focus group discussions
    • Step 5: Synthesize and share results
  • Cases
  • Appendix
  • About this Tool
  • Introduction
  • Steps
    • Step 1: Defining learning objectives
    • Step 2: Selection of data collection methods
    • Step 3: Analyse your data
    • Step 4: Use your data and analysis, linked to your learning objectives
  • Cases
  • Appendix
  • About this Tool
  • Introduction
  • Steps
    • Step 1: Defining your stakeholders
    • Step 2: Stakeholder analysis
    • Step 3: Defining the type of garden to establish
    • Step 4: School garden set up
    • Step 5: Garden management
    • Step 6: Development of the curriculum
  • Cases
  • Appendix
  • About this Tool
  • Introduction
  • Steps
    • Step 1: Desk study
    • Step 2: Field Work
    • Step 3: Analysis
    • Step 4: Recommendations, validation and follow-up
  • Cases
  • Appendix

The Gender and Cocoa Livelihoods Toolbox

Welcome to the Gender and Cocoa Livelihood Toolbox

  • This toolbox has been created for the World Cocoa Foundation, its industry partners and other implementing partners to increase understanding and to address gender inequalities in the cocoa sector.
  • The tools are developed with a strong conviction that a good understanding and transformation of gender relations in cocoa production plays an important role in the sustainability drive of the cocoa industry
  • The tools support in achieving the objectives of the Cocoa Livelihood Program Phase II: Increasing Productivity, Improving Service Delivery and Farm Resilience
  • the tools contribute to the following themes: - Understanding the arguments for addressing gender inequalities in the cocoa sector. - Understanding the social aspects of cocoa production: who plays what role on a family farm, who benefits and who has decision making power.

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