Gender-responsive intervention in the traditional onion value chain in Postribe community
GENDER-RESPONSIVE
INTERVENTION IN
IN THE TRADITIONAL
ONION VALUE CHAIN
IN POSTRIBE
COMMUNITY
PROJECT BACKGROUND
Despite making a significant contribution to the agricultural sector, rural women living in Northern Albania are often invisible actors, forced to operate informally, without rights, burdened by the domestic work and in a strongly patriarchal cultural context.
The project acts for empowering a group of rural women from the remote Postribe community by enhancing their traditional role in the onion value chain and providing access to knowledge, productive resources and leadership opportunities.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
PROJECT BACKGROUND
Despite making a significant contribution to the agricultural sector, rural women living in Northern Albania are often invisible actors, forced to operate informally, without rights, burdened by the domestic work and in a strongly patriarchal cultural context.
The project acts for empowering a group of rural women from the remote Postribe community by enhancing their traditional role in the onion value chain and providing access to knowledge, productive resources and leadership opportunities.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
GOAL
The project aims to empower women in the onion value chain by enhancing their access to knowledge, productive resources and leadership opportunities.
The intervention will improve productivity and quality through GAPs, strengthen post-harvest infrastructure and market access, introduce gender-sensitive tools and mechanization, ultimately enabling them to become empowered economic actors within their communities.
GOAL
The project aims to empower women in the onion value chain by enhancing their access to knowledge, productive resources and leadership opportunities.
The intervention will improve productivity and quality through GAPs, strengthen post-harvest infrastructure and market access, introduce gender-sensitive tools and mechanization, ultimately enabling them to become empowered economic actors within their communities.
ACTIVITIES
1.INCREASE ACCESS TO QUALIFIED VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN AGRICULTURE AND THE LEADERSHIP ROLE OF 30 WOMEN FROM POSTRIBE COMMUNITY
- Comprehensive training program on Onion Value Chain Development and technical support.
- Best-practices exchange and group support on women leadership.
- Basic training program on business management, financial literacy and promotion of typical agri-food products.
- Participatory workshop for mid-term evaluation.
2.INCREASE ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION, STORAGE AND SALES ASSETS FOR 30 WOMEN FROM POSTRIBE COMMUNITY
- Equipment distribution and technical support.
- Set-up of basic post-harvest infrastructure and storage.
- Demonstration, promotion and sales support activities.
- Final learning and dissemination workshop.
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Discover our projects and enjoy the reading!!
“Mini-grants for Micro Service Providers in the Tourism Sector for the sustainable development of the Kosovar stretch of the Via Dinarica.”
