Grants and Contributions

This project aims to enhance the climate resilience of cocoa producers and their vulnerable families, particularly indigenous ones, in Amazonas, Cajamarca and San Martín. It seeks to promote climate-smart, nature-based solutions (NBS) for small cacao farmers and their families to improve productivity and counter deforestation. The project also strengthens associations and cooperatives to improve governance, business performance, and connections to niche markets. The project focuses on women’s empowerment throughout its implementation to enable greater participation and influence in their families, associations, cooperatives, and the cacao agricultural sector in general.

Project activities include: (1) supporting research on cacao NBS; (2) providing technical training on cacao NBS and technical support for cocoa farmers; (3) helping associations or cooperatives and their members set up and implement diversified cacao agroforestry plots and prepare for ‘zero deforestation’ certification standards; (4) delivering an inclusive organizational strengthening program for participating associations or cooperatives; (5) developing gender-sensitive and climate change-resilient business plans and strategies; (6) setting up transformative women leadership schools within participating associations or cooperatives; and (7) facilitating market access by linking innovative financing mechanisms and connections with potential buyers.

The project directly benefits 30,000 people, consisting of over 6,000 small cacao farmers (70% women) and their families, in the Amazonas, Cajamarca and San Martin provinces, with at least 50% being from indigenous groups. It also indirectly benefits 460,000 people who live off the incomes generated by cocoa plants and derived products by improving governance in the sector and strengthening associations or cooperatives.

This project contributes to poverty reduction in Ukraine by increasing rural women’s income and addressing the deficits in food production caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion, environmental challenges, and persistent gender inequality. The project targets women farmers, members and leadership of selected agricultural cooperatives, agricultural extension services, agricultural marketing boards, and government decision-makers. While the project is focused on supporting women farmers, some support is provided to other vulnerable groups, such as veterans and internally displaced people in the project areas. Project activities include: (1) training and mentoring in landmine safety, climate-smart agriculture and advocacy; (2) introducing improved technology; (3) supporting cooperative development; (4) strengthening market linkages in selected agricultural value chains; and (5) supporting policy dialogue.

This project aims to bolster women’s resilience and adaptive capacity in the face of climate challenges, ensuring they are stronger and empowered. It focuses on enhancing climate change adaptation of 2,000 rural families (1050 headed by women) in Amhara and Oromia regions, significantly impacted by climate change and of 4,000 women entrepreneurs in Addis Ababa, a critical hub for agri-food processing. It places emphasis on implementing climate resilient practices and technologies in key agribusiness value chains, including teff and legumes, by engaging key stakeholders including cooperatives. Technical training, improved technologies, and market development initiatives focus on uplifting teff and legume production of small-holder women farmers and the efficiency and profitability of women entrepreneurs involved in the agri-business value chain. STRONG’HER aims to reduce climate vulnerability in injera and legumes storage and processing activities and address the gap in climate resilient technical knowledge of women entrepreneurs engaged in injera baking and legumes processing. The project also addresses gendered norms, stereotypes and power relations that perpetuate and legitimize inequality.

This project aims to provide a concrete, innovative and transformative solution to the multidimensional marginalization experienced by women and girls involved in domestic work in Guatemala and Honduras. Project activities include: (1) raising awareness among men and boys to achieve recognition and redistribution of care work; (2) providing women and girls with financial literacy training and building their capacity to strengthen the collective enterprise model; (3) conducting training on cooperatives and collective enterprises in order to provide services and develop sustainable business relationships; and (4) building the capacity of women’s organizations and women’s and girls’ rights organizations to better defend female workers’ rights. This initiative is co-implementedby women’s organizations and women’s and girls’ rights organizations, which include the following: the women’s cooperative movement (Consejo Nacional de las Mujeres Cooperativistas in Guatemala and Consejo Nacional de la Mujer Cooperativista in Honduras), groups of paid care workers and domestic workers (Asociación de Trabajadoras del Hogar a Domicilio y de Maquila, Centro de Apoyo para las Trabajadoras de Casa Particular in Guatemala, and Red de Trabajadoras Domésticas in Honduras), as well as organizations with strong community roots known for their efforts to transform unequal power relations, such as the Asociación Generando Equidad, Liderazgo y Oportunidades and the Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala.

The project is expected to reach 4,500 women and 1,250 girls involved in paid care work in Guatemala and Honduras.

The Natur'ELLES project aims to increase the adaptation to climate change of women and their vulnerable communities in the mangrove ecosystems of marine protected areas (MPA) of the Saloum and Casamance deltas in Senegal. SOCODEVI has established an operational and technical partnership with IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), as well as technical partnerships with IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development) and Ostrom Climate Solutions. The activities of this project include: (1) supporting women's collective entrepreneurship projects maintaining mangrove biodiversity;( 2) developing a feminist environmental leadership and climate agency program for women in the Indigenous Community Heritage Areas and Territories; (3) supporting functional and financial literacy programs for vulnerable women in the Indigenous Community Heritage Areas and Territories; and (4) supporting community implementation of the MPA Ecological Restoration and Management Plans (ERMPs) based on Nature-based Solutions in the Indigenous Community Heritage Areas and Territories.

The project will contribute to the climate change adaptation of 8,000 people, including 6,000 women and their vulnerable communities in the mangrove ecosystems of the marine protected areas of the Sine Saloum and Casamance deltas in Senegal. It will reach more than 85,000 indirect beneficiaries in the 113 intervention villages.

This project aims to increase the adaptation of young rural women and their communities to climate change in the Guéra province of Chad. The project also contributes to strengthening the skills and effectiveness of groups and cooperatives in developing climate-smart food systems with and for young women groundnut and sesame producers.

Project activities include: (1) training women in peanut and sesame production in soil restoration and conservation techniques adapted to water stress and based on improved local knowledge; (2 ) implementing community reforestation and restoration campaigns for strategic aquatic and wetland ecosystems. This is for adaptation to climate change based on nature-based solutions that meet the needs of young women groundnut and sesame producers and their communities; (3) supporting groups and cooperatives in developing high-value marketing channels for young women producers; and (4) setting up pilot leadership laboratories supporting innovative and non-traditional social, economic and environmental initiatives of young rural women in the field of Climate Change Adaptation.

The direct beneficiaries of the project are 5,000 people, mainly women peanut and sesame farmers, and their communities, including 3,500 women and young women and 1,500 men and young men. Indirect beneficiaries are estimated at more than 45,000 family members of the direct project beneficiaries.

This project aims to increase the resilience of rural communities, especially women and youth, to climate change by sustainably improving biodiversity and connectivity of strategic ecosystems. The conservation of ecosystems, biodiversity and the benefits derived from them, also implies improving the effectiveness of members of farmers' organizations and cooperatives, to develop agroforestry value chains that respect biodiversity and are adapted to climate change. And finally, in a context marked by conflicts, the sustainability of the results implies an increased commitment of local communities, in favor of an inclusive and equitable governance of natural resources.
This project, based on a nexus approach, will promote access to sustainable economic opportunities and the reduction of inequalities, especially for women and youth, in order to counter threats from climate change and desertification, but also extremism. This project will directly benefit over 10,000 people, of whom 8,000 are women in 12 communities; 12 farmer organizations; and 200 community leaders in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region.

This project aims to support the operationalization of the axes of the Forest Strategy 2030 to prevent overexploitation and lack of valuation of the forest sector in Morocco. The project’s contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Forest Strategy will take the form of technical support, expertise and support on the ground, in order to help achieve the expected results. The activities of this project include: 1) differentiating and developing national parks and productive forests to maximise their efficiency in terms of valorisation, environmental preservation and conservation; 2) reinvent and restructure the participatory approach around local issues and based on incentives aimed at making the population the primary forest partner; 3) reform the institutions around agencies based on a legal framework adapted to the success of the implementation of dynamic management of spaces, open to partnerships and oriented towards performance.

The Inclusive Development of the Green Tara Value Chain in Bolivia - SAYARIY (Quechua language word that means to stand up, with strength and energy to consolidate our work and achieve our dreams) project aims to ensure economic, social and environmental sustainability of producing families, mainly from indigenous communities. The tara pod is extracted from the seeds of a tree high in the Andes. Tara is a high value crop used in the tanning of premium leather. Its seeds are used as stabilizing ingredients in cosmetics and food. This Andean plant improves soil quality, promotes biodiversity and helps combat the impacts of climate change. The project aims to regenerate tara production by planting new trees in areas where it had disappeared and where the land is severely degraded. It also contributes to developing the entire value chain from production to marketing, in order to guarantee its profitability, increase the annual income of families and ultimately stimulate the local economy. Finally, the project aims to increase the resilience of vulnerable indigenous populations to climate change and to the diversification of agroforestry in rural areas of Bolivia. Increasing the family income of tara producers will contribute to reduce their food insecurity and diversify their income-generating activities.

This project aims to increase the economic empowerment of omen and youth and their participation in decent work activities within tourism-related sectors in the Lake Atitlán area of Sololá, Guatemala. This project contributes to increasing the skills of Indigenous omen and youth and their access to resources. Project activities include the following: (1) strengthening support for women and youth to access and pursue specialized and adapted training related to the sustainable tourism sector; (2) improving tourism-related organizations’ capacity to implement good practices in inclusive governance and administrative, financial and environmental management; and (3) building public and private institutions’ capacity to promote inclusive economic development in the area, while ensuring that the rights of women are respected. The initiative covers 15 municipalities and aims to benefit 1,250 Indigenous women and youth. The activities, as well as the investments with public and private actors, particularly in terms of tourism infrastructures, significantly expand the scope of the project and are expected to reach 468,045 people.