Title:
Women's adaptation and leadership for sustainable impact in rural economic zones
Agreement Number:
7466574 P014239001
Agreement Value:
$11,500,000.00
Agreement Date:
Feb 17, 2026 - Mar 31, 2031
Description:
The ALIZE project implemented under a “pay-for-results” model aims to improve climate and economic resilience by implementing climate smart agriculture to protect biodiversity, farmers and their associations, enhancing the equitable adaptation to climate change for vulnerable rural women, particularly Indigenous women, and their cacao-growing communities. Project activities include: 1) developing and diversifying agroforestry systems based on gender-responsive climate smart agriculture, including for agricultural and domestic water access and management, reducing the vulnerabilities of women and their communities to climate change; 2) providing women-led technical assistance services on climate change adaptation in cacao-growing communities, including training on consolidating commercialization services for enhanced quality and certified cacao and gender-responsive financial products and services, such as financial literacy training; 3) delivering sessions on positive masculinities, recognizing women’s unpaid care work and promoting their leadership and decision-making related to natural resources governance.
Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Expected Results:
The expected outcomes for this project include: 1) increased adoption by and for women and their communities of gender-responsive agroforestry and water-related nature-based climate solutions incorporating ancestral knowledge for climate change adaptation with biodiversity co-benefits; 2) increased effectiveness of associations/cooperatives to support women sustainable entrepreneurship for climate change adaptation related with diversified cocoa agroforestry systems and/or biodiversity conservation/enhancement; 3) increased inclusive and equitable governance of natural resources supporting climate change adaptation of diverse groups of vulnerable women in cocoa-growing communities and the realization of their rights.
Location:
QUEBEC, Quebec, CA
Reference Number:
064-2025-2026-Q4-0063
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Recipient's Legal Name:
Société de coopération pour le développement international Socodevi
Program:
International Development Assistance program
Program Purpose:
The main purpose on the International Development Assistance Program is to reduce poverty for those living in countries where Global Affairs Canada engages in international development.