Project profile — SABORES de Honduras: Empowering Women and Youth in Coffee and Honey Value Chains

• Honduras (100.00%)

• Government And Civil Society, General: Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (15.00%)
• Business And Other Services: Business Development Services (25030) (20.00%)
• Agricultural policy and administrative management:
Agricultural policy and administrative management (31110) (15.00%)
Agricultural development (31120) (25.00%)
Agricultural co-operatives (31194) (25.00%)

• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Trade development (significant objective)
• Climate Change Adaptation (significant objective)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (principal objective)

The project contributes to sustainably increase the economic empowerment of 15,000 women, men and youth in the coffee and honey value chains in Honduras. It seeks to support the economic recovery in the context of pandemic, socio-economic shocks and climate change. The project’s activities include: 1) implementing an equitable access to land program for women and young women; 2) training in education, financial management, and leadership focused on women's rights and positive masculinities; and 3) establishing productive agroforestry systems; 4) creating a social enterprise from responsible private investments; 5) training associations and social enterprises on good governance and inclusive management practices through the PerformCoop program, as well as on improving the quality of sales products; 5) implementing an innovative marketing and commercialization strategy; 6) establishing a microcredit and climate finance program; 7) establishing a coordination mechanism to create an inclusive gender-sensitive business environment that is also sensitive to environmental challenges; 8) establishing communication and advocacy mechanisms for the economic empowerment of women and young people with local and national stakeholders.

The expected intermediate results include: (1) strengthened resilience to socio-economic shocks and climate change of women and youth in inclusive and equitable family-run agroforestry businesses in targeted regions; (2) improved performance of associative enterprises and the social enterprise to support the resilience to climate change and economic prosperity of women and youth. The emphasis is specifically on young women in diversified climate-smart agroforestry systems; and (3) improved efficiency of the business environment to sustainably support the economic empowerment of women and youth, especially young women, in diversified agroforestry systems in the context of socio-economic shocks and climate change.

Results achieved as of March 2023 include: (1) trained 43 women in women's business leadership and women's rights; (2) 41% of women are members of governing bodies and support committees, a 5% increase from the baseline study; (3) 163 members of the Board of Directors, support committees and employees trained in the effective participation of women and youth; and (4) 18 partnerships formed with 8 Municipal Women's' Offices (OMMs), 6 Municipal Mayors' Offices and 4 Municipal Youth Offices.

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