Our projects
Our Foundation works to improve livelihoods through
the development of sustainable businesses and
income-generating initiatives across Sub-Saharan
Africa and Latin America.
Working in partnership with local organisations including producer groups, universities, NGOs and Fair Trade Country Networks, we implement projects that aim to:
- Support the development of sustainable income generating enterprises to improve livelihoods and contribute towards a reduction in poverty.
- Economically and socially empower women and youth to improve participation in economic activities and increase their income.
- Support farmers to implement climate adaption techniques to build their climate resilience and increase environmental protection
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Over the past year, we delivered 15 projects, that supported the development of innovative solutions to strengthen the climate resilience of producers, created income-generating opportunities for women and young people, and established enterprises, which generate vital income for rural communities.
While we support all the SDGs, we believe our projects align most closely with No Poverty (1), Gender Equality (5), Decent Work and Economic Growth (8), Climate Action (13) and Partnerships for the Goals (17). These areas are represented in our ongoing projects along with an additional theme of ‘Youth Engagement’.
We have projects at all different stages. This year, we launched five new projects:
- Empowering women through vegetable cultivation: Funded from designated unrestricted funds.
- Crafting Fairer Futures: Improving livelihoods of artisans through sustainable and eco-friendly handcraft production funded from designated unrestricted funds.
- Sustainable Coffee Futures: Building climate and value chain resilience in Cyato, Rwanda funded by Appui au Développement Autonome (ADA) through the SSNUP programme.
- Enhancing women’s livelihoods: By increasing the economic value of shea funded by Guernsey Overseas Aid Commission.
- Growing Fairer Futures: Empowering young cocoa farmers through beekeeping integration funded by Chocolonely Foundation.
During the year, we continued to manage existing projects: one project in Uganda supporting female groundnut farmers through value addition; an organic biopesticide development project aimed at increasing the resilience of cocoa farmers across Côte d'Ivoire, and our Growing Fairer Futures initiative supporting young cocoa farmers, also being implemented in Côte d'Ivoire.
We also concluded six projects:
- Bees for Business Rwenzori: jointly funded by Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust, along with a Trust wishing to remain anonymous and designated unrestricted funds.
- Soilless Farming Burkina Faso: Funded by E A Foundation.
- Improving Livelihoods through Shea Agro-processing: funded by Evan Cornish Foundation
- Bees for Business Kabwohe: Funded by Fitzer Lacy Trust.
- Technical Assistance Increasing the profitability and sustainability of producer groups: Funded from designated unrestricted funds.
- Improving the resilience of young farmers through the production of dehydrated coffee pulp: Funded from our designated unrestricted funds
This year, we also formally closed our project Strengthening the Resilience of Coffee Farmers in Uganda through Income Diversification following the completion of an impact assessment four years after the activities officially ended. The results of this assessment are available on page 59.
Details of all these projects and their impact are provided in Part II of the Social Accounts.
Click here to read the full Social Accounts document.
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