cooperative, with a particular emphasis on leadership and decision
-making
roles. Strengthening women’s participation at these levels helps ensure that women’s perspectives are represented and taken into account in cooperative decision -making, thereby contributing to greater gender equity. 2. Visibly supporting women in positions of leadership helps model positive gender norms and good practices within communities.
A 2-pronged approach
Tony’s Open Chain through two complementary approaches : 1) gender mainst reaming and 2) gender interventions. Gender mainstreaming entails that we apply a gender lens across all ou r activities with partner cooperatives, assessing the implications of our programmes and promotes gender equ ity in the cocoa sector sourcing principles for both women and men, and systematically ensuring women’s inclusion. Alongside this we carry out more targeted interventions aimed at addressing specific inequalities.
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