2. Gender -balanced teams for child labour monitoring.
We aim to have age and
gender -balanced teams of CLMRS staff, with a target of
40% of our
Community Facilitators 20 being women by 2030, as part of our living income vision 21 . ICI research found that increasing the number of women in CLMRS can drive better outcomes, as children tend to feel more at ease with women interviewers, and partners are more comfortable trusting women to interview their child . 22 Between 2021/22 and 2024/25, the number of women working as community facilitators in partner cooperatives increased from 22% to 28%. 3. Gender -sensitive training . We also train community facilitators to address the specific circumstances faced by boys and girls in child labour during the annual trainings for CLMRS agents.
Productivity programming
• Pilot on financial compensation for cocoa farm renovation focused on women. As part of the evolved Tony’s Open Chain productivity programme launched in 2025, we are rolling out a pilot which provides annual compensation to 250 women beneficiaries (60% women lead farmers, 40% spouses of men lead farmers) at ECOJAD for three consecutive years to support the planting of new cocoa trees. The compensation amount reflects the estimated income farmers would have earned had the trees not been replanted, based on farm yield and the living income reference price. This pilot tests the 100 Weeks Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) approach, which combines financial literacy training, VSLAs and weekly cash payments to offset income losses during replanting. The intervention also aims to reduce gender - based inequalities by working directly with women, who often have a higher overall workload than men due to household and childcare responsibilities, livestock care, food cropping and cocoa production. • Support for vulnerable farmers. Whilst working with highly motivated farmers as part of the Farm Transformation programme , we also want to make sure that the most vulnerable farmers are not left behind. This is why we will also support the renovation of 20% of farmland for a subset of vulnerable farmers , across all partner cooperatives. The selection of vulnerable farmers will be determined together with partner cooperatives, with gender considered one of the vulnerability factors.
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