Building Equitable Value Chains

View Session Details

How do gender-equitable value chains benefit businesses and small-scale producers?

Hosted with Hand in Hand International

Explore how gender-equitable value chains create mutual benefits for businesses and small-scale producers with Hand in Hand International. Learn from real-life examples and gain practical tools from businesses, NGOs, and producers who have successfully enhanced women’s lives and incomes through equitable practices. Hear the latest thinking on the business case for gender equity in supply chains and how to implement best practices for impactful change.

Opening Speakers:

Lucy Kerei, Programme Manager, Hand in Hand Eastern Africa

Amalia Johnsson, Deputy CEO, Hand in Hand International

Katharine Teague, Group ESG Director, ABF Sugar

Moderator:

Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership, Business Fights Poverty

Watch full video here

Download Summary

Watch the session highlights on socials

Live Illustration

View this illustration on socials

Live Tweets

Katharine Teague, ABF Sugar:

“Without the voice of women in the room, and without them being a key part of how we grow, we’re not going to be that business that’s going to be hugely successful”

Amalia Johnsson, Hand in Hand International:

“In agriculture, how do you bring a small-scale producer closer to the large-scale businesses that will essentially help them jump in terms of volume? A lot of it is about working with #women.”

Amalia Johnsson, Hand in Hand International:

“Women are the majority of the labour force in agriculture in some countries — as high as 80%. We’re missing something if we can’t bring women into the conversation about sustainable sourcing.”

Lucy Kerei, Hand in Hand Eastern Africa:

“We want to change the narrative on what women can do in value chains. We are promoting a conversation between men, women, and the communities in which these #women work to ensure that they’re part and parcel of that conversation”

Lucy Kerei, Hand in Hand Eastern Africa:

“If we are truly building an equitable supply chain — even as smaller businesses — then we need to design for our true end user, understand it’s a different group of people, listen to them, reach them where they are”

Katharine Teague, ABF Sugar:

“Sometimes we think that becoming a manager or a leader is something those women would want. It might not be. We need to make sure that we have aligned and listened bottom-up, as well as thinking top-down how we create the change we’re looking for”

Amalia Johnsson, Hand in Hand International:

“From applying the bottom-up approach, we very much see that social and gender norms are still a key factor stopping women from being able to scale up”