Case Studies

The path to living wages for low-paid workers worldwide

Sector-wide action across supply chains is key to making living wages a reality for workers in low-income countries, says the Fairtrade Foundation’s Naomi Somerville-Large.
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Inclusive business models can help close the gender gap

Four lessons from GROW on how to sustain and scale inclusive business models to address the economic and the non-economic constraints women face.
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Race to the top: How we pushed supermarkets to take human rights seriously

From new gender policies to commitments on living wages, Oxfam have come a long way since they published its first supermarkets scorecard in 2018. Radhika Sarin explains what does the 2022 scorecard reveals and what more must be done.
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Tackling global warming through the promotion of clean cooking energy in Ghana

The world’s poor are continuously affected by the low availability of sustainable and reliable energy, with increasing difficulty in remote areas. Modern energy services are crucial to human well-being as well as to countries’ economic development. Mark Kojo Medegli, Sustainability Leader of United People Global, explains what the way forward looks like.
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It’s time to collect more and better gender-disaggregated supply chain data

Data is essential in today’s world. In the context of global supply chains, data is the cornerstone of effective human rights due diligence and risk assessment. Without the necessary data, businesses will fall short in addressing and preventing risks to workers and mitigating harm that may be caused as a result of their business operations.
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Comic Relief and Jersey Overseas Aid are making a difference

For Red Nose Day 2022, Comic Relief celebrate some of the incredible work their partners are doing to help change lives in communities around the world.
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Using gender data to translate inclusion strategies into programming reality

The face of farming is female in much of the world. At the same time, little is known about rural women’s access to resources, the diversity of their income and how they use their time. Closing the gender data gap makes women in agriculture visible and allows programmes and their partners to realise inclusive impact.
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How the business community is stepping up in support of Ukrainian children and their families

UNICEF is appealing for $349 million to provide life-saving support for children and their families. This funding will help to support over 3.5 million people, including 2.2 million children, and the business community has responded at an unprecedented speed and volume.
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Switching to digital delivery during COVID-19: Key lessons

The Cherie Blair Foundation WEAVE project ran in Indonesia and Vietnam in 2020 and 2021. It successfully supported over 12,000 women entrepreneurs through our three online programmes – in the midst of the global pandemic. Alice Allan, Challenge Director at Business Fights Poverty, explores some of the key lessons learned from switching to digital delivery in order to continue working through the crisis.
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Empowering women and inspiring youth: Reflections from Stephanie Lamma Ewi

Ewi Stephanie Lamma works directly with women who rely on forests, and speaks movingly of their breakthroughs as women. She stresses the benefits of women’s environmental leadership to the wider community, quoting the Cameroonian proverb: “If you train a man, you have just trained one person. If you train a woman, you have trained a nation.”
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A Fairer Future for All Means Gender Equality Now

Fairtrade is a critical tool for achieving gender equality and fairness. And it is why Fairtrade certified cooperatives do better than non-certified ones in women’s representation in leadership positions. But we cannot do it alone. Businesses everywhere must enact policies that support gender equality on the ground, in their supply chains, and in their boardrooms.
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Turning an Onboarding Exercise into a Knowledge Hub for Gender Mainstreaming

iDE’s innovation lab specializes in human-centered design. They have identified three user journeys to guide users to those resources that can help address gender in the workplace according to where you are currently in your level of mainstreaming as well as your size and the type of their organization.
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Living income and gender: adopting gender transformative approaches to improve livelihoods

Lily Petkova from ISEAL discusses the gender barriers that affect the income of female smallholder farmers and how we can apply a gender lens to transformative approaches when considering a living income.
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Spotlighting Fairtrade and Aldi UK’s ‘Dignity for All’ – a programme for female flower workers

This International Women’s Day, Fairtrade Foundation spotlight how their relationship with Aldi UK went from sourcing to becoming longstanding programme partners, and how it has supported women, including Meseret Teshome who didn’t have the opportunity to progress with her education when she was young.
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Women as drivers of climate resilience

Mars has long-standing commitments to act on climate change and empower women. Now, the company is connecting these two areas of focus. In this article, Lisa Manley explains why women are at the core of climate resilience and how companies can support them.
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Scaling Up Impact With Carbon Finance

Gyapa is one of the largest and longest running cookstove projects in the world. Ann Koontz, CEO at Relief International, shares her reflections and advice on how this carbon reduction project has progressed over 10+ years and how her partnership with ClimateCare has given vital access to carbon finance enabling her to scale the project’s impact.
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Engaging community voices: Reflections from Archana Soreng

Climate and gender activist Archana Soreng reflects on the contrast between the indigenous world view she grew up with, which sees people as part of nature, dependent on it and with an obligation to protect it, and a developed world view of nature as a commodity, to be harvested at a profit.
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Why working with men is key to fighting inequality

Jane Sabuni, Country Director at Hand in Hand Eastern Africa Tanzania, explains how working with men helps to challenge gender bias in rural Tanzania – with support from Cartier Philanthropy
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The chocolate entrepreneurs of Peru

Sustainability is justifiably the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day and the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on 28/2/22, confirms what Fairtrade farmers have long been aware of: the climate crisis is here, it is real, and it is threatening. But by developing ‘value-add’ products, rather than solely raw commodities could offer a solution to people’s livelihoods.
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Inclusive future of work for women with disabilities

The inequalities experienced in the world of work for women with disabilities (WWDs) are significant and need to be addressed. Employability data for WWDs are hard to obtain locally, and where data is available the labour market participation rate of WWDs is lower than that of the general population.
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