{"id":11920,"date":"2021-10-15T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/?post_type=project&#038;p=11920"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:47:23","slug":"womens-economic-empowerment-in-cocoa-activities-in-cote-divoire","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/projects\/womens-economic-empowerment-in-cocoa-activities-in-cote-divoire\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Economic Empowerment in Cocoa Activities in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section single-image\" data-dc-animate>\n    <div class=\"single-image__inner  fade-animate \" data-dc-animate-ref=\"fadeBlocks[]\">\n        <img class=\"extra lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Project-partners-explaining-We-Can-to-beneficiaries-in-a-community-copy-1920x1054.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Project-partners-explaining-We-Can-to-beneficiaries-in-a-community-copy-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Project-partners-explaining-We-Can-to-beneficiaries-in-a-community-copy-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Project-partners-explaining-We-Can-to-beneficiaries-in-a-community-copy-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Project-partners-explaining-We-Can-to-beneficiaries-in-a-community-copy-1536x843.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Project-partners-explaining-We-Can-to-beneficiaries-in-a-community-copy-2048x1124.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Project-partners-explaining-We-Can-to-beneficiaries-in-a-community-copy-1440x790.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Project-partners-explaining-We-Can-to-beneficiaries-in-a-community-copy-764x419.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Project-partners-explaining-We-Can-to-beneficiaries-in-a-community-copy-566x311.jpg 566w, https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Project-partners-explaining-We-Can-to-beneficiaries-in-a-community-copy-600x329.jpg 600w\" \/><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Project-partners-explaining-We-Can-to-beneficiaries-in-a-community-copy.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Project-partners-explaining-We-Can-to-beneficiaries-in-a-community-copy.jpg\",\"width\":2381,\"height\":1307}<\/script>\n                        <div class=\"single-image__caption\">Project partners explaining the project to community members.<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"rich-text section\" data-dc-animate>\n    <div class=\" fade-animate \"  data-dc-animate-ref=\"fadeBlocks[]\">\n        \n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">FLA\u2019s report on the WE-CAN project (Women\u2019s Economic Empowerment in Cocoa Activities IN C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire)&nbsp;highlights the journey of 800 women to raise their income and improve their well-being through FLA\u2019s interventions in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. During 2019 and 2020, FLA worked in cocoa communities on income-generating activities (IGA) and savings clubs in the cocoa supply chain of Nestle, and its tier one supplier Beyond Beans, and funding from the&nbsp;Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">FLA implemented a combination of two powerful and proven grassroots remedial interventions \u2013&nbsp;Gender Action Learning for Sustainability (GALS) and Village Savings Loans Association (VSLA). FLA is the first organization to apply GALS in the cocoa supply chains in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire since 2015.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">In this project, the interventions led to the following outcomes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-large-font-size wp-block-list\"><li>806 women were organized in 22 VSLA in 15 communities, and 98% of women started income generating activities (IGA).<\/li><li>During the project, the 21 VSLAs collectively saved FCFA 38,659,000 (about US$ 77,318\/Eur 59,021).<\/li><li>All women who participated in the project have a credit line available to them for the first time through their VSLAs. Women use their credit lines to develop or reinforce their IGA or to support schooling for their children.<\/li><li>93% of the women reported enhanced ability to make savings. The portion of women who know about their annual savings increased from 21% to 99% during the project.&nbsp;<\/li><li>61% of the women can better manage their income, have a better ability to cover their children\u2019s needs (32%), contribute more towards the household expenses (14%), and have an increased ability to take care of their personal needs (13%).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">It is time and again proven that when the earning and economic resilience of women is improved, it leads to an overall upliftment of the well-being of their families including access to school and meeting household needs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">FLA thanks the project partners and the numerous women dedicated to making this improvement in their lives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"section documents\" data-dc-animate>\n            <ul class=\"documents__list  fade-animate     documents__list--2 \"\n    data-dc-animate-ref=\"fadeBlocks[]\"\n     style=\"z-index: 39\" >\n            <li class=\"documents__item\" >\n                            <a download href=\"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WE-CAN-Full-Report.pdf\" download class=\"documents__link\">\n                    <svg class=\"icon documents__icon1\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" focusable=\"false\">\n                        <use xlink:href=\"#icon-page\"><\/use>\n                    <\/svg>\n                    <span class=\"documents__name\">WE-CAN full report<\/span>\n                                            <span class=\"documents__type\">PDF | 10 MB<\/span>\n                                        <span class=\"documents__icon2\">\n                    <svg class=\"icon\"  focusable=\"false\">\n                        <use xlink:href=\"#icon-download\"><\/use>\n                    <\/svg>\n                    <\/span>\n                <\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n            <li class=\"documents__item\" >\n                            <a download href=\"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WE-CAN-Report.pdf\" download class=\"documents__link\">\n                    <svg class=\"icon documents__icon1\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" focusable=\"false\">\n                        <use xlink:href=\"#icon-page\"><\/use>\n                    <\/svg>\n                    <span class=\"documents__name\">WE-CAN summary report<\/span>\n                                            <span class=\"documents__type\">PDF | 7 MB<\/span>\n                                        <span class=\"documents__icon2\">\n                    <svg class=\"icon\"  focusable=\"false\">\n                        <use xlink:href=\"#icon-download\"><\/use>\n                    <\/svg>\n                    <\/span>\n                <\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11932,"template":"","categories":[12],"location":[73],"members":[267],"partner":[809,802,742],"class_list":["post-11920","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-child-labor","location-ci","members-nestle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/11920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11920"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=11920"},{"taxonomy":"members","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/members?post=11920"},{"taxonomy":"partner","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner?post=11920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}