Ethiopia: SNV

‘Gender and Youth Empowerment in Horticulture Markets’ (GYEM) is  a three-year project (2016-2019) implemented by SNV Ethiopia and funded by Comic Relief. The project is undertaken from a value chain development approach, with special focus on the synergy between all the stakeholders in the chain and improving access to sustainable markets for smallholder farmers.

The overall goal of the project is to enhance social and economic empowerment of women and youth through improved control over assets and benefits from horticulture activities on household level in order that:

• women attain higher income from their horticultural activities
• women attain higher production through increased and improved access to assets, inputs, business development services, credits and markets
• youth enhance their participation and income in horticulture value chains through improved services for cooperative’s members
• the unions and cooperatives are more gender balanced in their policies, organisation and capacity building services for their members
• the enabling environment is strengthened to promote women and youth participation in horticulture value chains.

Further photographs from the Ethiopia process can be found on:

http://www.zemniimages.com/GameChangeNetwork/Ethiopia