SABORES de Honduras: Empowering Women and Youth in Coffee and Honey Value Chains

The project contributes to sustainably increase the economic empowerment of 15 000 women men and youth in the coffee and honey value chains in Honduras. It seeks to support the economic recovery in the context of pandemic socio-economic shocks and climate change. The project’s activities include: 1) implementing an equitable access to land program for women and young women; 2) training in education financial management and leadership focused on women's rights and positive masculinities; and 3) establishing productive agroforestry systems; 4) creating a social enterprise from responsible private investments; 5) training associations and social enterprises on good governance and inclusive management practices through the PerformCoop program as well as on improving the quality of sales products; 5) implementing an innovative marketing and commercialization strategy; 6) establishing a microcredit and climate finance program; 7) establishing a coordination mechanism to create an inclusive gender-sensitive business environment that is also sensitive to environmental challenges; 8) establishing communication and advocacy mechanisms for the economic empowerment of women and young people with local and national stakeholders.

The expected intermediate results include: (1) strengthened resilience to socio-economic shocks and climate change of women and youth in inclusive and equitable family-run agroforestry businesses in targeted regions; (2) improved performance of associative enterprises and the social enterprise to support the resilience to climate change and economic prosperity of women and youth. The emphasis is specifically on young women in diversified climate-smart agroforestry systems; and (3) improved efficiency of the business environment to sustainably support the economic empowerment of women and youth especially young women in diversified agroforestry systems in the context of socio-economic shocks and climate change.