Gender documentation for FP293 Annex 8: Gender Assessment and Gender Action Plan Food Securities Fund Accountable Cocoa & Coffee Tranche

The FSF ACCT, managed by Clarmondial, integrates gender considerations into its lending and Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) to address structural barriers faced by women in cocoa and coffee sectors. The fund utilizes a 'Reach – Benefit – Empower' (RBE) framework and requires borrowers to provide sex-disaggregated KPIs. A dedicated TAF provides grants for capacity building, leadership training, and climate-smart agriculture, specifically targeting women and youth to enhance their economic independence and adaptive capacity to climate change.

• Women in cocoa and coffee supply chains face systemic structural barriers, including limited land ownership, unequal intra-household decision-making, and restricted access to credit and technical training.
• The Food Securities Fund (FSF) tracks gender-disaggregated KPIs; as of 2024, women represented 16% of transacted farmers, 29% of trained farmers, and 49% of borrowers' employees.
• The ACCT utilizes the 'Reach – Benefit – Empower' (RBE) framework to assess a potential borrower's contribution to gender equality during the loan proposal process.
• Climate change disproportionately affects women in these sectors due to their lower adaptive capacity, which is linked to reduced access to productive resources and climate finance.
• The Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) provides grants (up to USD 200,000) to support women's leadership, inclusive governance, and gender-sensitive training in climate-smart agriculture.
• Gender-based violence (GBV) is managed by integrating risk screening into environmental and social due diligence, including the assessment of workplace safety and grievance mechanisms.
• In Costa Rica, women in coffee production earn approximately 39.2% less than men, representing one of the highest gender wage gaps globally in the sector.
• In Ghana, women account for roughly 25% of cocoa farmers but own less than 10% of the cocoa land.
• In Peru, men own nearly 70% of the land, while women own only 30%, which limits women's access to credit and training.
• In Rwanda, women make up over 60% of the agricultural workforce but own only 26% of agricultural land.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2025). Gender documentation for FP293 Annex 8: Gender Assessment and Gender Action Plan Food Securities Fund Accountable Cocoa & Coffee Tranche. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp293-gender-assessment.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Gender documentation for FP293 Annex 8: Gender Assessment and Gender Action Plan Food Securities Fund Accountable Cocoa & Coffee Tranche. 2025. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp293-gender-assessment.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2025gender, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Gender documentation for FP293 Annex 8: Gender Assessment and Gender Action Plan Food Securities Fund Accountable Cocoa \& Coffee Tranche}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2025}, month = dec, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp293-gender-assessment.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }