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Project details

Help women build livelihoods in Vietnam Viet Nam , RUN BY: CARE Australia | STATUS: COMPLETED

This project is 100% Funded

 

 

AUD 20,002

Raised from 6,008 people



Project background

Dien Bien and Son La provinces are located in the far north-west corner of Vietnam. With the majority of the population made up of ethnic groups who are often isolated, marginalised and unable to speak Vietnamese, they are the poorest provinces in Vietnam.

Women from remote ethnic groups are often disadvantaged because of unequal rights, few opportunities and little access to education. On top of burdensome household workloads, many women support their families with basic farming of coffee. They generally farm alone and as a result have little bargaining power, cannot easily access or afford farming tools, and have limited knowledge about selling their produce.

CARE is helping women in Dien Bien and Son La provinces build sustainable, resilient and profitable livelihoods that benefit the whole community by providing new skills and techniques to improve farming practices.

Project aims

Ethnic minority women farmers tend to have low bargaining power, difficulty in accessing fertiliser, seeds and pesticides, and do not have opportunities to learn about how to improve production, processing and profits from other farmers.

Engrained cultural norms and burdensome household responsibilities mean that women tend to farm individually and lack vital links to markets and service providers where they need a collective voice for negotiation.

The TEAL Coffee Project aims to help women in Dien Bien and Son La provinces in Vietnam to build sustainable, resilient and profitable livelihoods that benefit the whole community by providing new skills and techniques to improve farming practices.

Project objectives

The project’s objectives are to:

  • Introduce new technologies and farming techniques to farmers, to improve production, market access and income.
  • Establish women-led producer groups to increase collective action and bargaining power.
  • Help link coffee producers with input providers, extension services, buyers, processors, and other value chain actors.

Project outcomes

By improving farming practices, building confidence and giving women the ability to act collectively when selling their produce to market, the project will help break the cycle of poverty facing ethnic minority families.

With your support, at the end of the project CARE aims to see ethnic minority women farmers:

  • Being recognised as valuable contributors to the farming sector and the community.
  • Benefiting from increased income.
  • Taking loans to support their businesses while being supported by the implementation of policy.

Project costs

Funding towards the TEAL Coffee Project project will support:

  • Ethnic minority women farmers to escape poverty by introducing new agricultural techniques and technologies to improve production, market access and income.
  • Position ethnic minority women as valuable coffee farmers, by establishing women-led producer groups.

Partners and community involvement

CARE ensures the project is sustainable by implementing the project with a wide range of local partners. For example, CARE will work in partnership with the Dien Bien Centre of Community Development (CCD), Son La Women’s Union (SLWU) and the Son La Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD).

CARE and implementing partners will link coffee producers with input providers, extension services, buyers, processors, and other value chain actors.

The TEAL Coffee Project will also work with the private sector, working with companies on product promotion to increase market demand for Arabica coffee sourced from Son La and Dien Bien.

 
How was this funded?

Thanks to hundreds of tiny donations from these online businesses and their customers.

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CARE Australia


CARE is an international humanitarian aid organisation fighting global poverty, with a special focus on working with women and girls to bring lasting change to their communities. As a non-religious and non-political organisation, CARE works with communities to help overcome poverty by supporting development and providing emergency relief where it is needed most.

Last year, CARE assisted 122 million people across 84 countries through 1,015 poverty-fighting projects.