Her Market, Our Planet project

The 6-year Her Resilience, Our Planet (HROP) project will enhance the adoption of gender- responsive climate-smart agriculture systems and biodiversity protective food systems for nature-positive climate change adaptation by food-insecure communities, especially women and youth; increase the utilization of gender-responsive, climate-smart, and nature-positive agricultural business development resources and services by food-insecure communities, especially women and youth; and enhance leadership and participation of women and female youth in the processes leading to gender-responsive, climate and nature-informed policies, strategies, plans, and budgets in SAGCOT.

Project objectives

Increased socio-economic empowerment of women in gender responsive, resilient, and ecosystem-sensitive agricultural sectors in the SAGCOT region of Tanzania.

Beneficiaries

In total, the project will directly engage 224,286 household members, community, extension, and government intermediaries (51,603 girls, 52,264 boys, 37,671 female youth, 33,570 male youth, 25,589 women, 23,589 men) through capacity development, social norms change, and policy advocacy. This includes 77,877 small-scale farmers and agripreneurs (54,514 female, 23,363 male) in the project regions, through nutrition-sensitive and climate-smart economic empowerment, and value-chain development under a gender transformative market systems approach. Small-scale farmers in multiple value chains will benefit.

Agripreneurs include small-scale farmers and producers, and SME owners working in both on and off-farm stages of agricultural value chains, and will benefit primarily under 1200 and 1300. Agripreneurs will also benefit from improved access to finance through group saving models, enabling collective investment that improves bargaining power with private sector actors. The project indirectly reaches 1,022,405 people (235,234 girls, 238,245 boys, 171,721 female youth, 153,029 male youth, 116,647 women, and 107,529 men) through social norms transformation, market system functioning and ecosystem-sensitive agricultural policy.