Rural Women in India Show Peers What’s Possible November 2024 Summary Empowerment through SHGs: Self-Help Groups (SHGs) have significantly transformed the economic and social lives of rural women in India, providing them with financial independence and community support. Shubh Mint Program’s Impact: The Shubh Mint program, supporting over 26,000 farmers, has established numerous SHGs, enhancing [...]
Localization in Practice: Strengthening Locally Led Technical Assistance July 2024 Across the globe, localization is becoming the new standard in development, shifting the driver's seat to local actors by strengthening their systems to address socioeconomic challenges responsive to their community needs. This approach is the driving force behind Tanager’s IGNITE project—an investment mechanism designed to [...]
Lessons from Integrating Gender and Nutrition Perspectives in the Dairy Sector May 2024 Milk is a widely consumed beverage of high nutritional value. It can also be processed to create other value-added products, such as yogurt, ghee, condensed milk, dried milk, and much more. In 2023, global milk production reached 950 million tonnes, a 1.3% [...]
Women’s Day Event Showcases Lessons From Project Participants, For Project Participants April 2024 Tanager invests considerably in women’s economic and social empowerment to reduce gender-related inequalities and foster sustainable development. In Burkina Faso, for example, Tanager is implementing the Soutenir l’Exploitation Familiales pour Lancer l’Elevage des Volailles et Valoriser l’Economie Rurale (SELEVER 2) project, which [...]
Tanager Launches Signature Tool in India to Boost Shubh Mint Self-Help Groups March 2024 Women in rural communities play a significant role in their households’ farming endeavors. Despite their contributions, however, gender inequality typically prevents them from being able to make significant economic or social gains. Self-Help Groups (SHGs) have served as a useful vehicle [...]
Supporting Gains for Rural Women October 2023 Comprising nearly a quarter of the global population, rural women form the backbone of the global food system and agricultural labor force. Even as they shoulder much of the burden of household labor and childcare, rural women make significant contributions to household food and nutrition security, rural economic [...]
Tanager Calls for Greater Gender Integration in Agriculture to Boost Productivity October 2023 Consider the phrase, “Every Farmer, Every Tool,” and many will gravitate toward pondering the “every tool” part: How can we get the latest technologies into the hands of farmers around the globe? “In Tanager, [however,] we think about the ‘every farmer’ angle—especially [...]
The Pro-WEAI Tool: Measuring Women's Empowerment: From Theory to Practice September 2023 Women’s empowerment is recognized as crucial to agricultural transformation in developing countries. However, it can be complex to accurately assess the level of their empowerment in research. For example, some researchers target the head of households when seeking agricultural statistics using surveys—which tend [...]
Helping Microfinance Institutions Advance Financial Inclusion and Women's Empowerment August 2023 People with low incomes, especially women and other structurally excluded groups, have long been underserved by financial institutions. This limits their potential to capitalize on economic opportunities and forces a majority of them to rely on informal and unregulated financial products. Financial inclusion refers [...]
In the Araku Valley, India, meet the hardworking coffee farmers Tanager supports through the Andhra Pradesh Farmer Market Readiness Project
