Why start with women?
In argan, sesame and sunflower basins, women often anchor processing work and household income. Strengthening the cooperative stabilises the wider community.
Pillars
1/4Women & cooperatives
Fatima’s journey reminds us that economic dignity requires reading a contract and negotiating fairly. This pillar funds training, functional literacy and targeted credit where women carry the value chain.
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Cooperative governance and collective rights
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Adult functional literacy
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Microcredit for production equipment
Transparency commitment
The programme listings below state partnership intentions; concrete progress will be reported in the foundation’s annual publications.
Pillars
Programmes and target partners
Cooperative management training (accounting, rights, negotiation)
- Geographic area / Zone
- Morocco, Anti-Atlas · Souss
- Target beneficiaries / Beneficiaries
- Women from 7 partner argan cooperatives
- Target partners
- GIZ · INDH Morocco · UN Women
Adult functional literacy
- Geographic area / Zone
- Morocco · Burkina Faso · Tanzania
- Target beneficiaries / Beneficiaries
- Women sesame/sunflower producers
- Target partners
- UNESCO · Mohammed VI Foundation
Organic & fair trade certification training
- Geographic area / Zone
- West Africa
- Target beneficiaries / Beneficiaries
- Sesame/sunflower cooperatives
- Target partners
- Ecocert · FFL Ecocert
Microcredit for production equipment
- Geographic area / Zone
- Morocco · Kenya · Nigeria
- Target beneficiaries / Beneficiaries
- Small producers outside cooperatives
- Target partners
- IDB · BOAD · local institutions
Creation of new women's groups
- Geographic area / Zone
- Areas without cooperatives
- Target beneficiaries / Beneficiaries
- Isolated women off-network
- Target partners
- ANDZOA · Rural municipalities