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GEDSI Objectives
GREAT investments are guided by a set of inclusion objectives that aim for gender equality, disability equity and social inclusion (GEDSI) outcomes.
Improving women’s agency and capacity
Through:
Improving ethnic minority women’s financial knowledge and skills
Improving ethnic minority women’s digital knowledge and skills
Improving knowledge and skills in production and processing
Improving leadership and entrepreneurship knowledge and skills
Improving ethnic minority women’s relationships and bargaining power with households, communities and private sector, including language
Vocational skills training
Improving the capacity of markets to accommodate to ethnic minority women’s needs and priorities
Through:
Increasing economic opportunities for sector investments and employments for ethnic minority women
Establishing and strengthening cooperatives and business networks to increase collective ethnic minority women’s market power
Developing and making accessible financial products and services for ethnic minority women
Developing and making accessible digital business platforms and tools for ethnic minority women
Improving ethnic minority women access to (production) inputs and new agricultural and tourism technology, and health and safety
Households, communities, authorities, mass organizations and/or private sectors promoting balanced workloads for ethnic minority women
Improving the national and provincial policy enabling environment to be more GEDSI responsive
Future National Target Programs (NTP) with
Gender targeting with more evidence-based monitoring of NTP SEDEMA 2021-2025 to feed into the design of Project 8 of NTP SEDEMA 2026 – 30 targeting ethnic minority women
Gender mainstreaming regarding production support policies / projects and other relevant policies / projects under NTP SEDEMA 2026-3
Current NTPs with:
Technical assistance for design and implementing pilot of business-led value chain production support based on innovation and gender sensitive market analysis to reduce workload for ethnic minority women
GEDSI sensitisation for relevant provincial and national bodies in their respective management and supervision of NTP implementation
Working with Provincial Governments with
GEDSI integration in selected provincial government agriculture, tourism and cross-cutting policies and practices