[{"bbox": [96, 152, 1135, 286], "category": "Text", "text": "linkages and partnerships due to logistics, quantity and quality issues, access to inputs, storage, and marketing. Despite the increasing role of women in the agriculture sector due to migration, women farmers' potential is hindered by limited resources, knowledge, and skills, but they can contribute to key value chains with traditional knowledge and organizational structures. Private sector-led agricultural development focusing on women's economic empowerment is essential for sustainable and equitable value chains and market connections."}, {"bbox": [96, 298, 1135, 431], "category": "Text", "text": "High-value niche products, such as ginger, cardamom, medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs), indigenous crops, and non-timber products, hold potential for women's economic empowerment and local biodiversity protection. However, market demands require partnerships between local producers, their organizations like cooperatives, and private sector enterprises, which are currently mostly underdeveloped and unequal. Developing these value chains and fostering a mindset change for gender-transformative practices necessitates collaboration at all levels."}, {"bbox": [96, 444, 1073, 499], "category": "Text", "text": "Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:"}, {"bbox": [96, 509, 1135, 670], "category": "Text", "text": "At local level: actors of the agricultural entrepreneurial ecosystem, i.e. women farmers and farmer groups, (women-led) cooperatives, (women) traders and retailers, local governments (municipalities, districts and provinces), business development service providers, banks and microfinance organizations, public and private advisory services, (women) entrepreneur associations and civil society organizations (NGOs), and other service providers for the agricultural ecosystem, as well as community centres on village and municipality level, organisations of persons with disabilities and youth organisations."}, {"bbox": [96, 680, 1135, 814], "category": "Text", "text": "Local Governments (municipalities, districts and provinces), and at national level, Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation (MoLCPA) as main political partner, and other relevant ministries like the Ministry of Forest and Environment (MoFE), the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration (MoFAGA), the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development Ministry of Women (MoALD), Children and Social Welfare (MoWCSW), and the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and Supplies (MoICS)."}, {"bbox": [96, 825, 1135, 1065], "category": "Text", "text": "Other national stakeholders: federal-level and provincial-level women entrepreneur associations, federal associations of the cooperative sector (e. g. NACCFL) and the business sector (e. g. FNCCI), stakeholders and service providers from the agricultural entrepreneurial ecosystem, civil society at local level such as the women associations and organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDS); the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) as the regional technical institution on technical solutions for climate-resilient agriculture, national- and local-level TV and radio programs, media organisations, advocacy NGOs related to gender equality and social inclusion. Gender/GESI/disability focal points in ministries: Agriculture, Forests and Soil Conservation, Health, Federal Affairs and General Administration, and NPC (National Planning Commission 2020)."}, {"bbox": [96, 1119, 660, 1147], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Short problem analysis: **Need for upscaling of best practice**"}, {"bbox": [96, 1157, 1135, 1424], "category": "Text", "text": "GRAPE 1 has tested a limited number of climate-resilient technologies and practices among farmers, with emerging results. However, these initiatives require further development with a gender-responsive lens and wider dissemination among farming communities, particularly women, including households with persons with disabilities to fully leverage their potential for sustainable production and local socio-economic development. Follow-up is necessary to increase the adoption of climate-resilient technologies and practices introduced by GRAPE 1, recognizing that adoption and the shifting to agro-ecology practices is a complex process that takes time. Collaboration with the private sector is crucial to strengthen the supply of these technologies at the local level. Additionally, upscaling formats like training schemes still have to be institutionalized, e.g., through integration of relevant curricula in local universities, provincial training centres and agricultural training centres as part of the local Agricultural Knowledge and Information System (AKIS)."}, {"bbox": [96, 1424, 1135, 1530], "category": "Text", "text": "Best practices still need to be integrated into training schemes of national associations relevant for the sector as well as in national policies, dialogue formats and in regional exchange mechanisms. All these upscaling activities have to integrate a gender, disability and youth responsive approach to ensure that the high potential of women and youth is strengthened, including in decision-making and planning."}, {"bbox": [96, 1542, 1073, 1598], "category": "Text", "text": "Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1655, 1145, 1682], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 23"}]