Our work

Our work: Women

Our purpose is to help African food processors grow. Here is a selection of our work: who supported it, what we did and what changed.

Workers sort freshly picked mangoes into crates under the orchard trees
Pictured: mangoes sorted into crates in the orchard
Type of work
Crop or value chain
Who it reached
Processors and small businesses9Women5Farmers4Young people2
Country
5projects matchWomenShow all
Workers in uniform sort fresh mangoes on a packing line, Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso

Dried mango export coaching in Burkina Faso

EUR 1.1min additional EU and EFTA export revenue in Burkina Faso, 2021 to 2025

For CBI we coached eleven dried mango processors in Burkina Faso to reach European buyers. 396 supported jobs created since 2023.

Two women in hairnets and white coats at work in a small food processing room, Malawi
Malawi

Safer food in Malawi (IMAGRI)

20companies on personalised food safety pathways since May 2026

Food safety training, audits and coaching for small processors in Malawi, and the design of a follow-on support programme.

Young people make compost with a wood chipper at a practical training
Burkina Faso, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique

Rural Youth Employment Accelerator

10+viable agri-business models for young people

Business models that young people can run in agri-food value chains, developed with GIZ in four countries.

Net cages in a farm fish pond, Malawi
Malawi

Women-led fish farming businesses

161stakeholders engaged across eight districts

A study of how women fish farmers in Malawi can move from subsistence ponds to profitable businesses.

Participants at long tables listen to a presentation in a workshop room, Burkina Faso
Burkina FasoLive

SPVO: better working conditions in Burkina Faso dried mango

A live project that improves working conditions in the Burkina Faso dried mango sector, 2025 to 2029, funded by RVO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.

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