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21 December 2021 | dataset

Gender Inclusive Value Chains: Improving Women’s Participation in Solomon Islands

A multidonor initiative, the Second Rural Development Program (RDP II) was designed to improve basic infrastructure and services in rural areas and to strengthen the linkages between smallholder farming households and markets. Amongst other objectives, the program supports farming households to engage in productive partnerships with commercial enterprises.

A household questionnaire was used to collect data, supplemented by informal discussions with farmers and community members. Cocoa and coconut value chains were ideal focus areas. Women here are typically involved in the more time-consuming and labour-intensive activities of planting, production and harvesting, while men dominate post-harvest processing, sales, and resulting income. To facilitate an accurate comparison between agribusiness partnerships and a sufficiently comparable control group, however, the assessment focused on cocoa partnerships only. Data collection occurred in July 2017-March 2018.

Data and Resource

Gender Inclusive Value Chains World Bank SI Report 2018

This assessment aimed to identify the…

Field Value
Publisher Pacific Data Hub
Modified 10 May 2022
Release Date 21 December 2021
Source URL https://pacificdata.org/data/dataset/068b65dc-c4c0-416c-a285-20d71c438967
Identifier 068b65dc-c4c0-416c-a285-20d71c438967
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Location Array
Relevant Countries Solomon Islands
License Public
[Open Data]
Author Array