Empowering Tea Communities in Kenya
Report Action AidKenya
Progress report on ActionAid and partners’ pilot programme for Kenyan smallholder farmers and informal workers who are largely ‘invisible’ and whose rights are overlooked.
Knowledge hub
In the first initiative of its kind, our Knowledge Hub collates and regularly updates the most valuable resources regarding human rights and environmental issues in the tea sector.
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Report Action AidKenya
(in)action is a choice: guidance towards living income for smallholder farmers
Report IDH Wageningen University & ResearchWorldwide
The document provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors affecting income disparities…offering practical recommendations for bridging these gaps, supported by case studies that illustrate successful interventions in diverse contexts.
Child labour and the impact of financial services on smallholder tea households in Malawi
Report ILOMalawi
The report highlights poverty and socio-economic insecurity as the major causes of child labour in farming households, particularly in tea-growing households in Malawi. It analyses the current financial landscape of Malawi, identifying financial providers offering services to farming households, and determines the opportunities and challenges of financial inclusion for farming households and their usage of different financial products.
An Analysis of Women Workers’ Experiences of Rights Violations in Kenya’s Tea Sector
Report Coalition Against Sexual ViolenceKenya
This study aims to document human and labor rights violations – especially sexual exploitation- understand the dynamics that perpetuate them, and assess the capacity of stakeholders to address them. It aims to provide actionable recommendations based on the firsthand accounts of affected women.
Beyond Pledges on Child Labour
Report The Centre for Child Rights and BusinessWorldwide
This publication examines progress on eradicating child labour and the persistent barriers that prevent businesses from addressing the issue more effectively. The publication serves both as a practical guide and a clear reminder: more action is urgently needed…every business can evaluate its supply chain practices to help prevent child labour.
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Brew it Fair Tea Report
Report Fairtrade FoundationWorldwide
We need transformational change in the tea sector, with tea workers, industry, governments and NGOs working together so that the people behind the tea we drink can live decent lives. At Fairtrade, we will also be evolving our work on tea, so we can take our own impact to scale. Read the Brew it Fair report to dive deeper into…
How Gender is Embedded in the Anker Methodology and an Exploration of Care Work and Living Wage
Report Anker Research InstituteWorldwide
This paper explains how a gender perspective is embedded into the Anker Methodology for estimating a living wage. This is important for transparency and for ensuring that users of Anker Methodology living wage and living income estimates and other interested parties understand the approach.
Building a safe and healthy working environment in South Asian plantations
The International Labour Organization thus implemented the Safety + Health for All Plantation Workers in South Asia project. This compendium highlights good practices that emerged from the project, providing practical guidance to project implementers, governments, employers and workers to improve workplace conditions in plantations. Moreover, it serves as a blueprint for other sectors and regions to replicate these achievements, helping…
Training module on sexual harassment of women at workplace
In 2013 the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 was brought into force by the Ministry of Women and Child. Despite these efforts, the benefits of these laws do not, often, percolate down to the beneficiaries. The main cause of this deficiency is the lack of awareness of the main stakeholders, like the women…