IFCCA - Initiative des Femmes (Congolaises) dans le Café-Cacao

Saveur du Kivu 2018   Les rôles et opportunités de la femme en vue de promouvoir les chaînes de valeurs inclusives dans secteur café et cacao.

  Congolese Women in Coffee-Cocoa Initiative: The launch of a national platform to foster an inclusive coffee value chain and women economic empowerment (published in the African Fine Coffee Review Magazine, Jan.-Mar.2018, Issue) by Julie K. Kamungele and Amani Lwanzo Last year will be remembered as a watershed moment for women in the Congolese coffee sector.   In 2017, women working in the coffee and cocoa value-chain in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) formed the DRC Women in Coffee-Cocoa Initiative, more commonly known by its French acronym, IFCCA ( Initiative des femmes dans le Café-Cacao ). It is a platform that empowers Congolese women involved in the coffee-cocoa value chain through entrepreneurship and female leadership that helps them build their skills and strengthen their position in these growing markets, in general, and strengthens their household income, in particular. Although still young, this women’s platform has already been warmly welcomed as