Les Femmes Congolaises dans le Café (Saveur du Kivu 2017)











Pays/territoire : Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Congolese Women in Coffee-Cocoa Initiative: The launch of a national platform to foster an inclusive coffee value chain and women economic empowerment

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  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 we...
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IFCCA : The launch of a national platform to foster an inclusive coffee value chain and women economic empowerment

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  CONGOLESE WOMEN IN COFFEE-COCOA INITIATIVE : THE LAUNCH OF A NATIONAL PLATFORM TO FOSTER AN INCLUSIVE COFFEE VALUE CHAIN AND WOMEN ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Julie Kavira Kamungele  Associate Export Director of  Ets. TSONGO KASEREKA National Representative of the DRC Women in Coffee and Cocoa Platform ( IFCCA ) Mrs. Julie Kavira Kamungele    has over 5 years experience in local procurement and   trading of coffee. She is currently the Assistant Export Director of    Ets. TSONGO KASEREKA, a green coffee buying, processing and exporting company based in the town of Butembo, North Kivu Province, in eastern DR Congo.   Julie is involved in various programs focused on the empowerment the    women working along the coffee value chain.  She has represented    the Congolese women in coffee through the International Women in Coffee Alliance (DRC Chapter) and she has just been elected as the National Repres...
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