Issue
Fair trade is recognised as an important avenue to drive business.
How we are helping
Supporting Shared Interest's project to collaborate on joint activities for greater networking and sharing of benefits, as well as learning from the success and failure of other fair trade programmes.
About the project
Shared Interest Foundation is promoting fair trade in Africa by giving three networks a chance to share experiences and learn from each other.
It will allow time and space for critical reflection involving those working in a similar context as well as those without any prior knowledge, helping to create a more objective analysis of progress, challenges, barriers, hopes and opportunities.
Focusing on learning by seeing and doing, project partners will visit each other’s operations and meet members, producers and board members to hear a wide range of experiences about how projects and schemes, such as income generation activities, have worked in reality.
The project has a strong emphasis on peer-to-peer learning and staff exchanges working in different country contexts. This project also responds to the 2013 Commonwealth Theme ‘Opportunity through Enterprise’.
Project Partners
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