Gender Policy (2015)
By providing a clear and consistent message on our commitment to gender equality, TechnoServe’s gender policy aims to maximize project effectiveness, strengthen our organization and increase accountability.
Peruvian Women Produce Award-Winning Chocolate
A group of enterprising women from the Peruvian Amazon are turning the region's cocoa into high-quality products lauded by the global chocolate industry.
Growing Opportunity in India’s Desert
Creative solutions to agricultural water management in an arid region of India are boosting yields and incomes for smallholder farmers.
The Fruits of Women’s Empowerment
By Daniella De Franco and Isaac Gardner Like many women in Desvarieux, Haiti, Nadege Gabriel works hard to make ends meet. In a rural economy burdened by instability and poor market infrastructure, she struggles to maintain a steady income and worries about how to keep her young son…
Helping Nigeria’s Cashew Farmers Reach Their Potential
Through a $1 million grant from the Walmart Foundation, TechnoServe helped raise the incomes of 6,000 Nigerian cashew farmers through training on good agronomic practices, farming as a business, and improved methods for harvest and post-harvest handling.
Catalyzing Economic Growth in Mining Communities
TechnoServe is implementing two programs in Brazil with the global mining company Anglo American, taking a market systems approach to creating prosperity through enterprise development.
A Sewing Machine and a Dream
Rose Amachi, an alumna and mentor of TechnoServe's Young Women in Enterprise program, is working to empower girls and young women in Nairobi's Kawangware slum.
Girls’ Apprenticeship Program
Citi Foundation and TechnoServe are working together to reduce youth unemployment in Uganda by teaching young women the knowledge and skills needed to start their own businesses.
Accelerating Women and Youth Led Businesses
The Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs in South African Metros (AWESAM) program aims to increase the economic participation of urban women and youth in the South African economy by converting subsistence-based businesses into high-growth and competitive ventures.
