A joint effort from
We have initiated the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund to enable safe and empowering workplaces for women workers.
The Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund is a bold new program contributing to safe and empowering workplaces
Through WSAF, funding partners address gender-based violence in agricultural value chains.
With a combined investment till date of €2 million, the goal is to accelerate the scale of the UN Women ‘Global Women’s Safety Framework in Rural Spaces’ and ensure that ‘all women and girls are socially, economically, and politically empowered in rural spaces that are free from sexual harassment and other forms of violence’.
Initially, WSAF will start implementation in the tea sector in India (Assam, West Bengal).
Our Ambitions
To start, WSAF aims to reach 200,000 women tea workers in India by 2023.
In due course, WSAF will be scaled and replicated beyond the tea sector, to other regions and agricultural sectors.
How does the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund work?
Through resources and collaboration with a range of stakeholders, the Fund will take a holistic approach to addressing the challenge of gender-based violence.
The Fund will work to build awareness and understanding of gender-based violence and supports the tea industry to put measures in place to prevent and respond to it, while strengthening the capacity of local NGOs.
The Fund will accelerate the scale of the UN Women ‘Global Women’s Safety Framework in Rural Spaces’, created with the support of Unilever, by leveraging the efforts and capacity of local NGOs and producers to drive more sustainable, long-term shifts in safety within the tea supply chain.
The focus is on promoting tangible and continuous improvements for women workers in the Indian tea industry by:
- Enabling tea producers to implement the UN Women ‘Global Women’s Safety Framework in Rural Spaces’ which aims to ensure that ‘all women and girls are socially, economically, and politically empowered in rural spaces that are free from sexual harassment and other forms of violence’.
- Empowering local implementers, service providers, and eco-system partners to support producers as technical, training or mobilization partners, to build capacity and move from actions to outcomes.
- Establishing a common platform to support and sustain change, embedding continuous improvement facilitated through the Fund’s engagement.
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Get Involved
If you share our goals, you can strengthen our initiative. To enable the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund address violence against women and girls, we issue an open invitation to public and private stakeholders to support the Fund.
Contributing to the Fund will give you an active voice in driving the success of your investment and in contributing to a safe and empowering workplace for women.
To learn more about how your organization can get involved, contact:
