Gender in Trade for Development Centre projects
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Projects in Peru, Congo and Morocco highlight the fact that to turn fair and sustainable trade into a means of leverage in the fight against poverty and inequality reduction – which is the Trade for Development Centre's view – two questions must be kept in mind when approving projects: who does the work when producing goods and who manages the profits once the project boosts revenue?
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Great case studies showing how Fair Trade projects can help decrease domestic violence, make women take matters into their own hands (with the help and support of their respective communities) and, more generally, contribute to their emancipation, in a world context in which "women [still] deliver two-thirds of all productive and reproductive working hours whereas they receive less than half of the revenue".