This is the working area for single women doing handicrafts as part of the training course under the Tutu Rural Training Institute, a member of PIFON, MTCP2 partner in the Pacific. With support from MTCP2, several women from Tutu went to SEWA India for a learning visit. When they came back, they were inspired to include handicrafts as part of the regular course offered by Tutu to their single women farmer students. The sales from their handicrafts are deposited to their bank account. Once they graduate, they are given their certificate and their bank account passbook with a sewing machine and other tools to do their handicrafts.
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About MTCP2
The Medium Term Cooperation Program Phase 2 (MTCP2), a five-year capacity building program supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and the European Union (EU), has been implemented in 19 countries across three sub-regions—Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific—engaging 1,544 sub-national farmers organizations (FOs) with a total membership of around 22 million farmers. The funding support (total budget of $ 5 million for the whole duration of the project across 19 countries) serves as a catalytic fund that will allow FOs to enhance their capacity to be effective channels of economic services to farmers. So far, the program has contributed to the formation of strong national platform of FOs with improved capacity to engage in policy processes and mobilize resources from mainstream agricultural development programs like extension services, credit, and pre and post harvest facilities. The program also helped in transforming farmers associations into commodity-based cooperatives to strengthen the role of small-scale farmers within an inclusive and sustainable value-chain. The program is being implemented by the consortium Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and La Via Campesina (LVC).
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