POLICY DIALOGUE ON WOMEN IN HORTICULTURE VALUE CHAINS IN RWANDA

For instance, fruits and vegetables covered an estimated 1.18% and 0.47% of the aggregate land occupied by all crops in Season A 2020 compared to 1.14% and 0.63% and 6.0% of the previous Season A 2019 (NISR, 2018). [...] However, the recent agricultural household survey 2017 revealed that the horticulture production at household levels was still critical as the proportion of vegetables and fruits producing households were down compared to other crops (3.1%) and 0.5% in season A and (3.7%) and (0.6%) in season B of households respectively) (NISR, 2018). [...] The event will bring together key policy makers, CSOs and development partners, private sector and farmer’s representatives, academicians and media to chat pathways to unlock women participation in horticulture value chains in Rwanda. [...] Prior to policy dialogue, Oxfam in Rwanda intend to conduct a desk review to assess the level of participation of women in horticulture value chains in Rwanda, challenges and opportunities. [...] To this regard, the project intends to hire independent Consultant to review existing literature on women in horticulture value chains reports, published reports studies and other reports on subject matter and to come up with 5- pages report and prepare power point presentation which will be presented in policy dialogue.