IGNITE+: Women, Nutrition, and the Future of Ethiopian Agriculture

On February 18, 2025, Fair and Sustainable (F&S) in partnership with Tanager convened key stakeholders from Ethiopia’s agriculture sector at the Haile Grand Hotel in Addis Ababa to celebrate a pivotal moment—the official launch of the Impacting Gender and Nutrition through Innovative Technical Exchange in Agriculture Plus (IGNITE+) program.
This five-year initiative aims to transform African agricultural institutions by strengthening their capacity to integrate gender and nutrition-sensitive approaches into their operations and agricultural interventions—promising a lasting change for small scale producers and food system actors.

The gender-responsive Business Model Canvas

A framework and tool for development practitioners and agri-service providers, to analyse the delivery of agri-support services from a gender perspective has been developed.

Gender sensitive framework for sustainable management of TVET Colleges in Ethiopia

Fair & Sustainable Ethiopia – in partnership with Niras – IP Consult and MDF – has been contributing to the Ethio-German Financial Cooperation: Vocational Education and Agricultural Training Programme through activities including gender-sensitive strategy, and provision of capacity building workshops for TVET colleges and institutions in Ethiopia.

Paying attention to Gender pays off.

IDH published a new Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) tool which helps track and evaluate gender-equality interventions. The tool is the result of a Gender Business Case Evaluation study conducted by Fair & Sustainable (F&S) Ethiopia in collaboration with F&S Netherlands, in 2018. 

Women as business partners

ICCO Cooperation and Fair & Sustainable have developed a tool for gender inclusive development and assessment of project proposals.