GRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA

Together we grow: holistic programming for smallholder farmers: in fy24, grameen foundation usa (grameen) continued its work to help smallholder farmers, especially women, reduce their vulnerability to shocks such as climate change, crop diseases, pests, and market vulnerability with 4 projects primarily focused on agriculture. Agripath is a 5-year action-research project spanning five countries, which aims to provide global, local implementing and research partners evidence as to what the most critical levers are for digital agricultural advisory services (das) to reach smallholders, especially women. Grameen is generating a toolkit for das partners to support them to build and enable agent networks to reach smallholders at scale.in the philippines, we have two agriculture-centric projects. One is called the sustainable coconut project and during fy24, we actively onboarded an additional 2 cooperatives; we are now engaging a total of 12 cooperatives. We are working with these cooperatives, and more than 10,000 of their members who grow copra, to increase the supply of and strengthen the quality of sustainable coconut oil. This generates impact for the producers and cooperatives who are involved and builds a business case for sustainable coconut oil for other industry buyers.in india, grameen is working with 47 farmer producer organizations (fpos) across two states, reaching over 40,000 smallholder farmers. The project aims to strengthen the fpos' inclusive business lines that strengthen women smallholder farmer members' incomes and resilience.

Regional programs: in total grameen engaged 58 local partners across all programs, and they have also been trained on gender-based violence mitigation resources, and together we're addressing harmful cultural practices that result in gender-based violence.grameen foundation usa (with freedom from hunger as a supporting organization) serves poor communities in asia, latin america, and sub-saharan africa. In india, we work through our wholly-owned subsidiary, grameen foundation india private limited. We are also partners in a joint venture, grameen capital india.in fy24, we had active projects in el salvador, eswatini, ghana, guatemala, honduras, india, philippines, senegal, sri lanka, timor leste, uganda, palau, nauru, tuvalu, burkina faso, tanzania, and nepal and the marshall islands.

Public education: in fy24, grameen foundation raised public awareness about successful poverty efforts through in person events, webinars, blogs, social media posts, and print and email publications, plus speaking engagements by our ceo.