Several positions for MAMORA Program

Program Summary 

Mercy Corps Indonesia will reach 3,500 direct participants (70% of them are female coffee farmers/farmers’ wives) and 200 young participants (70% of them are women) from coffee farming families in Tapanuli Utara and Humbang Hasundutan Districts in North Sumatra. Throughout the 2 years of implementation we will partner with women on both sides of the coffee farming equation – women currently earning a living by working on smallholder coffee plantations and young women who are part of coffee farming families and choosing their career direction. We will improve the health and economic resilience of women coffee farmers/farmers’ wives and their families through the bundling of health education, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), financial literacy, and business literacy activities. The program will include agripreneurship / entrepreneurship activities for young women from coffee farming families to boost interest and knowledge of their families’ businesses or creating their own. We will ensure male stakeholders are incorporated into activities where appropriate.

Objectives:

1. Improve the quality of health of coffee farming families through health education and WASH facilities,

2. Increase economic resilience of women coffee farmers and their families through financial and business literacy, and

3. Development of agripreneurship and entrepreneurship for young women (up to age 35) from coffee farming families.

The program will directly reach 3,500 participants who own or work on smallholder coffee plantations up to 2 hectares (70% of them are female coffee farmers/farmers’ wives) and 200 young women (70% of them are women). We estimate that 14,000 people (participants, family members and people from the broader coffee-producing community) in Tapanuli Utara and Humbang Hasundutan Districts will benefit directly and indirectly. Women are represented across all levels of production and perform all activities on these plantations, from the planting process, through crop maintenance and harvest, to postharvest when they sell the crops to markets or middlemen. Data indicates that most smallholder coffee plantations in Tapanuli Utara and Humbang Hasundutan Districts are generally managed by residents over age 45. Young people in coffee farming families have little interest in coffee plantations, especially young women who often seek opportunities outside of the region. But they are very comfortable using social media.

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