how to make sure that women adhering to better post harvest handling will get a better price and their products will be recognised by local, national or regional consumers?

How can the AfDB promote public-private partnerships that will mostly benefit women in agribusiness, agro-processing and agro-industries?

Assisting national agriculture investment plans to be gender sensitive and be subject to gender sensitive budgeting

This should include the provision of assistance (finance and technical) to the national women machinery to collect and create an evidence base and synthesis of lessons and experiences to date; fund activities of sharing lessons learned and data from monitoring and evaluation with the technical and financial partners and the finance institutions at both national and regional level (many of the value chains are regional). At national level we should be able to visualize the overall impact of inclusive business models that  have a sufficiently big impact on business profitability and branding and to include and fund these approaches in national extension’s core business operations and invest in the necessary partnerships but as well document the gaps between male and female participants, girls and boys and create visuals that are SMART

We should be able to institutionalise a gender analysis of all public private partnerships and sector innovations (including the value chain platforms management and activities) that are concluded and make sure that there are measures taken so the PPP’s contribute to reducing gender gaps and set up an effective learning process across value chains and public-private partnerships with the collaboration of research institutions (and statisticians) to produce reliable evidence based monitoring and lessons learning documents

Overall : set up a task force and develop a monitoring/evaluation and learning agenda for inclusive agribusiness and  youth employement and discuss institutional and funding modalities for implementation at the level of regional value chains and at the national level.

How could the ENABLE (Empowering Novel Agri-Business-Led Employment) Youth initiative, be used to empower young women in agribusiness?

Contribute to scale up the best practices that were documented from the collection, analysis and synthesis of best practices and fund as well work at the macro level in terms of actions to create employment and equitable remunerations, social actions where needed to protect the most vulnerable groups and girls and boys from poor households to have access to quality training and education opportunities to get out of poverty.

With the collaboration of value chain (national and regional) platforms assist in adjustment of policy settings in relation, for example, to taxation, tariffs and trade, public sector investment (NAIP) in agri- cultural research and extension, minimum salaries and social norms should create conditions for reduction of gender and poverty gaps.

Support national mechanisms for access to rural finance adapted to start ups and increasing capital of existing businesses with specific ratios for female and youth (girls) services