ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The ICO Coffee Public-Private Task Force has established an ambitious Roadmap vision to build a sustainable and prosperous future for coffee producers and the sector as a whole by 2030. As part of its efforts to achieve the Roadmap vision, the Task Force has committed to embed gender transformative approaches throughout its processes, plans and activities. In April 2021, the Oxfam Business Advisory Service (OBAS) were appointed as the Gender Advisory Lead to the ICO to support its work to embed gender transformative strategies across the coffee value chain. The Proposal to embed Gender Transformative Strategies to the ICO Task Force has been developed to provide guidance and advice to the ICO and public and private sector actors from across the coffee sector on approaches and activities to improve livelihoods, build resilient landscapes, increase market transparency and transform policy with gender as a central, crosscutting theme. The Proposal to embed Gender Transformative Strategies to the ICO Task Force was created by the Oxfam Business Advisory Service (OBAS) based on research and building on the important work of organisations in the field including CARE International, IDH, Integrity Action, International Food Policy Research Institute, ISEAL Alliance, KIT Tropical Institute, and Partnership for Gender Equity. OBAS acknowledges the assistance of the following individuals in the development of the tool: Aimee Rusillo, Melanie Landthaler, Ana Laven, Michael Wheeler, and Ambassador Marco Farani. OBAS also acknowledges the valuable contributions of the Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA), Conservation International, Global Coffee Platform, International Coffee Organisation (ICO), International Women’s Coffee Alliance (IWCA), Partnership for Gender Equity, Rainforest Alliance, Specialty Coffee Association, Sustainable Food Lab, Sustainable Harvest, Tchibo and UNDP. The ICO expresses sincere thanks and appreciation to the Gender Advisory team formed by Jiselle Steele, Le Thi Sam, Amita Pitre, Leena Camadoo, and Sandra Patricia Mojica Enciso for this work. The study has been facilitated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). All views expressed in the study are the sole responsibility of the authors and should not be attributed to any other person or institution .
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