Oxfam is a nonprofit organization that is fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. They brought Instellar on board to implement the Gender Transformative and Responsible Agribusiness Investments in South East Asia (GRAISEA) project in Indonesia. The project aims to improve the livelihoods of small-scale producers in the agriculture sector through inclusive value chains and responsible business practices by implementing Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE). Run in five countries with different focuses, the Indonesian project centers on the shrimp supply chain.

Our Approach

With GRAISEA project, Oxfam had one key objective:

• To implement Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) to promote women’s rights and voices in the workplace in SMEs in aquaculture industry

We engaged five social enterprises to participate in GRAISEA: JALA, KWN Fatimah Az-Zahra, Pictafish, Mina Ceria Nusantara, and Fistx. Our main objective was to implement WEE in ways that were easy to adopt, tailored to their business, and could improve their business operations.

Before implementing WEE, we measured the level of WEE in said social enterprises. To support this, we formulated our own self-assessment tools tailored to GRAISEA consisting of 19 indicators. Once measured, we assisted the social enterprises in determining aspects of their operations that could be improved.