GRAISEA ON CO Vietnam The Gender transformative and Responsible Agribusiness Investment in South East Asia (GRAISEA) programme is a joint OGB/ONL regional programme in South East Asia financed by Embassy of Sweden Bangkok office for the period January 1, 2015 - March 31, 2018(3 years and 3 months inception period). It is a regional programme  based on the recognition that financial viability and gender equitable/sustainable supply chains are not mutually exclusive, and that win-win-win propositions (community/environment wins, women and men small-scale producers win, and larger businesses win) are possible.

Building on Oxfam's pilots in selected commodities (palm oil and aquaculture), this programme will utilise a multi-stakeholder approach, with Oxfam acting as a convenorto bring together the diversestakeholders to achieve the following results:

Result 1. (Contribute to) ASEAN and its member states policies have a stronger rolein promoting responsible practices in agribusiness, in agribusiness investment, in small-scale agriculture and social enterprises
Result 2.  Small-scale producers are effectively linked up in agro-commercial value chains and women are recognized in these as central economic actors
Result 3. Leading corporate agribusinesses in South East Asiahave adopted corporate social responsibility policies and plans that support responsible practices in the value chains for women and men small-scale producers
Result 4. Financial Institutions and investors in agriculture invest responsibly by introducing / developing innovative financing solutions to assist overcoming specific investment requirements (investment risks) in smallholders and buyers of these smallholders.so

This programme has beendesigned to take full advantage of both Oxfams and partnersexperiences in the region, including working with ASEAN (primarily the ASEAN Ministerial meeting on Agriculture and Forestry and SME working group) to influence the regional operating environment, as wellas Oxfam?s expertise in gender equality to strengthen the individual and collective capacities of women and men smallholders. The programme works with 5 regional partners (Change Fusion, CSR Asia, Institute of Social Entrepeneurship in Asia (ISEA), SEAFish for justice network, Shujog/Impact InvestmentExchange (IIX) as well as the Oxfam GROW regional campaign team, Oxfam experts in MultiStakeholder Initiatives especially Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) and Oxfam offices and country partners in Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines, and Thailand.

OGB regional office in Bangkok is lead. ONL will be responsible for implementation as executing affiliate in Vietnam and Cambodia and provide technical (Private sector and gender) as well as overall support.

PARTNER ORGANISATION

OGB Regional Centre in Bangkok will be leading this programme and be responsible for its implementation. An interaffiliate agreement has been established between OGB and ONL re. roles and responsibilities of each. ONL will be member of the Programme Steering Committee.

 Contribution to ONL impact indicators

1 : 50%
11: 50%


GRAISEA RICE PROGRAMME

In January 2017 another value chain (rice) was added to the ongoing GRAISEA programme. This programme aligns with GRAISEAs existing theory of change, programme structure and time frame (though it runs 3 months longer). The rice programme intends to have improved livelihoods for women and men small-scale rice producers through more responsible and inclusivevalue chains, and private sector investments, and where women demonstrate economic leadership.

The programme works with stakeholders (farmer cooperatives,civil society, national governments and regional policy actors) and Private Sector (PS) (rice processing and buying companies) to develop gender transformative, equitable and responsible small-scale producer-led rice models in three key countries (Pakistan, Vietnam and Cambodia). Learning and recommendations in countries will be combined with analysesofregional and global sustainability initiatives and challenges in the rice sector, and used to influence policiesand practices of the involved PS partners, other companies in the rice sector via the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) amongst others, andinpromoting responsible rice with the respective governments and regional bodies like ASEAN.

The management will be done by GRAISEA PMU. Oxfam Novib will be responsible for the implementation in Cambodia and Vietnam and for advisory support from the Land, Water and Pro-Poor Value Chains team in the Hague. This is fora total of 0,3 full time equivalent (FTE) for the full period of 18 months.

The Vietnam Oxfam country office will be responsible for the programme implementation in Vietnam and work withstakeholders and two rice processing and trading companies An Dinh and Gentraco.

The planned results at country level are:
[1] An Dinh and Gentraco adopt CSR and inclusiveness policies/plans that support inclusive investment practice, includinggenderequality and women#s economic empowerment in their core business values
[2] Small- scale farmers groups in An Dinh and Gentraco#s material areas have increased income and in improved position in the rice value chain through inclusive investmentbythe twocompanies
[3] Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam (MARD)#s policies on promoting public private partnership, inclusive business and SRP principles are influenced by recommendations by Oxfam and partners.