Craft Supply Chains in Africa: Consolidating our findings

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work

 TITLE: Craft Supply Chains in Africa: Consolidating our findings

 PUBLISHED BY: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing

WHO IS THIS FOR: The indigenous knowledge, traditions, creativity and skills encapsulated in the crafts we find across Africa give them an intrinsic value that no industrial production can match. But is that value recognized, and are the craft makers – many of whom are women home-based workers – recognised along the supply chain and fairly rewarded?

HomeNet Africa (HNA), in partnership with WIEGO, embarked on a process to unpack the complicated chains, their many actors and challenges. This, with a view to increasing home-based workers’ knowledge of craft supply chains in Africa; for them to use the knowledge to strengthen their organisations and to help build their capacity to engage with the actors, and ultimately begin to improve their livelihoods. This study was concentrated in Kenya, Ghana and South Africa.

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Craft Supply Chains in Africa: Consolidating our findings