ISEAL has been a grantee of the Walton Family Foundation since 2013, working on sustainability challenges including equity and livelihoods, credibility in claims and labelling, and innovation within sustainability standards.
Current Project: Improving Equity and Livelihoods in Sustainable Value Chains through Producer Empowerment
Project information
Project Duration: 2023 – 2025
Project Amount: $556,305 (USD)
Project summary
This aim of this project is to support sustainability systems and their private and public partners in multiple sectors to advance on equality and equitable opportunity to benefit, and improved food and livelihoods security.
With a focus on producer empowerment as a lever of change for advancing towards equity and livelihood outcomes, we are drawing on cross-sector learning and experience to build momentum and create solid foundations for further work on equity and livelihoods within the seafood sector.
Our ultimate goal is to disseminate learnings from cross-sectoral approaches about key equity concepts and strategies to empower producers through:
- Strengthening the voice and engagement of small and marginalised producers.
- Improving access to markets’ performance improvements and livelihood opportunities.
This project works in complement with several of our other grants, including our work in the Living Income Community of Practice.
Project priority countries
This project has a global focus.
Target audiences
- ISEAL members and broader sustainability systems
- Conservation NGOs
- Stakeholders and companies in the seafood sector
- Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP)
Project outcomes
- Build out a greater understanding of equity approaches to advance producer empowerment, alongside the creation of five case studies.
- Improvement of measurement and data insights on equity.
- Bring learnings and recommendations for advancing producer empowerment and equity work to the seafood sector.
Previous projects with the Walton Family Foundation
- Credible Progress – A Sustainability Standards Improvement Framework, 2019 - 2021
- The Future of Sustainability Standards – ISEAL Innovations Program, 2015 – 2017
- Driving Credibility and Understanding in Claims and Labelling, 2013 – 2015
About the Walton Family Foundation
You can find out more about the Walton Family Foundation’s work on their website.