Ethical Tea Partnership Kenya

It was developed in collaboration with the tea research foundation of kenya and the kenyan tea development agency.

Ethical tea partnership kenya. Having worked for the kenya tea development agency ktda for 7 years she has extensive experience of working directly with farmers. A mba in strategic management graduate jane also worked as regional manager for ethical business services at africa now before joining etp. The results saw reductions in rates of domestic violence and alcoholism as well as a 25 improvement in workforce productivity this was in part helped by the introduction of estate services such as childcare. Support of the ethical tea partnership etp the german federal ministry of economic cooperation and development implemented by deutsche gesellschaft für internationale zusammenarbeit giz gmbh and solidaridad.

It is this inequality that prompted kenya tea development agency ktda holdings and etp to embark on a one day training targeting more than 1 000 factory managers supervisors and general workers on social gender and contractual issues. Our key focus is to support farmers to develop their farms so that they can continue to thrive and provide for their families in the long term. Tea farmer jane brings first hand insights to her role in kenya. This industry wide initiative which was originally called the tea sourcing partnership was established by a number of large uk tea packing companies who took the decision to work together to improve the social conditions in their supply chains.

We developed a large scale partnership with giz the international trade centre and the kenya tea development agency ktda which organises and supports 600 000 tea farmers. Later on etp membership opened up to non uk based tea packers and extende. The ethical tea partnership etp and the deutsche gesellschaft für internationale zusammenarbeit giz have formed a three year public private partnership ppp to support climate change adaptation activities in the tea sector in kenya. When surveyed 90 workers felt economic and social opportunities had improved.

Their confidence in delivering improvements to the lives of those working within the tea sector is based on the tangible results they are already seeing. Having worked for the kenya tea development agency ktda for 7 years she has extensive experience of working directly with farmers. Back in 2014. Ethical tea partnership partnered up with the humanitarian aid company care international to improve conditions on 13 ethical tea estates on the island of sri lanka.

There is a wide range of expertise within the ethical tea partnership and the wider malawi tea 2020 network to deliver this including agriculturalists economists educators strategists and researchers. The ethical tea partnership is a private limited company that has been working with tea producers and tea companies to improve the sustainability of the tea industry since 1997. Ktda is kenya s leading tea producer by volume and export value.