Our Impact
The Rainforest Alliance, in partnership with Unilever, continues to work with The Centre for Child Rights and Business to strengthen gender equality across Sri Lanka’s tea sector through the Gender Champions programme.
In Phase 1 (2024), The Centre supported Agarapatana Plantations to introduce the programme across all 19 of its tea estates. This pioneering phase trained 79 Gender Champions, who have since driven awareness and action on gender issues across their estates. Read more here.
Building on this foundation, Phase 2 extended the programme to 13 additional estates in Lindula and Hatton, deepening impact and ensuring more women and men in the sector have the tools to create lasting change.
Key highlights from Phase 2 so far:
Each estate nominated four Gender Champions (two women, two men), bringing together HR staff, estate managers, and worker representatives from existing gender and grievance committees.
A total of 49 new champions have been trained, alongside child development officers and welfare officers.
Four specialised workshops have been delivered: Gender Transformative Learning, Gender Sensitisation for Managers, Redressing Grievances, and Training of Trainers.
Together, these champions are strengthening grievance mechanisms and addressing systemic gender inequalities, creating safer, fairer and more inclusive workplaces for workers and their families.
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