Buy from Women

UN Women's Buy from Women platform, under the Global Flagship Programme on Climate Smart Agriculture, gives women farmers easier access to land, information, markets and finance. The platform plays a dual role: it gives women access to pertinent information (prices, inputs, financing) while helping them establish themselves as legitimate commercial entities with records (land, yields, track record of investments and repayments) to secure their financial future or access new markets. Unlike most market platforms, which are built around the needs of buyers or companies tracking their suppliers, Buy from Women is designed directly around women farmers' needs. It uses an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning system that covers multiple functions and can integrate third-party apps, and pilots are based on value-chain-specific analysis so that features reflect local needs and context. The cloud-based platform is available on web and app in multiple languages, can be customised to any commodity and business process in the local ecosystem, and generates rich data to support decision-making and profitability.