Eastern Africa: HIVOS says sexual harassment in flower sector '"prevalent" but "widely unacknowledged"; launches initiative on model sexual harassment policy for sector
"Stop Sexual Harassment Project: A Model Sexual Harassment Policy for the Flower Sector in Eastern Africa"
...[HIVOS] Stop Sexual Harassment Project...will work with the following project partners to implement an enhanced intervention in Eastern Africa:Kenya– Workers Rights Watch and Haki Mashinani; Uganda– Uganda Flower Growers Association (UFEA), Uganda Horticulture Industrial Service Providers and Allied Workers Union (UHISPAWU), Uganda Workers’ Education Association (UWEA), and National Organization of Peer Educators (NOPE);Tanzania – Tanzania Plantation and Agricultural Workers’ Union (TPAWU);Ethiopia- National Federation of Farm Plantation and Fisheries and Agro-Industries Trade Union (NFFPFATU).The goal of the project is to promote a workplace and community culture that is responsive to addressing sexual harassment in the flower farms. [The project will] enhance a culture and systems for protecting workers from sexual harassment in the workplace; To develop replicable and scalable best practice methodologies for protecting workers from sexual harassment in the workplace.