The CAUSEBOX gender strategy seeks to attain gender equality and women’s empowerment in our producer organizations through building women’s and girls’ power and agency. CAUSEBOX aims to specifically support disadvantaged producers to enable economic independence and poverty reduction for marginalized and impaired populations. CAUSEBOX seeks to develop the skills of producers and workers through access to free training and development programs so makers can continue to grow, prosper and achieve economic security. Our artisan model represents an important new approach to alleviating poverty based on a strategy of “trade not aid.” Our growing producer group seeks to challenge historically unequal international market relations, transforming global trade into an avenue of producer empowerment and poverty alleviation.