Fyffes expands gender equality efforts with new training programme
The programme is designed to educate employees, their families, and communities on key issues such as financial literacy, health, and gender-based violence
Print6 March 2025
Fyffes has announced the launch of its new gender equality training programme, designed to educate and engage employees, their families, and community members.
This innovative programme delivers key information in an accessible, engaging format that sparks interest and encourages listeners to apply the lessons to their daily lives.
Gender equality has been a priority for Fyffes since 2019, when the company identified gender inequality and gender-based violence as potential human rights risks in its value chain.
Business for Social Responsibility
Initially, Fyffes rolled out the Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) HERproject™ gender programme – a classroom-based training for employees and later adapted this training for HER essentials™, a digital gender equality programme.
Building on the success of its previous initiatives and incorporating valuable employee feedback, Fyffes has developed an enhanced gender equality programme.
This new programme offers a more in-depth and practical approach, focusing on key gender equality topics and bringing them to life through interviewers from professionals, including gynecologists, nutritionists, doctors, nurses, psychologists, and financial experts.
Designed to be accessible and engaging for both women and men, the programme covers a wide range of topics such as personal finance, communication, family health and nutrition, sexual health, and gender based violence.
Listeners can tune in anytime, from anywhere, making it easy to absorb and apply the knowledge in their daily lives.
This initiative reinforces Fyffes commitment to achieving its sustainability targets related to gender equality.
Fyffes has progressed against its public targets in relation to gender equality:
Target
100% of Fyffes own sites in Latin America to benefit from Gender Equality programmes by 2025 and 50% of its suppliers by 2030. The target is to eradicate the gender pay gap in Fyffes operations by 2030.
Progress
100% of Fyffes sites have started gender equality training (9,000 employees already trained) and with 16% of suppliers.
The company became a signatory of the United Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles in 2024.
Additionally, Fyffes has launched a job architecture process to evaluate roles based on responsibility and impact, establishing objective pay bands and laying the groundwork for pay equity.
This year, Fyffes commenced a partnership with Fair Pay Innovation Lab, a leading expert in fair and transparent pay.
Strategic priority
“Although we began our approach to gender equality through a human rights lens, equity and equality in gender is now a firmly strategic priority for our company,” said Stella Davis, sustainability manager, Fyffes.
Davis acknowledged the commitment of all Fyffes’ employees, senior managers and in particular the human resources team within Fyffes for their unwavering determination to ensure a workplace where women and men can thrive.
“At Fyffes, our people are at the heart of everything we do. Creating an environment where talent thrives means building structures that foster fairness and opportunity,” said Juan Pablo Velasquez, chief human resources officer, Fyffes.
“Our job architecture process is a key step toward ensuring every role is valued transparently, accelerating our progress toward pay equity and gender equality,” he concluded.
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