CocoaAction

Overview

CocoaAction convenes the sector in order to align complementary roles and responsibilities, leverage scale and efficiency through collaboration, and catalyze efforts to accelerate sustainability in the cocoa sector.

The World Cocoa Foundation acts as the convener and strategy holder for CocoaAction, facilitating the implementation of this voluntary industry-wide strategy, driving alignment and generating new insights to amplify its impact.

CocoaAction Strategy

1. Chocolate and cocoa companies make individual commitments around aligned priority issues…
2. …where systemic and non-competitive issues are identified, solutions are designed to jointly tackle them…
3. …and are embodied in shared activities and agreed upon results.
4. Industry commits to specific targets…
5. …and shares and acts upon results, best practices, challenges and missed opportunities in a supportive learning culture.
6. Industry leads, working closely with other stakeholders to design and implement complementary activities…
7. …in close coordination with governments and other local stakeholders, and working with other relevant multi-stakeholder initiatives…
8. …with WCF as the holder of the umbrella strategy.

Additional Resources

The following documents serve as a resource to understand CocoaAction’s current goals, tactics and overall strategy:

The CocoaAction 5-Year Roadmap is an effort to provide a long-term strategy balanced with the guidance required for near-term implementation. The document is not intended to be an exhaustive and complex list of all detailed activities. Instead, it is intended to provide those directly and indirectly involved with CocoaAction with an overview of the critical path and main moving parts of CocoaAction, and how these moving parts fit together to lead to CocoaAction being successful.

The CocoaAction Primer provides an overview of decisions and developments leading to CocoaAction today. It is an evolving document that is intended to provide the reader with a clear, high-level overview of what CocoaAction is, what it does, and what it aims to achieve. The document is intended for both CocoaAction companies and WCF staff, as well as any interested stakeholders such as governments, implementing partners, general public, and other cocoa industry members.

The Community Development Manual is an implementation manual which lays out the different components of the CocoaAction Community Development package – including both detailed information on the interventions and connections to related and broader elements. The manual is intended for use by CocoaAction companies and their implementing partners.

The Monitoring & Evaluation Guide is designed to direct and clarify the processes that need to be established in order to produce data as consistent as possible across CocoaAction.  The intended audience of the guide is CocoaAction company staff responsible for data collection, information management and/or reporting functions.