
Finding Hope with CocoaAction Farmers
On a recent visit to Côte d’Ivoire, I met Ediko Appo Agnès. Agnès invited me to her cocoa farm and… Read More
CocoaAction was a voluntary strategy that aligned the world’s leading cocoa and chocolate companies, origin governments, and key stakeholders on regional priority issues in cocoa sustainability. The program ended in 2019.
On a recent visit to Côte d’Ivoire, I met Ediko Appo Agnès. Agnès invited me to her cocoa farm and… Read More
CocoaAction convened 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 acted 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.
Barry Callebaut, Blommer, Cargill, Ferrero, The Hershey Company, Mars, Incorporated, Mondelēz International, Nestlé, and Olam.
In 2017, WCF assembled more than 50 data collectors, measurement coordinators, and trainers from 13 organizations for training sessions that were held in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the world’s top two cocoa producing countries, as shown in this video.
The following documents served as a resource to understand CocoaAction’s goals, tactics and overall strategy:
The CocoaAction 5-Year Roadmap was an effort to provide a long-term strategy balanced with the guidance required for near-term implementation. The document was not intended to be an exhaustive and complex list of all detailed activities. Instead, it was 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 provided an overview of decisions and developments leading to CocoaAction today. It was an evolving document that was intended to provide the reader with a clear, high-level overview of what CocoaAction was, what it did, and what it aimed to achieve. The document was 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 was an implementation manual which laid 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 was intended for use by CocoaAction companies and their implementing partners.
The Monitoring & Evaluation Guide was designed to direct and clarify the processes to be established in order to produce data as consistent as possible across CocoaAction. The intended audience of the guide was CocoaAction company staff responsible for data collection, information management and/or reporting functions.
Since its inception, WCF-led CocoaAction has provided a model for industry collaboration. With nine of the world’s largest cocoa and chocolate companies partnering to drive change cocoa-growing communities, CocoaAction is spearheading transformations to improve the sustainability of the cocoa sector.