Cocoanect presentation

1. FBK Kennissessie 31 October 2019
VSLA+CHILD presentation

3. A b o u t C o c o a n e c t
Dedicated sustainable supply chains with farmer
groups, local exporters, and chocolate makers
50+ staff in origins to design, implement, and
supervise sustainability projects and secure cocoa
quality and shipments
Projects cover 60,000+ farmers in Côte d’Ivoire,
Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon

4. W H AT :
VSLAs are great, but…
share-outs too often spent on shor t term
needs/wants
VLSAs are great, and…
we can use them as a platform to have broader
impact

5. W H AT : V S L A + G A L S
GALS = Gender Action
Learning System
Components:
Par ticipator y & visual tools
Financial capacity building
Development of household
business plans
Promoting gender equality
Pilot in Ghana with 500
farmers

6. H o w c a n w e u s e V S L A s t o t a c k l e
c h i l d l a b o u r ?
VSLA + GALS + CHILD
VLSA+CHILD
CHILD = Child-Household Intervention for
Learning & Development

7. W H Y :
Existing initiatives to tackle child labour in the cocoa supply
chain are focused on monitoring and direct remediation
Our aim: develop a bottom-up, community driven approach
that addresses root causes of child labour, based on the
VSLA+GALS method
This addresses:
Child labour
Gender inequality
Living income gap

8. W H O & H O W : C o c o a n e c t ’s F B K
p r o j e c t
Partners:
Kokoo Pa cooperative
Child Rights International (CRI)
Participatory Development Associates (PDA)
Industry support from chocolate makers
Interventions
Establishment of VSLA groups
+GALS+CHILD module
Group- and Household Development Plans
Child labour monitoring

9. H O W : T h e V L S A + C H I L D m e t h o d
Activity / intervention Child labour incorporation
VSLA group level
GALS sensitization
Gender Balance Tree
Child labour sensitization
Child Protection Onion
Group-level Community Plan CL focus, e.g. transport to school
Social funds Link to CL issues in community plan
Household level
Household Development Plans
Financial literacy & business
development
Parenting sessions
How to invest household income in child
wellbeing
Steering, not forcing

10. H O W : c h i l d l a b o u r m o n i t o r i n g
VSLA groups
• Group discussions to identify:
• Root causes
• Most common CL types
• Baseline – endline comparison
• Identify priority zones – targeted tackling of causes outside of FBK project
CLMRS-light
• Community, household & farm surveys
• Based on KPIs and questionnaires of ICI, GCLMS, Vérité
• Child Labour Committees trained & strengthened to collect data

11. Q u e s t i o n s / l i m i t a t i o n s
Method still in development
Your feedback is welcome!

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