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Independent Clustered Evaluation of Vision Zero Fund projects in the global coffee supply chain

eval_number:

3102

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3102

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Occupational safety & health

category:

Governance and Tripartism

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comments:

Project formulators and technical team in charge of their implementation.

challenges:

One limitation of the project in Latin America has been that the participation of MNEs, which was one of the most innovative aspects of the intervention, has been less than foreseen in the design. Some reasons for the lower-than-expected participation of MNEs in the project are that the ILO is not used to working with this type of organisations and that there was a lack of time, resources and other strategies for approaching MNEs.

success:

-

context:

The VZF intervention prioritised coffee GSC because of its potential to replicate lessons learned to other chains, because of the integration of large MNEs in the chain, and because of the existence of national and global governance models in coffee that could facilitate the collective action process that the VZF approach demands. In the Vietnam Project, unlike the Latin America Project, MNEs (such as Nestlé, Peets JDE, Tchibo) have played an important role as partners and have also benefited from it. As partners, they support initiatives to promote OSH in the coffee chain, specifically by disseminating to the community of coffee farmers and processors that are part of their network, the OSH knowledge products developed by the Project, such as studies and training tools, guides and materials. And they have benefited from the Project by accessing new OSH training materials and linking with the ILO and other stakeholders in the coffee supply chain to strengthen/expand their network. Project formulators and technical team in charge of their implementation.

description:

It has been difficult to turn MNE opportunities for collaboration into concrete plans, due, among other reasons, to different institutional configurations and decision-making structures. This applies mainly to the project in Latin America, as Nestlé has been involved in Vietnam to improve OSH and social protection for coffee farmers Given this situation, the VZF; (i) realised that MNCs engagement with the Fund can not only be relevant as donors, but can take various forms; (ii) has engaged with local suppliers and representatives of global buyers; and (iii) is increasingly emphasising engagement with industry associations or multi-stakeholder initiatives with broad private sector membership; and (iv) in the Vietnam Project, a private sector engagement strategy was devised to engage with the private sector; and (iii) is increasingly emphasising engagement with industry partnerships or multi-stakeholder initiatives with broad private sector membership; and (iv) a private sector engagement strategy was designed in the Vietnam Project and is being implemented as of May 2021, with the collaboration of Nestlé, other MNCs and the GCP.

administrative_issues:

Lesson learned linked to project design and implementation processes

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/246966

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Independent Clustered Evaluation of Vision Zero Fund projects in the global coffee supply chain