Structuring a sustainability approach is essential to strengthen the credibility of your commitments, ensure compliance with current regulations, and meet stakeholders’ expectations.

The objectives of our services are multiple:

 

Structure

Define your sustainability expectations and align the practices of your suppliers by formalizing a set of specifications, either within a targeted scope, such as premium management, or across the full spectrum of sustainability expectations.

Implement

Support the implementation of your standard and ensure its integrity.

Support

Provide value chain actors with guidelines and instructions to improve their practices and comply with local or international requirements.

Different deliverable formats depending on the purpose of the approach:

  • Good practices guide
    Collection of good practices to be implemented by your suppliers.
  • Protocol
    Definition of processes and tools to manage one or more sustainability issues.
    Example: traceability protocol.
  • Sustainability standard
    Complete set of sustainability requirements to be met by suppliers joining the group’s sustainability program

Zoom on an exemple of service: Implementation of private sustainability standards

Objective

Support the implementation of your sustainability standard and ensure its integrity.

Méthodology

1/ Definition of the framework documents for the standard:

  • Establishment of verification methods, roles and responsibilities of stakeholders, and supplier compliance criteria.
  • Creation of audit report templates.

2/ On-boarding and training of cooperatives and control bodies on the standard.

3/ Monitoring of audit quality and delivery timeline (validation of reports, delivery of verification audits).

5/ Control of standard integrity compliance and proposal of recommendations for continuous improvement.

 

Results and deliverables

  • Framework documents of the standard.
  • Training materials for suppliers and control bodies.
  • Validated audit reports.
  • Integrity report and lessons learned.

Discover our rubber traceability protocol

Rubber Traceability Protocol for Smallholders organizations
Developing transparency in the rubber sector of Côte d’Ivoire

Co-developed with the trader Cocoasoure, this protocol is dedicated to rubber traceability for smallholders and establishes the requirements for implementing a robust rubber traceability system from farm to export.

The main objective of this protocol is to ensure full traceability of rubber cup lumps, providing reliable information on the geolocation of production plots and the production period.

Templates and tools are available to support all stakeholders, from smallholder farmers to local exporters, to ensure their compliance with the requirements set out in the protocol.

Access the protocol