THE COCOA SNAPSHOT
21/22 FULL-YEAR REVIEW

What is Cocoa Horizons?
An impact driven program with the vision to drive cocoa
farmer prosperity by creating self-sustaining communities
that protect nature and children.
Cocoa Horizons is:
A non-profit organisation
Third party verified
Highly transparent on income and methodology
Addressing cocoa challenges and beyond
Focusing on impact

The program is active in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana,Cameroon, Nigeria, Brazil, Ecuador and Indonesia.

By partnering with the Cocoa Horizons Foundation, you support
the Sustainable Development Goals:
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment

2021/22 HIGHLIGHTS
223,235

27%

registered farmers

of women

Prospering
Farmers
of farmers delivering

233,216

tons of Horizons cocoa
sold in bean equivalent+33% vs prior year

37 Mio

CHF income+31% vs prior year

Community &Child Protectionof farmer groups with

100%of the farmers who
delivered Horizons cocoa
received the premium

Thriving
Natureof farmers delivering

39% cocoa had access to a

95% systems in place for76% cocoa with all plots

Deployment of labor teams tosupport farmers increasing
their yields withpre-harvest work.

Enhanced focus on community
centric approach in addition toindividual approach to enable
lasting change on child protection.

Acceleration of agroforestry tohelp farmers diversify theirincome while capturing carbon.

Farm Business Plan

child labor monitoring

mappedPROSPERING FARMERSTRACEABILITY

151,810 farmers delivering Horizons cocoa

76% of farmers with fulldata, +25% vs prior year.

84,697 in Côte d’Ivoire

1,180 in Brazil

51,644 in Ghana

547 in Indonesia

11,515 in Cameroon

100% of the farmers
who delivered Horizons
cocoa received thepremium.

1,246 in Ecuador

981 in Nigeria

The majority of Horizons cocoa follows the mass balance principle : it is traced
from farmer to the first program implementer’s warehouse. Horizons cocoa
is also available as fully segregated cocoa mass: Cocoa Horizons Inside.

Digital payments started to secure faster and more efficient
premium payments to farmers.
FABIEN, cocoa farmer from Cameroon“My premium was paid digitally this year. Receiving premium ontime, especially when children have to resume the academic year isa wonderful idea. Thanks to digital premium payment, I received mypayment while in my home. As a result, my money is more secure in
my mobile account, making me the master of my operations.”

70% of the farmers
delivering cocoa aregraduated andmoving to individual
coaching and FarmServices.

COCOA HORIZONSACADEMY
Farmer graduation allows the evaluation offarmer knowledge, training outcomes and gaps
to refocus resources from Farmer Field schools
to coaching.
Good Agricultural Practices, Social andEnvironmental aspects are covered in thegraduation test.
In total, 214,305 farmers are graduated, up 39%
vs prior year.

FARM SERVICES
39% of the farmers delivering cocoa hadaccess to a Farm Business Plan.
The Farm Business Plan is the cornerstone of theprocess to improve the livelihoods of farmers andtheir communities.
83,148 farmers had access to a Farm Business Plan
and 40,895 farmers received productivity packages.
It means 48% adoption of the Farm Business Plan.

43% of the farmers above the poverty line*.
To address the poverty challenge, in addition toinnovative farm services, individual coaching andincome diversification, we support farmers toobtain land documentation. By securing their land,
farmers are willing to invest in their farms, leadingto productivity and income increases. In Côted’Ivoire the project keeps being rolled out to reach
9,000 farmers by 2023.
*as per the World Bank's definition for extreme poverty line

INNOVATIVE
PRE-HARVEST APPROACH
6,000 farmers in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana
benefiting from pre-harvest labor.
Farmers spend 70% of their time in post-harvest
activities and only 30% in pre-harvest, with little tono investment. Pre-harvest investment is criticalto improve productivity. Therefore, we started
supporting farmers with pre-harvest labor.

COMMUNITY& CHILD PROTECTION
CHILD PROTECTION: RISK BASED APPROACH
95% of farmer groups with systems in place for childlabor monitoring, +17% vs prior year.
We apply a risk based approach: cocoa farming communities arecategorized as low, medium or high risk based on socio-economic
census data and an algorithm (leveraging knowledge from CLMRS
activities) to determine priority of implementation. Theinterventions are then planned and prioritized in accordance withthe risk identified and the needs of the child and community.
With this approach, the resources are deployed in the mostefficient way in order to fight child labor.
54,601 households surveyed, up 37% vs prior year;
104,395 children surveyed identifying 19,388 cases. This means
81% of children interviewed were not involved in Child Labor.
36,789 cases identified from prior years are under remediation.

Remediation activities like school kit distribution helps
providing children with access to quality education.
SANDRA, 11 years old pupil from Ghana"I cannot believe I have brand new shoes, books and pencils. Mama will
not need to struggle to buy a new school uniform for me! I’m so happy,
all I want to do is just dance. I do not have to look different from myfriends at school anymore because I did not have a school uniform.”

COMMUNITY CENTRIC APPROACH
Community Action Plans, VSLAs,
Income Generating Activities andSensitization are enablers to create
empowered communities to further
sustain the remediation, prevent
incidents and make lasting change inaddition to the individual approach.

In Cameroon, sensitization offarmers and communities via
radio programs has started.
In Côte d’Ivoire, the Cocoa
Horizons truck was able torestart its community
sensitization activities.

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
1,113 VSLAs established and consolidated acrossCôte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Cameroon.
Women empowerment has a positive impact on preventing
child labor and improving household income. This year
41,632 women are registered Cocoa Horizons farmers.
The creation and strengthening of the Village Savings andLoan Associations (VSLAs) helps, among other things, topromote a women's empowerment approach, build selfconfidence and offer financing solutions for members.
71% of the VSLA members are women.
We will continue strengthening and expanding them in theyears to come.

THRIVING NATURE
FOREST PROTECTION, RESTORATION, SENSITIZATION
88% of cocoa is demonstrated not
to be contributing to deforestation.
ca. 6 Mio seedlings were distributed,+67% vs prior year.

In addition to farm mapping to ensure the cocoa is not
coming from protected areas, multiple activities areimplemented with the cocoa farming communities:
environmental protection sensitization, agroforestry,restoration and shade tree distribution.
For example, the Agbo project in Côte d’Ivoire, started in2021, already contributed to the restoration of 300 ha offorest.

MIRANDA, cocoa farmer from Ecuador

MIRANDA“I received 50 native trees to start reforesting
in my farm of 5 hectares. My biggest pride isto produce cocoa in contact with nature, as I
consider myself a protector of our local floraand fauna. Receiving native trees and being
able to start a process of reforestation wastherefore a great moment for me.”

ROBUST AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMSIn this new agroforestry approach, farmers aresupported with a clear diagnosis of their farm, a strong
coaching and receive payments for ecosystem services.
Implementing intense agroforestry systems enables farmers topromote biodiversity, improve cocoa yield, reduce pest anddiseases, provide an additional source of income and sequester
carbon.

140,929 tons of CO₂ were sequesteredthrough all the environmental activities.

OUTLOOK
We will continue to deploy our pre-harvest approach, secure land
documentation and extend agroforestry systems which will improve
the overall productivity and income of the farmers.
The Foundation's ambition will remain on:
Achieving 100% full data to promote higher efficiency andexecution of activities;
Strengthening human rights due diligence across countries;
Focusing on a strong community-centric approach to address thesystemic issue of child labor;
Deploying labor teams to help farmers increase yields and income;Accelerating on agroforestry to advance towards our carbon
reduction goals aligned with the Science-Based Targets Initiative;
Expandingtheprogram

tothirdparty

implementersandstrengthening in existing countries.

INCOME
DISTRIBUTION
2021/2022 in CHF

COCOA HORIZONSPROGRAM INCOME

37,366,256

2021/22 INCOME ALLOCATIONS*COCOA HORIZONS PROGRAM EXPENSES
Farmer and farmerorganization premium

8,122,224

Productivity expenses

11,921,700

Community expenses

4,541,555

Environmental expenses

2,943,346

Administrative expenses

4,890,614

Productivityexpenses 37%

Community expenses
20%

Environmentalexpenses 10%
Farmer and farmerorganization premium
20%

Administrative
expenses 13%*Actual allocations may vary by +/- 5-10% based on local conditions and situational specifics.

The above is an extract from the Foundation’s annual regulatory return. The Foundation’s financial audit is performed byPricewaterhouseCoopers AG, Switzerland. Supplementary program income less expenses carried over to next Fiscal year.

All of the information contained above has been verified by PwC.
The performance indicators in this Snapshot (except thosemarked with an *) represent extracts from the Cocoa Horizons
Foundation Update Report for the year ended 31 August 2022, forwhich PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) were appointed toprovide independent assurance. PwC performed an assurance
engagement in accordance with the International Standard on
Assurance Engagements 3000 (Revised), the scope of which wasto provide limited assurance over the KPIs contained within theUpdate Report.
The Update Report, and PwC's Limited Assurance Report, can befound at cocoahorizons.org/reports.
Disclaimer related to the UN SDGs:
The content of this publication has not been approved by theUnited Nations and does not reflect the views of the United
Nations or its officials or Member States.