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IDH Cotton program About 10% of all agricultural chemicals used worldwide are processed by the cotton sector. This causes environmental damage, coupled with issues of high costs and low incomes, cotton creates large sustainability issues that produces reputational risks for brands and retailers. In 2009 IDH convened a group of retailers and brands, CSOs and funds to develop with IDH a strategy to speed up the implementation of Better Cotton. Better Cotton is a scalable model for cotton market transformation and creates tangible impact at scale on reducing pesticide and water use, improving yields and thus on livelihoods of farmers. Over the years more (fashion) brands and retailers invested in a fund for farmer support programs, and in the procurement of mainstream volumes of Better Cotton. Within 4 years the program reached the milestone of producing 2 Million metric tons BCI cotton, reaching over 1,2 million cotton farmers. The Growth & Innovation Fund now supports Better Cotton projects in more than 20 countries across five regions of the world. It is the largest sustainability program in cotton. Until 2020 IDH aims to support the production of 5 M metric tons of Better Cotton improving the livelihoods of more than 5 million cotton farmers and reducing water and pesticides use significantly.
Landscapes Cameroon IDH and partners co-develop a Roadmap to Deforestation-free Cocoa at national level. This roadmap supports the design and implementation of new policy instruments, guidelines and plans to tackle cocoa-related deforestation in Cameroon. These instruments and guidelines will be piloted in municipalities selected by the Green Commodity Landscape Program (GCLP). Together, the Roadmap and the GCLP coordinate national and local levels as well as business and private efforts to work towards increased sustainable production; protection of National Parks and forest areas and to help farmers find a sustainable livelihood.
Sector Initiatives 2021-2025 IDH convenes diverse stakeholders in established sector-specific sustainability initiatives, consisting of brands, retailers, traders, processors and producers, as well as civil society organizations and other financial institutions or academic/knowledge partners. The sector initiatives are:
Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI); Sustainable Initiative Fruit and Vegetables (SIFAV); Sustainable Juice Covenant (SJC); Sustainable Spices Initiative (SSI); Sustainable Vanilla Initiative (SVI); Banana Retail Commitment on Living Wage; Aquaculture Working Group on Environmental
Footprint.
IDH Coffee program The IDH Coffee program is committed to finding ways in which the increasing world demand for coffee can be met sustainably. The program fosters global multi-stakeholder alignment on key sustainability issues, and seek to embed socially and environmentally friendly production techniques into the coffee supply chain. IDH convenes a multi-stakeholder platform across the coffee sector (the Global Coffee Platform , bringing together a range of industry players in a pre-competitive environment. This is a global partnership model that has the potential to bring sustainable coffee production to scale, and to improve the livelihoods of millions of coffee farmers worldwide. Working alongside partners from industry and trade, from governments, NGOs and standard-setting organizations across the sector, IDH promotes an approach that is both collaborative and bottom-up. The program focuses on applying local experience gained from field-level projects to the whole global sector – aiming to create a favorable environment for all key players, and to align investments in producer support programs. This emphasis on sector alignment, innovation, and local knowledge is reflected in the broad public-private partnership agenda. Collaboration at every level offers the best means of embedding socially and environmentally friendly practices into the global supply chain. This in turn offers the best means of meeting the rising global demand for coffee on a sustainable basis, and helping 4.3 million coffee producing families across the globe to become more resilient.
IDH Aquaculture program Nearly 50% of all fish we consume is farmed fish. Aquaculture is an important source of high protein food for people worldwide. As aquaculture rapidly expands, so does its impact on the environment and people. Concerns are on: waste water management, coastal areas protection, antibiotics overuse, feed ingredients, disease management and working conditions. IDH aims to improve the environmental performance of fish farmers through two interventions. Supporting shrimp, talapia and pangasius farmers to transform to responsible practices. We do this primarily through a co-funding mechanism: The Fit Fund, that may co-finance GAP analyses, advice and training of small and large scale fish farmers on feed ingredients and disease management. Check the map below for co-funded projects Boosting market demand of responsibly farmed fish is the second pillar of our program. We do this through aligning and benchmarking existing standards and setting a responsible baseline, in the context of the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI). Next to this IDH has an outreach program to European and US retailers. With WWF US IDH founded in 2009 the ASC, to launch a consumer faced responsibility label (based upon criteria set through a 10 year multi-stakeholder dialogue process).
IDH Cocoa program In cocoa, IDH focuses on prototyping innovative field-level projects that make cocoa farming a sustainable business for the farmer, and cocoa supply more secure for the industry. Our neutral positioning as a convenor and knowledge broker, allows us to take risks in testing and developing innovative projects to generate insights that benefit the entire cocoa supply chain. The IDH Cocoa program works on initiatives that aim to improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers and elevate them from poverty to middle class, while simultaneously ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of fair and high quality cocoa for the global market. Learning and best practice from field level projects is fed back into the industry as a whole in order to improve and join-up existing supply chain initiatives. Three areas of innovation are focused on through the program: Productivity – by building capacity at the farmer level through relevant and accessible training initiatives that improve efficiency and ‘bankability’; Community – gender empowerment and curbing malnutrition in cocoa communites; Environment – sustainable land use and zero net deforestation in the wider Taï Forest region. By working to improve the productivity of cocoa farmers and address fundamental issues around gender discrimination, malnutrition and ecological degradation, a more secure and steady supply of high-quality and sustainable cocoa can be guaranteed for the global market.
IDH Innovative finance The innovative finance team supports IDH’s sector programs to meet their key sustainability targets. The team focuses on the agendas of smallholder farmers in the following crops: cocoa, coffee, palm oil and cotton; achieving a living wage in the Malawian tea sector; and finding innovative solutions to increase farm-level investments (i.e. access to finance for these small-scale producers). The team’s core work is to catalyze financial institutions and IDH supply chain partners to make highrisk investments in smallholder farmer operations, which will improve both the sustainability of these supply chains and/or landscapes and the livelihoods of the producers. The team works on developing prototypes of different innovative financing mechanisms that could be leading examples for value chain financing. The team also started to work on a deforestation agenda in 2015 by leading the development of the Production-Protection-Inclusion (PPI) approach and taking the lead in incorporating a fund that will make sustainable agriculture investments to combat deforestation once incorporated; and started to scope a fund that will make responsible apparel investments at the mill and factory level (to be initially funded by C&A Foundation). Institutional funders have formally approved the innovative finance work until the end of 2017. The team has catalyzed two financial institutions and two supply chain companies to directly finance smallholder farmers at scale for the first time, which proves the innovative character of the work and the added value to the IDH commodity programs.
Landscapes Malaysia The National Initiative on Sustainable and Climate Smart Oil Palm Smallholders (NI-SCOPS) is a partnership initiated by Solidaridad and IDH – The Sustainable Trade Initiative to support the Malaysian Government and other stakeholders to meet the Malaysian commitments under the Paris Agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the SDGs. It does so by making the FAO concept of climate smart agriculture (CSA) operational in three regions: Sabah, Sarawak and peninsular Malaysia.
Landscapes Viet Nam The Central Highlands of Vietnam, including the Provinces of Lam Dong, Dak Nong, Dak Lak, Gia Lai and Kon Tum,) play a key role in the production of several agricultural and forestry commodities such as coffee, pepper, rubber, cashew, tea and cocoa. The three issues of water, deforestation and land degradation are very much interlinked with each other and IDH plays an important role in clarifying these relationships in a systematic way. In relation to this aspect, IDH fosters cross-sectoral and public-private cooperation to address issues systematically. Addressing the behavior of agricultural commodity producers needs is complemented by changes in public policies and regulation that are equally steering and (dis) incentivizing sustainable practices. Moreover, questions about the long-term viability of certain crops in (dry) areas of the Central Highlands requires integrated landscape management and better zonal planning. In this landscape, IDH adds value by bringing in the elements of public-private cooperation, cross-sectoral cooperation, and by addressing the interrelatedness of various natural resource issues.
IDH Mozambique climate resilience pilots The projects aims a increasing the resilience of the farmers and farming household and via a holistic approach to livelihood: embedding water management at village level and plug in livelihood activities such as crop management techniques (via increased knowledge of good agricultural practices), gender empowerment, alternative livelihood opportunities (backyard poultry, second food crop, etc.).Instead of a single angled intervention (e.g. focus on the farmer only), a holistic approach to water management intervention will provide households a variety of tools for empowerment and a greater chance to institutionalize a system change for improved livelihoods.
Materials programme 2021-2025 The materials program delivers a package of interventions across the farm-to-consumer lifecycle, working with our partners to continuously deliver better incomes for smallholder farmers and a better environment, driving sustainable sourcing at scale, and reducing negative environmental impacts of key apparel and textiles materials. By concentrating on key material categories such as cotton and polyester, IDH focus on interventions in these three Programs: Better Cotton strategic partnership; Climate-smart Cotton Landscapes (CCL); and Alternate Materials.
Labs programme 2021-2025 Launched in 2019, the Life and Building Safety (LABS) Initiative is a collaborative effort to drive the apparel and footwear industry towards safer working conditions at the members’ brands’ suppliers, with the intention to embed best practices into local legislation and protocols. LABS is a separate legal entity, where IDH act as the program secretariat, convening a strong coalition of global brands, key industry stakeholders, and decision-makers, including the private sector, governments, and civil society, to unlock resources and work towards preventing and mitigating fire, electrical, and structural risks in the apparel and footwear industry.
Landscapes Finance 2021-2025 The Landscape Finance team works with impact investment funds focusing on sustainable land management to enable their capital to be invested in high social and environmental impact projects that are meeting risk and (financial and impact) return requirements. In parallel – and building on the knowledge gained by working with these funds – the Landscape Finance team also works with IDH landscapes teams on the ground to identify and develop investable opportunities with positive impact on the landscape, without being tied to a specific investment fund.
Landscapes Kenya We build on the interest of tea and other companies to conserve the South West Mau Forest for its microclimate services and of the Kenyan government to improve livelihoods of communities. Together we work towards a holistic landscape management as well as forest conservation, water, sustainable energy and community livelihoods.
Core Multi Year Programme 2021-2025 "IDH convened multi-stakeholder coalitions, helped create
new governance models and co-financed new models
of sustainable and commercially viable business
with (groups of) companies, and by doing so contributed
to change the lives of over 10 million smallholder
farmers and workers and brought 80 million hectares
under sustainable land use."
Landscapes Nigeria IDH together with key stakeholders started a Sustainable Palm Oil Landscape Program in Edo State and Ondo State in Nigeria. This program is in line with the joint IDH-Solidaridad initiative NI-SCOPS. The program is based on IDH’s PPI Approach. This means working with industry partners (from the palm oil and other sectors), the public sector, farmer associations, financiers, CSOs, and knowledge partners to jointly develop a vision and action plan that balances sustainable production (P), forest and natural resource protection (P), and social inclusion (I) within selected landscapes or so-called “hotspot areas”.
Tea 2021-2025 Sectorial commitments and action plans in living income, living wage and women safety; Service Delivery and Procurement Model
IDH Tea program The IDH Tea program brings together the largest tea packers and the most important NGOs in the tea sector. The program promotes sustainable tea production in Africa and Asia, and sustainable procurement in NW Europe and Asia. It has first-hand experience in up scaling of certification training and farmer field school (FFS) extension. The Tea program is strongly committed to working toward living wages in key tea-exporting countries. Other interventions are in the area of agro-chemical use and gender. Since the start in 2008, IDH has invested in strategic relationships with a wide range of key tea players in Europe, Africa and Asia. After the successes in Kenya with farmer field schools in Kenya and Tanzania, the program is now moving towards harvesting the sector’s ‘higher-hanging fruits’: the impact that potentially can be made but has not yet. The impact of the Tea program is concentrated in Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, India, and Vietnam. Across these geographical areas, issues that beg solutions vary widely. The Tea program implements a range of intervention logics, or problem-solving approaches, that propose solutions considerate of their context.
IDH Mining and Materials program The purpose of the initiative is to positively contribute to addressing the sustainability challenges of tin mining and smelting in Bangka and Belitung, while being conscious of the economic benefits of the sector in Indonesia in terms of poverty reduction. To address these issues, IDH has convened the TWG to bring together the international tin industry association (ITRI), Friends of the Earth and the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) – including Apple, BlackBerry, LG Electronics, Philips, HP, Samsung, Microsoft, Sony, Dell and Asus – as well as key players from the tin plate industry, such as Tata Steel and Arcelor MittalMain sustainability issues targeted Environmental and social impacts of off-shore tin mining and on-shore tin mining practices
IDH Fresh & Ingredients program The new formed Fresh & Ingredients (F&I) program aims to mobilize demand from retailers and manufacturers to accelerate responsible production practices at large scale. The Fresh & Ingredients program combines a number of agro-commodities, and provides cross-sector solutions on critical issues. The program builds on existing sector platforms that have been established by IDH over the last five years around these agro-commodities: Fruits & Vegetables (fresh and processed), Flowers & Plants, Cashew, Spices, Vanilla. The Fresh & Ingredients program aims to increase imports of sustainably produced F&I agro-commodities with 25% by 2020 (against the 2016 baseline). The program enables IDH to harmonize approaches across a number of sectors to address key sustainability issues, and expects to deliver higher field impact and address end-buyer needs to work on smaller commodity chains, particularly on social issues.
Core Multi Year Programma 2021-2025 IDH convened multi-stakeholder coalitions, helped create
new governance models and co-financed new models
of sustainable and commercially viable business
with (groups of) companies, and by doing so contributed
to change the lives of over 10 million smallholder
farmers and workers and brought 80 million hectares
under sustainable land use.
IDH Timber program The IDH Tropical Timber program promotes the use of sustainable tropical timber. For IDH it is evident that sustainable forest management ensures the forest is there for the future. IDH’s objective for the 2016-2020 period is to support certification of 2 million hectares of tropical forest – with FSC, PEFC or other credible standards – spread over strategic locations around the world. These locations will in some cases overlap with landscapes in which IDH works on preventing deforestation. In these landscapes, the timber program also aims to work on broader issues to support sustainable forest management and prevent deforestation, for example by working with national timber federations, large companies using local timber or alternative livelihood strategies. On the demand side, activities of the by IDH founded European Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition will be scaled up to include sector wide action plans with timber trade federations, individual companies and municipalities in five focus countries: Germany, Denmark, France, Italy and Spain. Awareness of the fact that using sustainable tropical timber is good, to keep the forest is key. Since 2008, IDH has invested in promoting sustainable forest management, by supporting producers and mobilizing markets. It started with certification programs in the Amazon (Amazon Alternative program) and Indonesia (Borneo Initiative), and later the Congo Basin region, making the IDH Tropical Timber program the biggest forest certification program worldwide. By early 2016, over 8 million hectares of tropical forests in the three regions have been certified with the support of IDH, amounting to 50% of all current FSC certifications of forests in the tropics.
IDH Pulp and paper program The Sustainable Trade Initiative for Pulp and Paper (STIPP) aims to mainstream sustainability in the pulp and paper industry in Indonesia and China. With its initial focus on Indonesia, IDH supports the industry with a learning and innovations platform working to find solutions that reduce deforestation and increase clean manufacturing. STIPP partners with producers to encourage sectorwide adoption of sustainable forest management, high carbon stock standard/guidance, best peatland management, social management practices, resource-efficient and waste-management practices, and integrated landscape-level sustainability management.
IDH Palm Oil program IDH’s Palm Oil Program supports the production of traceable and sustainable palm oil at scale through partnerships with local and international companies in Indonesia and Malaysia. IDH focuses on scalable interventions in “supply sheds”: geographic areas where mills and refineries draw their supply. The interventions should create sufficient volume to allow mills and refineries in supply sheds to process 100% traceable, sustainable palm oil, improving cost efficiency and the potential for mainstreaming. The program builds coalitions to solve key challenges such as traceability, smallholder productivity, access to finance, and sustainability monitoring. This is expected to improve the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of smallholders, and reduce pressure to expand palm oil plantations into tropical forests.
Cocoa 2021-2025 Sectorial commitments and action plans in living income and living wage; transparent sourcing, viable, self-sustaining business models, Production-Protection-Inclusion partnerships with local governmental bodies, scalable financing models
Down to Zero / Building Back Better - ECPAT Indonesia This activity forms part of the Building Back Better (BBB)  in times of Covid-19, Fighting SEC on the Rise programme.  The programme will work in 12 countries in Latin America and South and South East Asia: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, and the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The selected countries have particular high risks of SEC as well as compromised CPS capacity. They are highly affected by the Covid-19 related trends, with the impact of travel and tourism being an integral part of their context. The programme will also address cross-border SEC such as along the ColombiaPeru, Brazil-Bolivia-Peru and India-Nepal-Bangladesh borders. In the BBB  Programme the overall goal is to ensure that children and youth are better protected when at risk or victim  of sexual exploitation in the times of Covid-19. This will be achieved through five (5) outcomes:

1.Children (in particular victims and those at risk of SEC) are able to access specialised services that protect them, help them rehabilitate, reintegrate and reduce their vulnerability to SEC in the context of Covid-19.

2. Children and youth are able to advocate for continued SEC prevention and response in the context of Covid-19.

3. Parents, caregivers, and community leaders are strengthened to provide a protective shield around children against SEC, in the context of Covid-19.

4. Actors in the Child Protection System are strengthened in multi-stakeholder settings to prevent and advocate for protection from SEC, in the context of Covid-19.

5. Intergovernmental bodies at regional and international level, governments and the private sector prioritize SEC within the wider child protection agenda in building back better during and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The key target group (and final beneficiaries) of the programme are girls and boys up to 18 years old, who are victims and survivors and those at risk of SEC. We will mostly work with them through children and youth groups. We will also work with local and national government departments, including LEA officers, responsible for CPS, a wide range of civil society organisations working at various levels and private sector 7 actors, in particular in the tourism and travel industry and internet service providers.