Support to small cacao farmers VECO- Indonesia supports the development of sustainable agriculture chains (SACD), encompassing innovative sustainable agriculturalpractices for production, value adding of SA products to benefit family farmers, improved access to markets, and stimulating consumers to purchase products from SA chains. Furthermore, it supported the advocacy of local and national level policies that favor the position of the organized family farmers practicing SA.

VECO- Indonesia works through strategic partnerships with local NGOs, farmer organizations, national network organizations and private actors. In 2010, VECO Indonesia works with 22 direct partners in 5 provinces, 19 districts and Greater Jakarta.

VECO- Indonesia  promote the role of women in leadership positions of farmer organizations and increased attention for post-harvesting issues were often women are more involved.

VECO- Indonesia has adopted several strategies for gender main streaming in Agriculture chains that receive full attention. For VECO-Indonesia gender means an equitable access to and control over productive resources and benefits and an equitable participation of women and men in decision-making in agriculture choices at every level, i.e. gender equity and equal opportunities.

- VECO-Indonesia has started to increase its efforts to gender main streaming in its SACD programme since 2009. More specifically gender is promoted/ integrated in the programme through:
-  In the VECO-Indonesia programme, gender indicators, results and activities are formulated and used since 2010;
-  Gender is fully integrated in the Planning, Monitoring and Learning system (PLA) of VECO-Indonesia and this is used to make necessary adjustments in the programme
-  A gender baseline has been designed and is implemented in order to measure progress/results of gender related activities during and at the end of the present programme.
- Organization of yearly gender sessions for VECO staff to discuss specific gender issues, strategies and progress;
- A gender responsible person has been assigned who works inside the programme team (advocacy officer) with experience in gender methodologies <(>&<)> activities;
-  At the Farmer organization level both VECO-Indonesia and partners develop specific interventions to improve the position of women within Farmer Organizations and recognition of their role in value chains.

VECO-Indonesia has demonstrated to be accountable and well managed organization.  Financial management was consistently rated satisfactory for the past years.

This program of VECO Indonesia on Cocoa Chain Development is geographically focused on West-Sulawesi (Polman district), South-Sulawesi (Luwu district) and East Nusa Tengarra-NTT (Flores island: Ende, Sikka and East-Flores districts). There is good scope for up-scaling the activities and number of beneficiaries for the VECO Cocoa.

1. There will have been a growth in membership of farmer organizations with increased volumes of Cocoa beans traded
2. In collaboration with Mars Incorporated Indonesia, programme activities in Cocoa development in new districts: Luwu Utara district (South Sulawesi) and Sikka district (Flores) will have started;
3. Successful models for sustainable Cocoa Chain development (VECO programme experiences) by local governments, private sector (i.e. BWI) and other development actors, leading to new development efforts in the sustainable Cocoa sector and further collaboration between Farmer Organization and Private sector will have been adopted.
4.  By 2014, VECO-Indonesia will have contributed its experience and in a critical discussion about sustainability and the role of the private sector in Indonesia with the different stakeholders (including civil society). It will link up with other ON partner BWI and with the global campaigning and advocacy efforts of ON.