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Advocacy for Sustainable and Inclusive Palm Oil Sourcing In 2019, Solidaridad focused its advocacy in the Palm Oil supply chain on the design of European regulatory frameworks (i.e. legislation). Solidardad also submitted input to the consultation for the EU strategy to reduce deforestation and co-developed a letter to Dutch government stimulating them to push the European Commission to develop concrete and time bound action plans. Solidaridad participated in other initiatives, networks and dialogues to stimulate the uptake of sustainable palm oil in Europe. For example, we joined the European Sustainable Palm Oil Choice initiative. The UK Government launched the Global Resource Initiative (GRI), a new cross-government (Defra, BEIS and DfID) and cross-industry initiative that aims to establish the UK as a leader on supply chain sustainability. Solidaridad also corporates to take responsibility beyond their own sourcing and co-invest in sustainable (landscape) solutions. To promote this we presented four opportunities at the FONAP General Assembly. A fact sheet was developed to share the good practice developed in the Henkel partnership with TFA and GCF.
National Initiatives for Sust. & Climate-smart Oil Palm Smallholders (NI-SCOPS) The NI-SCOPS programme designed by Solidaridad, IDH, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and LNV, is a new mechanism to provide tangible support and to measurably contribute to climate and sustainable development goals in oil palm landscapes. By supporting local governments and other stakeholders to improve resilience, productivity and incomes of smallholders and workers, and at the same time protect and restore valuable natural resources, these landscapes contribute to SDGs and the Paris Agreement. It strengthens existing and builds new partnerships with national and subnational governments. NISCOPS complements and builds on existing (private sector driven) voluntary market initiatives. The initiatives have started in Indonesia, Malaysia, Ghana and Nigeria. The results of the NISCOPS programme in 2020 was shared with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in the Donor Steering Group meeting on January 13, 2021. Following is a short summary.

In 2020, interventions were defined and a budget was presented for each respective country in the Inception Report. This gave the green light to commence the implementation of the programme, and despite the Covid-19 pandemic, results have been achieved.
NI-SCOPS Partnership Development Public and Private partnership development for to furhter develop the National Initiatives for Sustainable and climate Smart Oil Palm Smallholders (NI-SCOPS)
Climate and Landscape Innovation Task Force This Task Force supports the integration of landscape approaches, climate change adaptation and mitigation in Solidaridad field programmes, and aims to make climate and land restoration finance accessible to producers. In order to scale adoption of the CSI tool, the taskforce is contributing to the UNFCCC “process to develop methods and approaches for assessing adaptation, adaptation co-benefit and resilience” under the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA). This is achieved through our active engagement in the ‘Measuring Adaptation Progress in Agriculture’ process managed by the African Group of Negotiators Expert Support (AGNES). We provide technical inputs to the process and promote the CSI as a science based tool to measure adaptation in the agricultural sector.

We have prioritised 5 key indicators to monitor climate climate adaptation and mitigation of our programmes: # of ha under climate smart practices; GHG emissions; water use; land cover change and energy use. This allows the network to have consistent data for these metrics. Hands-on support on how to monitor climate performance has been provided to all Regional Expertise Centres (RECs) and continues through workshops and webinars. 
Climate smart practices, and improved climate change resilience, are currently implemented across producer support programmes in our network, reaching 994,300 hectares under climate management practices. 

In 2020, our Climate Smart Index (CSI), an assessment tool for measuring and monitoring climate change adaptation in the agriculture sector, was accepted and published by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change- UNFCCC. We completed the CSI toolbox with a climate vulnerability assessment instrument, commodity-specific cases for climate-smart agriculture, and greenhouse gas mitigation calculators.
From do no harm to do more good: piloting new social and environmental asset types with impact investors In order to make investments in a landscape ‘bankable’, we need to quantify societal benefits to make a landscape business case. Through this project we will develop pilots with investors to define, pilot and monitor such social and environmental returns on top of economic returns in supply chains.  Soldiaridad has been in close contact with FMO and other financial institutions like Oikocredit to tackle risks in agri-food supply chains involving smallholders farmers to ensure access to finance for this vulnerable group. We lobbied ABP to put a positive impact more central in their policies. Moreover we have lobbied the National Postcode Lottery to free funds for Impact Investments. Successfully, together they have allocated more than 7 million to this subject. Solidaridad actively advocates for new inclusive finance models, one of them being a crowdfunding platform directly linking European Private investors with entrepreneurs in the agri-food supply chain in developing countries.
Corporate Engagement activities in Europe In Europe we work with private sector parties with comprehensive innovative market oriented solutions that contribute to the implementation of good practices and to the development of a service sector. Jointly with the private sector we want to tackle the challenges towards global sector transformation. 
By the end of 2020, Solidaridad had 47 corporate partnerships, which can be divided into three categories: supply chain partnerships, innovation partnerships and strategic partnerships. These corporates contributed €4,296,061 to our 2020 budget, being co-funding. Their match funding contributions are accounted for by the Southern RECs.
Commodity Communities of Change: Palm Oil We actively lobbied to improve the position within the palm oil supply chain for smallholder farmers in 2018 and 2019. Solidaridad continues to play a prominent role in the Roundtable for Responsible Palm Oil, RSPO. We co-chaired the smallholders working group and contributed to the redesign of the RSPO standard for independent smallholders. We have been nominated chair of the committee that oversees the implementation of the newly designed smallholders strategy. As a result the RSPO Simplified Smallholder standard has been approved by the RSPO General Assembly in 2019. This standard means lower certification costs for farmers and ameliorated access to RSPO benefits. This improved policy embarks an important step in the struggle to prevent marginalisation of smallholder farmers in the chain We also gave active input into two new RSPO processes/mechanisms: the Shared Responsibility Task Force and the Jurisdictional Approach Working Group. Solidaridad continued as an active member of the RSPO Complaint Panel, pushing for recognition of labour rights. Our regional programme in Asia developed active collaboration with governments and supported national certification initiatives like ISPO and MSPO that have a legal status in Indonesia and Malaysia. In India, the Indian Palm Oil Sustainability (IPOS) framework was launched.
Commodity Communities of Change: Fruit & Vegetables As a board member of the World Banana Forum we succeeded in developing and accepting the ‘Farm of the Future’ as a new benchmark, setting a new standard in banana production in which sustainability (instead of low cost) is defining how bananas are produced. This could potentially by a quantum leap forward and in 2019 we will try to get funding for this concept. We have actively supported workers unions and Cooperative of AgroFair producers (small farmers from Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Panama) to participate in and contribute to WBF, gain information about WBF, and get access to network.The Banana Occupational Health and Safety Initiative (Bohesi) project led to new legislation in Ecuador and adoption of the manual on national level. In addition, we took part in the SIFAV (Sustainability Initiative Fruit and Vegetables) platforms convened by IDH, were we co-drafted the covenant. This covenant has quite a strong certification/verification focus as it aims for “100% sustainable in 2020” - and sustainable is defined as compliant with a standard chosen from a basket of standards. Nevertheless, Solidaridad managed to get a clause included on addressing the key issues in key sourcing countries. The fact that companies signed the covenant with a public commitment, substantially improves their willingness to act. Several projects emerged, financially supported by SIFAV, however it is quite fragmented, also because the F&V is fragmented itself. Many of the projects are related to individual companies supply chains. It is not leading to systemic change. Solidaridad presented the Bohesi project in the SIFAV assembly as an example of a collaborative project.
External End of Programme Evaluation Solidaridad seeks to gain insight into results and effectiveness of the key approaches to enable inclusive sector change at scale. More specifically, Solidaridad wishes to understand to what extent the Lobby and Advocacy approaches undertaken in its AfC programme have enabled a civic space for inclusive and constructive dialogue in which voices of marginalized groups are being heard. We wish to understand how this has allowed us to achieve results in the result areas of Landscape Innovation and Enabling Policy Environments. In addition, we wish to learn to what extent interventions under result areas of Good Practices and Robust Infrastructure have (positively or negatively) influenced our advocacy initiatives. Solidaridad seeks to learn which elements of its strategy it should continue, improve, or discontinue and what new elements or interventions it should commence in the period after 2020. 


This Evaluation therefore serves internal learning purposes, so as to strengthen future programming, as well as accountability purposes.
Task Force Sustainable Landscape Innovation Competing land use and resource claims by a wide variety of actors converge at the landscape level. Landscapes are therefore increasingly seen as the spatial scale on which many stakeholders, from global to local level, need to cooperate. The strategy of this Task Force is to develop and/or strengthen policy neutral platforms that bridge the intrinsic tensions between production, farmers’ livelihoods and the environment. The platforms form the basis of a new governance structure that aims to formulate management frameworks for production and natural resource management, based on pilot tested technological solutions. By bringing together regional government and sourcing companies to the negotiating table with those living in the landscape, who were previously not involved, win-win solutions can be found and tested that are supported by local people.
Over the course of 2019, we developed the Integrated Landscape Management Cycle, that brings together the key principles of the Landscape Approach in process steps. For each phase in the cycle, specific tools are available to facilitate and accelerate basic processes of integrated landscape management. 

We have invested in a number of existing and new tools to address specific elements of landscape level programming and implementation. The tools support different types of participatory assessments to engage stakeholders, generate knowledge about the landscape and help to jointly identify and prioritize interventions. One of those tools is the Landscape Governance Assessment tool developed by Tropenbos International. Landscape governance relates to how decision making addresses overlapping claims and conflicting interests in the landscape. The tool helps to assess the status of landscape governance in a participatory way around criteria such as the level of inclusive decision-making in the landscape, the culture of collaboration in the landscape and the level of coordination across landscape sectors. Based on this tool, Solidaridad piloted landscape governance assessment workshops in the Kilimanjaro Landscape and it informed us about governance challenges and possible solutions. Tools are gathered on a Landscapes Knowledge Hub, developed on the Solidaridad Intranet in 2019 to facilitate knowledge and tool sharing, and where webinars and communication is channeled among Landscape practitioners and interested colleagues.
Internal communications Internal communications to enhance internal understanding of our way of working, mission, and vision is crucial to achieve our Network’s goals, and will receive high attention as well. Communications and Campaigns team members act as communications advisors to other teams in Solidaridad Europe, leading to higher levels of communications and better aligned communication activities. We will facilitate, align and streamline information needs within Solidaridad Europe, by developing the intranet, and organizing internal meetings.

Various communication tools, including social media, parts of our website, powerpoints, printed material and videos, will be renewed and staff will be trained in the use and share of these tools, and will be motivated to increase visibility within their networks, mostly via social media and events. New internal sites have been set up for knowledge sharing and existing sites have been updated and improved. Also, a start was made with internal webinars around more technical topics by technical experts, for example on how to use internal tools.
Commodity Communities of Change: Sugarcane As a council member of Bonsucro, Solidaridad has provided input to Bonsucro’s revision of its strategy to improve its focus on smallholder farmers, workers, women and youth beyond its certification agenda. Regional platforms have emerged to prioritize and address locally relevant issues regarding sustainability in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Tanzania. For instance, Panamericaña in Central America and the Ganga Action plan are bringing together competing players in regional platforms to address common issues common and seek mutually beneficial solutions.
NI-SCOPS Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Tool development for climate and landscape monitoring
Commodity Communities of Change: Gold In 2019, we participated in international standard-setting and other multi-stakeholder initiatives including the IRBC agreement (gold covenant), the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the Dutch Banking Agreement. Via the Women's rights and mining workgroup, Solidaridad made recommendations to EITI, the global standard to promote the open and accountable management of extractive resources. Based on those recommendations the EITI Standard now explicitly includes the rights of women in mining. Solidaridad contributed also to the Stakeholder Statement on ‘Implementing Gender-Responsive Due Diligence and ensuring the human rights of women in Mineral Supply Chains’, this statement is endorsed by the OECD and signed by over 30 companies, the Dutch, UK, German and Canadian governments, CSOs and other stakeholders together, leading to improved policies. In 2019, we also became a member of the Advisory Committee for CRAFT, a Market Entry Standard for ASM gold. We contributed to a CRAFT side event during the OECD Minerals Forum, to explain how CRAFT code can be applied in Solidaridad’s work. Special attention has been given to systematize existing information in a knowledge hub enabling new team members easy access to our best cases, tools and experience.
Practice for Change This programme aims is to explore, test and prove new concepts to overcome the barriers for impact in areas currently not addressed at scale: productivity and entrepreneurship, equal participation of and benefits for women and youth, land use change and other landscape issues (water, biodiversity).
In partnership with private and public actors, on three different levels – production site (farm, mine or factory), national and global – we can identify barriers, develop approaches to scale up solutions, build alliances to finance the proof of concept and find venues to communicate and disseminate the proven concepts. Through our partnerships, we aim to provide proof of concept to producers, producer country governments, companies and major development programmes. We will consider this programme to be successful when we see these concepts being copied and scaled up. The overall objective of this programme is to address the barriers that stand in the way of improving productivity and entrepreneurship, as well as participation of and benefits for society, such as the inclusion of women, girls and youth, land use change and other landscape issues at scale, among others. In summary, these are:
-A culture of compliance instead of a culture that stimulates continual improvement, leading to a misuse of data, degradation of label values, and delay in the anticipated trickle down effects. This leads to exclusion of producers and further marginalization of the tough to reach, and tough to address issues.
-Limited access to transformative knowledge and data to produce a business case, leading to limited access to finance, and prohibiting investment in social and environmental remediation measures for equipment and inputs.
-Limited employment opportunities and lack of (business) opportunities for smallholder entrepreneurs, leading to the young generation moving to the city or abroad, and lack of real upscaling. producers, producer country governments, miners, companies
Cotton Ranking Solidaridad developed the Sustainable Cotton Ranking in close cooperation with Pesticides Action Network UK and WWF International. The report created massive online publicity in cotton and textiles media all over the world (potential reach 17 million worldwide). Companies in the top of the ranking have used their scores to publicly highlight their achievements and therewith promote the use of sustainable cotton, by showing that it is possible to make and keep commitments.
Implementation of Textile Covenant This proposal concerns the financing modality for the deployment and activities of the India Center Netherlands, Stop Child Labor Coalition (represented by Hivos), Solidaridad, UNICEF Netherlands and the FOUR PAWS Foundation for the implementation of the Dutch agreement for sustainable garment and textiles Covenant. This proposal has been developed in consultation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, following the support facility for civil society organizations in the banking covenant.

The Dutch agreement for Sustainable Garment and Textile Covenant (AGT) is a very important instrument for the aforementioned organizations to work together with a large number of relevant parties to achieve structural improvements in working conditions, the environment and animal welfare in the production chains of garment and textiles. For all organizations this is not only in line with their current mandate and activities related to garment and textiles, but is also considered a great opportunity to implement this mandate.

The AGT entered into force on 4 July 2016. During the previous negotiation process, the parties found that a contribution is required for the work of participating civil society organizations in the implementation phase. This requires a great effort where no free resources are available. This funding concerns the deployment of the five above mentioned civil society organizations for the period from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017 with the explicit intention to extend them annually until the end date of the Covenant (which has been done for 2018).
Building on Early Successes to Speed the Transition to Responsible Gold Solidaridad continued its participation in the IRBC Agreement (gold covenant). We chaired the IRBC working group on Increasing Collective Leverage (ICL) that organized an outreach event for the Dutch jewelry sector. We requested the Insurances Covenant to include the gold sector in their agreement (currently being negotiated), and we contributed to the review of standard setting for both the London Metals Exchange (LME) and the Fairtrade Gold standard. Solidaridad joined the Value Chain Analysis working group on Gold for the Dutch Banking Agreement. Together with the other members of the working group we completed research on how Dutch banks are linked to the gold mining sector. We successfully lobbied for inclusion of ASM and gender in the recommendations of this report. In 2019, Solidardad was elected to be the chair of the European Partnership for Responsible Minerals  (EPRM). As a member we contributed to a proposal to assess expansion of EPRM’s mineral scope to other minerals, cobalt being under consideration now. Solidaridad became a member of the Secretariat and core group of the Working Group Women's Rights and Mining (WGWRM). The Gender in Mining Encyclopedia that was launched by WGWRM together with GIZ during the OECD Minerals Forum.
Livestock global to gocal agenda: meaningful civil society engagement for promoting the interests of vulnerable groups (REC Europe component) Supporting the establishment of 6 national or 3 regional MSPs with active involvement of capacitated CSOs, private sector, small scale producers aiming at a more sustainable beef sector linked to the GRSB Global to Local Agenda. The Southern Africa Regional Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (SARRSB) has been established to develop a holistic approach to address land degradation, poor animal health and low productivity in the livestock sector in Southern Africa. Focus countries are Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa; other countries in the region are hoped to crowd-in in the near future. Over the course of 2019, the Zambian Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock has announced to put the Livestock Grading app, developed as a pilot under the Landscape Programme in Zambia , into law. In Malawi, National Animal Welfare and Guidelines were adopted after consultations with Solidaridad and partners. In Zimbabwe, a pilot has started empowering women youth to develop new business in leather, because skins and hides are products that are not monetized and farmers do not see any value in them. In South Africa, with AfgriColleges we agreed to develop a curriculum on Holistic land management. The results of these local initiatives (the guidelines, the pilots, the grading app) feed into the regional SARRSB forum for regional consideration and uptake.
Advice and support to teams Internal communications to enhance internal understanding of our way of working, mission, and vision is crucial to achieve our Network’s goals, and will receive high attention as well. Communications and Campaigns team members act as communications advisors to other teams in Solidaridad Europe, leading to higher levels of communications and better aligned communication activities. We will facilitate, align and streamline information needs within Solidaridad Europe, by developing the intranet, and organizing internal meetings.

Various communication tools, including social media, parts of our website, powerpoints, printed material and videos, will be renewed and staff will be trained in the use and share of these tools, and will be motivated to increase visibility within their networks, mostly via social media and events.