LONDON, UK – The ICCO is seeking bids to produce a study looking into the creation of a Global Sustainability Fund to support growers in the cocoa sector. The study, which would analyse the feasibility of establishing a global funding mechanism to support cocoa production, would look at similar mechanisms in place or planned for other commodities, review options for potential contributors, identify the methodology involved in collecting contributions and include issues such as governance, the type of programmes to be funded, disbursement criteria and other relevant elements necessary to ensure the Fund’s successful operation.
It would also provide practical recommendations on the way forward toward establishing and operating this Fund dedicated to the benefit of cocoa smallholder growers and others in cocoa value chain.
The study is to be produced by early 2016, and a final version would be presented at the Third World Cocoa Conference in the Dominican Republic in May.
Bids for producing the study have to be with the ICCO by the deadline of 15 November 2015.
Full Terms of Reference for the study, including the background, the objective of the study, the tasks and procedures involved, the deliverables and the schedule, and the requisite skills and experience to be shown by the consultant involved, are available to download here.
More information about the study is available from Han Loke Fong, Senior Economist, International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), Westgate House, Westgate Road, Ealing, London W5 1YY, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 208 991 60 00 / 06 – Email: lokefong.han@icco.org
