Company Profile
The Rainforest Alliance is creating a more sustainable world by using social and market forces to protect nature and improve the lives of farmers and forest communities. To achieve our mission, we partner with diverse allies around the world to drive positive change across global supply chains and in many of our most critically important natural landscapes.
Our alliance spans 70 countries and includes farmers and forest communities, companies, governments, civil society, and millions of individuals. Together we work to protect forests and biodiversity, take action on climate, and promote the rights and improve the livelihoods of rural people.
As an international nonprofit organization with more than 30 years of experience in sustainability transformation, we understand that the social and economic well-being of rural communities is tightly connected to ecosystem health. This knowledge has shaped our rigorous programs to advance sustainable land-use and commodity production.
At the Rainforest Alliance we combat climate change, protect forests and biodiversity, promote human rights, and improve livelihoods. The enormity of the social and environmental challenges we are facing requires working together in a broad alliance. This is why we bring farmers, forest communities, companies, and consumers together to change the way the world produces, sources, and consumes.
Why
To protect nature and improve lives it’s becoming increasingly urgent that we approach the way we use our land and produce food and other products in more sustainable ways. For this to succeed we need to fundamentally change the way that businesses operate and source, and the choices we all make as consumers.
How
Our growing global alliance aims to transform our relationship with our natural resources and each other, to create a better future for people and nature together.
For more information, please visit http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/about.
Job Description
Terms of Reference
Community Based Organization Engagement and Capacity Building
Tackling forced and child labour in Ghanaian Cocoa and Gold-Mining project
Funded by the Norwegian ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norad)
Background
The Rainforest Alliance in partnership with the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) and Solidaridad is implementing a project “Tackling forced and child labour in Ghanaian cocoa and gold-mining”, with funding from the Development Aid department of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norad. The project will be working on three pathways:
- It will be working with civil society and government to ensure better coverage and implementation of national commitments to end child and forced labor;
- it will be supporting the roll-out of gender-sensitive human rights due diligence processes amongst companies and within supply chains; and
- thirdly, it will be building the socio-economic resilience of vulnerable groups and children.
As a result, children and vulnerable people in cocoa and gold-mining communities in Ghana will have increased socio-economic resilience and be protected against forced labour and the worst forms of child labor (WFCL).
Focus
One output of this project is to strengthen and build the capacities of Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) to hold government and companies to account through communities' abilities to track and monitor commitments and enabling communities to demand services in line with commitments. The precise commitments will need to be defined through this consultancy and are expected to focus on the National Action Plans to combat child labour and to combat trafficking as well as the World Cocoa Foundation’s “empowered communities” objectives. As a result of the activities within this pathway, the project will address the lack of accountability in supply chains for forced and child labour. This will be done by:
- Identifying and mobilizing Ghanaian CBOs and local communities based on needs and capacity
- Developing training, tools and systems for community monitoring activities, including digitally
- Building CBOs’/local communities’ capacity on monitoring government commitments and the supply chain commitments of companies
- Organizing local workshops with participating CBOs and community representatives to develop advocacy strategies towards the relevant government actors
- Carrying out monitoring at the community level
- Holding high-level stakeholder workshops and engagements with government Ministries, the Ghanaian Parliamentary select committee on Child protection, companies, traders, processors etc.
Rainforest Alliance and its partners are therefore looking to contract a service provider to lead the implementation of these activities. Details of the requirements can be found below.
Service provider: result areas
The Rainforest Alliance is looking to contract a service provider / NGO that can support the following output: “Strengthen the capacities of CBOs to conduct advocacy and track gov't & company commitments on eradicating child labour and preventing forced labour”
We are looking to contract a service provider to deliver the following activities to realize the above output:
- Analyze current government, cocoa and gold companies’ commitments to tackle child and forced labour and advice on key commitments to monitor/track.
- Update existing or develop new tools / systems and training to support community members to monitor child and forced labour commitments by governments & companies, based on best practices / lessons learned
- Organize two workshops to 1) discuss feedback and 2) pilot these tools to fine tune these tools / trainings
- Together with RA and partners, develop Terms of Reference / criteria for community and CSO selection criteria, selection process and support RA in the execution of this process
- Build CSO/local communities' capacity on monitoring government and supply chain commitments (2 workshops & Trainings) (CSO with consultant)
- Support CSOs/local communities to use the tools and analyze results
- Organize local workshops with CSOS & communities to develop advocacy strategy towards government and companies
Timeline
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What
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When
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Key deliverables
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Analyze current government, cocoa and gold companies’ commitments to tackle child and forced labour and advice on key commitments to monitor/track.
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Before end of August 2021
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Short report detailing all commitments, selected commitments to monitor and reasons why/ways in which this can take place
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Update existing or develop new tools / systems and training to support community members monitoring child and forced labor commitments by governments & companies, based on best practices / lessons learned
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Before end of August 2021
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Mapping of existing best practice tools and systems
X NUMBER new tools/adapted tools
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Organize two workshops to 1) discuss feedback and 2) pilot these tools to fine tune these tools / trainings
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September 2021
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Two (2) workshops with at least X participants per workshop
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Together with RA and partners, develop Terms of Reference / criteria for community and CSO selection criteria, selection process and support RA in the execution of this process
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Before end of August 2021
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Terms of Reference including selection criteria
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Build CSO/local communities' capacity on monitoring government and supply chain commitments (CSO with consultant)
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October – November 2021
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(2 workshops & Trainings)
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Support CSOs/local communities to use the tools and analyze the results
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2022
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Monthly meetings / support calls
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Organize local workshops with CSOS & communities to develop advocacy strategy towards government and companies
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2022
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2 workshops per community / CSO
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