CHOCOTHON
CHOCOTHON: Towards a shared-value platform for sustainable cocoa supply chains
WHAT
The private sector is increasingly aware that sustainable production and community development need to be at the core of corporate sourcing strategy as well as day-to-day operations. Cocoa is one of the commodities that present a range of significant environmental and social sustainability challenges that could ultimately lead to disruption of global supply. However, no one company, and indeed, no one stakeholder linked to the cocoa value chain can solve these issues on their own.
The CHOCOTHON initiative in Ghana aims to empower and connect cocoa farmers and create new opportunities for them and other value chain stakeholders in cocoa production and to reduce supply disruption risks.
Based on the imperative that ‘true impact’ is only achieved through consensus, compromise and cooperation, this initiative is based on a partnership between the Trade for Sustainable Development (T4SD) project of the International Trade Centre (ITC), the Google Food Lab (GFL), Business School Lausanne (BSL ), Future Food Institute and the Crowdfooding platform. The knowledge partners are Googlers Give Global Leadership Program, Google Accra, Nestlé and Barry Callebaut and the Media partners: Food Inspiration and Food Tech Connect.
AGENDA
I. SHARE KNOWLEDGE
A three-day event of conferences aiming at raising awareness and sharing knowledge about three main topics: the current situation of cocoa international trade and farming practices in Ghana, the International Trade Centre (ITC) tools and tech solutions already available to include Ghanaian cocoa farmers in the supply chain.
WHERE: IMPACT HUB – Accra, Ghana
JANUARY 18th: “Current Situation of Cocoa Farming Practices in Ghana” and “Sustainable Market Requirements for Ghanaian Cocoa from the Buyer Perspective”.
JANUARY 19th: Trade for Sustainable Development (T4SD) from the International Trade Centre (ITC) delivers the Training of Trainers (ToT) on the use of tools applied to international markets and sustainability in the cocoa sector in Ghana.
JANUARY 20th: Tech solutions already available to include Ghanaian cocoa farmers in the supply chain.
II. CONNECT STAKEHOLDERS - HACKATHON
A two-day hackathon gathering developers, economists, cocoa producers and experts in the sector to collaborate intensively on software innovation projects.
WHERE: IMPACT HUB – Accra, Ghana
JANUARY 21st
9:00 – 10:00 OPENING WELCOME DESK (registration / distribution hack-kit / breakfast / networking)
10:00 – 11:00 INTRO SPEECH: FRAMING THE ISSUE // WARM UP! // PRESENTATION OF EVENT AGENDA AND GOALS
11:00 – 13:30 LET’S HACK! BEGINNING OF WORK // TEAM FORMATION
13:30 – 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 – 18:00 TEAMWORK
18:00 – 19:00 FIRST PITCH: RESUME GROUP WORK
19:00 – 20:30 DINNER
JANUARY 22nd
9:00 – 9:30 BREAKFAST & NETWORKING
9:30 – 10:00 GUESTS’ SPEECH
10:00 – 13:00 TEAMWORK
13:00 – 13:30 FINALIZE THE PROJECT
13:30 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 16:30 FINAL PITCH
16:30 AWARD CEREMONY
III. EMPOWER PRODUCERS - TRAINING OF TRAINERS & REPLICATION OF TRAININGS
WHERE: Kumasi, Ghana – EXACT LOCATION TBD
JANUARY 23rd - 24th - 25th
A three-day event aiming at training - for free- cocoa producers representatives or producers’ coaches in the use of market analysis and sustainability related tools.
REGISTRATION OPTIONS (TICKET OPTIONS)
January 18th - I.SHARE KNOWLEDGE
January 19th - I. SHARE KNOWLEDGE
January 20th - I. SHARE KNOWLEDGE
January 21st-22nd - II.CONNECT STAKEHOLDERS - HACKATHON
January 23rd-24th-25th - III. EMPOWER PRODUCERS
Please Note: More general information on the hackathon can be found here: CHOCOTHON website .
If your institution/company would like to partner with the Chocothon team to participate as a speaker/supporter or participate in the Kumasi event (23-25 January), please contact us at cabrera@intracen.org