A Palm Oil Business and the other in England, a unique cooperation between the two NGOs in Sierra Leone, saw the child’s labor decreases.
In the last three years, APT-Agide, the poverty of the village, which is a majority of UK in the village poverty, has worked in partnership with the local civil society organization to solve children’s labor in the Palm oil sector of Palm and Leone’s Palm of Mapco.
Naturals showed a strong commitment to ethical practices, such as planting, progressing towards the RSPO certificate and Fairtrade accreditation. Top dissolving the chain of supply of children, applies a serious “child labor” policy in its field. However, this is a model that creates unique monitoring and support problems – most of the palm oil, which is more than 7,000 smaller than 7,000 small farmers in various communities.
Our combined efforts have really allowed us to solve the work of his child in a way. With 40 local community, children’s labor decreased by 70% through a preliminary project, and the school attendance between children (in the age of 5-15) rose from 67% to 93%. Now we plan to extend our work to all 10,000 small entrepreneurs related to sowing our work naturally in Sierra Leone. As we have passed to the next stage of this effective work, we will receive with us.
Complementance and durability
A basic idea of our project, the participation of the private sector is to increase the efforts of development. Naturals are very important in dedication to the production of durable palm oil and to open new opinions. The company helped us to enter local communities by providing important material and technical support. The continued child also presented an experienced field workers for labor, training and community signs.
APT, the leadership of the initiative and the leadership of a society is as the root cause of child labor and the development of the market system in its experience. Mapko drew deep local knowledge to support vocational deposits and credit units and provide community sensitivity and promote community sensitivity, increase community sensitivity to our work with local needs.
Together, a small farmers – especially women – we supported by offering rotating loans, literacy education and new income opportunities. This comprehensive approach increased household income, which allows families to invest in education and investment in the fields, promoting children’s rights and salary workers and employment instead of trusting child labor. We strongly strengthened the community systems by creating a solid foundation for the initiatives of seed banks and voluntary rights, to create a sustainable foundation.
Stepping outside our comfort zone
Working with agriculture, faster, faster, faster, the NGO sector is more likely to adapt to a business environment. Unlike our long-term, our mission-managed projects, the immediate focus of the private sector has sometimes caused different expectations and operational problems.
Communication was sometimes slower than expected, and random delays in decision-making. Frequent persecution to maintain momentum. Changed the financial restrictions and cooperation of employees in natural planting and changed the priorities to create an imbalance in our consortium. The planting of natural planting was a leading partner in charge of the donor report, which was not always involved in operations that add more tensions.
These difficulties have taught us the importance of establishing solid communication channels and determine the real and mutually agreed times. In the same way, it is important to establish a balanced, horizontal partnership in equal positions in the beginning of each partner, and providing a clear role of each partner and the results of early investments (regular meetings, transparent reports and cooperation).
Work together for continuous change
Critical first step restored confidence with small farmers who are not owned by a real society, previously weakened with lower descent programs. Comprehensive elegant training supported by functional literacy, using a strong local influence of gravity, achieved a clear understanding of how farmers work for more transparency and confidence.
This integrated approach has significantly reduced economic stability and child labor in local communities. Credit schemes also helped farmers escape borrowed traps based on promises and allow them to buy their products directly to natural planting.
This strengthened the planting of natural relations with natural farmers, as a result, higher fruit volumes are sold directly to the company. In turn, this supplier has been improved. Increased the efficiency of the supply chain and the compliance processes. According to the prevention of the child, planting naturals planted in the path of additional 3,000 farmers under RSPO standards until 2025.
A particularly important result is designed to adopt a clearer definition of child labor in the Palm oil sector, to plant a natural context. All project partners have now confirmed this new definition of natural policy. The participation of children’s work is not only in palm oil plantings, but also in the yard gardens and households and children, the presence of children. This elegance has ensured to strengthen the loyalty of Naturals’s ethical supply chain management and adapt to higher industry standards.
We have learned to align the significant transparent communication, balanced partnership and corporate priorities with social impact purposes. This experience has increased our reputation to promote responsible work experience and affected policies that combine social impacts. Moreover, our cooperation has extended our impact on the establishment of a steady model of positive changes to the company’s activities.
Mapko contributions are equally important. Deep local knowledge and strong community connections are very important in restoring confidence and implement our interventions. Mapko is now commissioned with Natural planting in NaturalS to provide training for rural deposits and credit units for its employees.
Advance
As this phase of our project approaches, we are preparing to evaluate our strategies and to assess any gaps. Trust and mutual learning developed throughout this cooperation, Sierra Leone will build a strong foundation for our initiative for all small entrepreneurs related to planting natures.
We strive to further increase our experiences and experiences, we are confident that more deeply partnerships will be able to solve children’s labor in even the most remote areas. Together, we can achieve continuous change where they are most needed.
This project is funded by the FBK Foundation operated by the Dutch enterprise agency (RVO), which supports developing markets, supported economic growth, and promotes a partnership between the private sector and CSOs to promote responsible work experience and environmental sustainability.
