Projects

Labour Rights Project in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire

Proforest is implementing the Labour Right Project (LRP) to identify and act on human and labour rights risks in the oil palm and cocoa sectors in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. The project is being implemented in collaboration with...

Supporting smallholders to protect biodiversity when establishing new farms

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has recently developed a new independent smallholder (ISH) standard to be more accessible to ISHs, increase ISH certification and ultimately improve their livelihoods....

The SHARP partnership

We also developed the SHARP partnership and provided the global secretariat from 2013 to 2019.

This multi-stakeholder partnership brought together production and supply chain companies, civil society organisations, financial and...

Support on Sustainable Natural Rubber for CCCMC

Proforest has been supporting CCCMC on the development of indicators for Sustainable Natural Rubber (SNR) Guidance during the1st Phase of InFIT programme by working together with expert group and InFIT Programme Management Office...

The Soy Calculator

To gain a broader sense of a company’s exposure to soy, and therefore soy-related issues, Sustainability and Sourcing teams need to start by analysing the soy footprint of their supply chain to understand how much embedded soy is...

The Beef Toolkit

Building on the success of the Soy Toolkit, Proforest is developing a Beef Toolkit, a capacity building tool designed to support beef buying companies implement their no deforestation, no conversion and human rights commitments. ...

The No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE) Implementation Reporting Framework (IRF)

The NDPE IRF is a stepwise reporting tool which was developed collaboratively with companies across the whole palm oil supply base to facilitate the reporting of NDPE performance on the volume sourced in a systematic and...

Proforest Field Audit App

Developed to enable users to implement and assess sustainability commitments and legal compliance ,the Field Audit provides practitioners a smart, easy-to-use free mobile platform to collect audit findings, collaborate with teams...

Benchmarking national legislation against voluntary certification schemes

Legal compliance is a vital first step to reducing forest loss and helping businesses meet their sustainability commitments. This programme promotes legal compliance as a first step to demonstrating compliance with national and...

Enabling Workers Voices to be heard

Proforest is implementing a trial of ‘workers voice’ tools at palm oil mills in Latin America and Southeast Asia, in collaboration with Cargill, PepsiCo, RSPO and Ulula. We work with mill managers, and workers to roll out...