Working Groups
Delivering collaborative solutions at scale
The Working Groups are our primary collaborative activities to deliver collective impact and precompetitive solutions at scale.
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They are designed to encourage members to address complex and difficult challenges and work towards developing operational solutions.
They promotes Integrity, Accountability and Transparency through an open, non bureaucratic and iterative process where every category of members have their role to play to influence meaningfully the outcomes through regular sessions and open sessions designed to maximize everyone’s role and capability to deliver positive outcomes.
The following Working Groups are currently active:
Transparency & Traceability
This Working Group aims to explore ways to improve transparency and traceability in coconut farming, with the goal of promoting more sustainable and equitable practices and address complex challenges of transparency and traceability in the coconut industry.
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CURRENT PROJECTS:
• AN INDUSTRY ALIGNED TRACEABILITY & TRANSPARENCY PROTOCOL & ASSOCIATED GUIDANCE
•JOINT INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM
Low Carbon & Regen Ag
This Working Group aims to enable the development of low carbon and regenerative agriculture (“RegenAg”) practices throughout the coconut industry by supporting the development of necessary pre-competitive studies, baselines, pilots and assessments for optimal low carbon and regenerative practices by farmers and supply chain actors to reduce environmental impact and create added value.​​
CURRENT PROJECT:
• GUIDANCE ON EFFECTIVE LOW CARBON FARMING & REGEN AG PRACTICES
Landscape Approach
This Working Group aims to develop a sustainable coconut supply chain and production in landscapes and jurisdictions based on interests, geographies and partnerships, with the objective of spurring flagship landscape/jurisdictional projects or tools that uphold the principles of the Coconut Charter.
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CURRENT PROJECTS:
•JOINT DEFORESTATION & AGE OF TREES MONITORING MAPS
•SCOPING OF A JURISDICITIONAL PROJECT IN DAVAO, PHILIPPINES
•SCOPING OF A JURISDICITIONAL PROJECT IN SULAWESI, INDONESIA