The request: Establish Organic Cotton Accelerator (OCA) – a multi-stakeholder initiative and a standard organization focused on creating a prosperous organic cotton sector.
Activities: NewForesight played an instrumental role in setting up OCA, including determining its revenue streams, developing the collaborative intervention strategy and running the secretariat in its initial year. The establishment of OCA involved extensive research to determine the root causes of the increasingly unattractive business case for organic cotton and developing a strategy to close that gap. Laure Heilbron served as the first Executive Director of OCA.
Our value: In this role, NewForesight brought together and organized the interactions of over thirty stakeholders and initiated a clear governance structure with an investment committee and supervisory board. Internally, participatory brands connected through workshops, meetings and webinars, in which goals were set and roles of the various stakeholders were laid out.
