Author name: Joost Backer

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 […]

The request: In collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, NewForesight co-founded the Green Protein Alliance (GPA), an initiative aimed at promoting the use of plant-based proteins. NewForesight was tasked with developing the initiative’s strategy and business case. Activities: NewForesight supported the GPA in determining its shared vision, strategic goals, roles and responsibilities, business

The request: NewForesight has been at the forefront of developing IDH’s SourceUp (previous: Verified Sourcing Areas (VSA)) approach. We first supported IDH with development of the VSA concept, this evolved into several follow-up assignments whereby we supported the transition from the VSA concept to an implementation strategy. Activities: Development of a viable business model, value

The request: NewForesight was tasked with answering the question: How can the Roundtable for Sustainable Biomaterials leverage its strengths in a changing sustainability context? What does this mean for its operational and business model? Activities: NewForesight conducted an in-depth review of RBS’s positioning, strategy, and operational performance which led to the development of a 5-year

The request: Global Coffee Platform (GCP), the major multi-stakeholder platform in the coffee sector that drives farmer prosperity and combats environmental damage, asked us to devise their new strategy. The GCP requested us to help develop a 5-year strategy in collaboration with Altruist Partners. Activities: Based on an in-depth competitor and service analysis, we devised

The request:  CSP requested NewForesight to revise the organization’s strategy and develop a roadmap to reach a sustainable cocoa sector in Indonesia by 2020. The CSP is a public-private forum which aims to increase communication, coordination and collaboration among public and private actors to improve the Indonesian cocoa sector. Activities: We reviewed internal CSP technical

The request: NewForesight was commissioned to set up a multi-stakeholder initiative to define and create action to ensure cocoa farmers earn a living income, namely, the Alliance on Living Income in Cocoa (ALICO). Activities: The process to establish the alliance involved extensive research to determine: the root causes driving the living income gap, the existing

The request: NewForesight was commissioned to answer the question: how can the World Benchmarking Alliance enable investors, policymakers and non-profits to incentivize companies to improve their sustainability performance? Activities: We developed the blueprint for the WBA Collective Impact Coalitions (CICs), based on extensive consultation with internal and external stakeholders. The CICs are intended to enable

The request: NewForesight was tasked to answer the question: how can the International Coffee Organization build a structural, public-private dialogue on the long-term sustainability of the coffee sector? Key activities: Mobilized key roasters, traders, CSOs and other coffee stakeholders towards a shared Declaration for the long-term sustainability of the coffee sector Organized first-ever CEO and

The request: What should collective action look like to address water issues in the fruits sector Chile? Activities: Activities included: Vision, Ecosystem & Root cause analysis: We analyzed the key issues in the Aconcagua valley, Chile, such as risks regarding water, biodiversity, and land degradation. We then identified key stakeholders who can be part of