Partnerships
& Projects
Memoranda of Understanding
Introduction
As the main intergovernmental body responsible for addressing the challenges facing the world coffee sector, the International Coffee Organization (ICO) closely cooperates with other multilateral organizations, civil society, and the private sector.
Over the years, the ICO has signed bilateral and multilateral memoranda of understanding (MoU’s) and partnerships which strengthen the mandate, objective, and purpose of the ICO. The signed MoU’s/Partnerships allow to work – in close collaboration with a multitude of actors – towards a coffee sector that is inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. The challenges faced by the coffee sector require effective dialogue among all sector stakeholders. A list of previously signed MoU’s/Partnerships can be found below
MOUs
Coffee year 1999/00
Coffee year 2001/02
Coffee year 2003/04
Coffee year 2016/17
ICC-120-14: Memorandum of Understanding between the International Coffee Organization and the Global Coffee Platform
Coffee year 2017/18
Coffee year 2018/19
ICC-125-4: Memorandum of Understanding between RSAC, GEOLAT, Fedecafé and the International Coffee Organization
Joint Communiqué
Coffee year 2019/20
ICC-130-12: Joint Communiqué – Open Letter to the worldwide community of coffee farmers, workers, consumers and citizens
Coffee year 2020/21
Coffee year 2021/22
ICC-128-5: Joint Communiqué 2022 Taking action in turbulent times
Projects
Introduction
The coffee development projects being sponsored by the ICO have as their principal beneficiaries the coffee producing countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific region, and aim to provide practical assistance to the world coffee economy. Projects sponsored by the ICO aim to strengthen the C-GVC and to contribute in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
1-Projects Under Implementation
- PROMOTING DOMESTIC COFFEE CONSUMPTION
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
PROMOTING DOMESTIC COFFEE CONSUMPTION
Building a sustainable coffee sector through increased domestic consumption and local processing industry
US$510 000, including US$454,021 of ICO Special Fund
Africa
PJ-135/19
March 2019
IACO
- PROMOTING DOMESTIC COFFEE CONSUMPTION in Asia-Pacific region
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
PROMOTING DOMESTIC COFFEE CONSUMPTION in Asia-Pacific region
Building a sustainable coffee sector through increased domestic consumption and local processing industry
US$478,509 from ICO Special Fund
India-Indonesia-Nepal-Philippines-PNG-Thailand-Timor-Leste and Vietnam
SF 45/20
Each individual country
IACO
- PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Africa
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Africa
The aim of the project is increasing the volume of domestic consumption in African coffee producing countries through the use of the African portion of the ICO Special Fund. Activities in Africa, implemented by the Inter-African Coffee Organisation (IACO), were organized under 3 main components: 1. An analytical review of domestic consumption and the roasting industry; 2. Support to national strategies related to coffee roasting, distribution, and consumption, and 3. Strengthening communication on the relationship between health and coffee.
US$510,000, Including: ICO SF: US$420,000 Counterpart: US$90,000
Africa
Proposal: ICO Resolution 459 PJ-135/19 PM-76/22
- PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
The project overall objective is to use a country share of the remaining ICO Special Fund to support national coffee domestic consumption strategy. The main components of the project include: 1. The review of government policies and domestic coffee consumption; 2. Building capacity for stakeholders in the coffee sector. However, ICO Members in the Asia-Pacific region are widely dispersed geographically, creating additional costs when working together on a regional project. In addition, participating countries in the region are at different stages in the development of their local coffee industry, making joint project management was complex. Therefore, participating countries have agreed to implement independent and decentralized project component focusing on activities that are relevant to each country in accordance with the development needs of their coffee sector.
US$475,000
Asia (India-Indonesia-Nepal-Papua New Guinea-Philippines-Thailand and Vietnam)
SF-45/20
- PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
Activities are under the authority of VICOFA.
US$90,000 (July 2020)
Vietnam
- PROMOTING DOMESTIC COFFEE CONSUMPTION in Asia
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
In India, project activities were implemented under the authority of the Coffee Board of India. Under the component of analytical review of government policies and domestic coffee consumption, activities include: 1. The review of domestic coffee consumption and its drivers and barriers; 2. Review of existing government programmes to promote coffee consumption, and 3. The identification of opportunities for consolidation. The second component is the capacity building of stakeholders.
US$121,500 Including *ICO Special Fund: US$90,000 (August 2020) *Indian Counterpart contribution: US$31,500
India
- PROMOTING DOMESTIC COFFEE CONSUMPTION in Asia
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in َAsia
Project activities are being carried out by the Indonesian Coffee and Cocoa Research Institute (ICCRI) with the participation of the Indonesia Coffee Exporters Association (ICEA) and the Sustainable Coffee Platform of Indonesia (SCOPI). The programme in Indonesia is organized into 4 main components including: 1. Review of domestic coffee consumption and government policies; 2. Developing promotional of domestic coffee consumption; 3. Capacity building of stakeholders in the Indonesian coffee sector; 4. Developing digital coffee platform (CoffeeHub.id).
US$90,000 (July 2021)
Indonesia
- PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
As it is the case in all beneficiary countries the programme in the PNG aims to boost domestic consumption. The first activity is to analyse the existing government policies and assess capacity-building need. The second activity is developing promotional materials and the provision of training of stakeholders.
US$52,000 (July 2020)
Papua New Guinea
- PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
The Nepalese programme include 2 main components including: 1. The review of government policies and domestic coffee consumption; 2. Building capacity for stakeholders in the coffee sector. The project management team is under the leadership of Dr Bishnu Prasad Bhattarai, Executive Director of National Tea and Coffee Development Board.
US$34,000 (April 2021)
Nepal
- PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
Thailand has integrated the programme into the Thai Coffee Excellence event, covering the contest, an auction and talk on Thai coffee consumption and development trend.
US$34,000 (February 2021)
Thailand
- PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
Not claimed
Philippines
- PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
PROMOTING DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION in Asia
Not claimed
Timor-Leste
- Rapid appraisal of the financing landscape for the coffee sector in Africa
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
Rapid appraisal of the financing landscape for the coffee sector in Africa: A business case for financing the “missing middle” and last mile borrowers in the African coffee value chains
As mentioned above, following the submission of the Africa Coffee Facility proposal to the AFREXIMBANK as the main financial partner of the project, the need was felt to carry out a study to access the financial gaps and business opportunities in the coffee sector in Africa. The AFREXIMBANK President expressed interest in the Bank’s involvement as a partner in such a study. The proposed African Coffee Facility (ACF) has the vision of making financial resources available and affordable for the respective coffee value chain players in Africa, particularly Micro and Small to Medium Enterprises (“missing middle”) and smallholder producers (last mile borrowers). The proposed study to be jointly conducted by CABI, IACO and ICO, aims at providing insight on how such lending could be structured.
US$52,460
Africa
- Building a resilient coffee value chain to mitigate climatic disasters and Covid-19 pandemic
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
Building a resilient coffee value chain to mitigate climatic disasters and Covid-19 pandemic in Honduras and Nicaragua
The proposed study aims to provide full assessment of the impact of the climatic disasters and the covid-19 pandemic in the two countries and to design a project proposal to mitigate these impacts and build a more resilient coffee sector.
US$510 000, including US$454,021 of ICO Special Fund
PJ-146/21
- ICO Coffee market development toolkit
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
ICO Coffee market development toolkit
Comprehensive promotional tools focusing on interventions that would stimulate demand in producing countries and benefit the entire coffee value chain. It will replace the ICO Step-By-Step Guide to promote coffee consumption in producing countries.
Grant by GIZ
All exporting countries
PM-69/20
- LIVING INCOME BENCHMARK ACCELERATOR
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Support the International Coffee Organization (ICO) Coffee Public Private Task Force (CPPTF) commitments to realize Resolution 465 and the London Declaration towards the long-term vision of prosperity across the sector. This commitment includes the ambitious concept of working towards a prosperous income and defining quantitative milestones on the path to prosperity in the 10 year Roadmap. which includes the establishment of Living Income Benchmarks in at least 80% of ICO member producing countries by 2025, and 100% of ICO member producing countries by 2030. The goal is to have national stakeholders and interested members of civil society and industry engage and agree on the desired benchmarks(s) of decent standard of living on the pathways to prosperity. These 9 benchmarks are intended to be milestones by which to measure progress and/or challenges to promoting prosperity for the whole coffee sector, but particularly for those most vulnerable such as small farmers and workers.
US$400,000
Honduras, Indonesia, Vietnam, Rwanda, Togo, Ethiopia, Angola, Sierra Leone, Mexico
n/a
n/a
Anker Institute – USA/ NewForesight- Netherlands
- TASK FORCE TECHNICAL WORKSTREAM IMPLEMENTATION 2022-2023
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Technical Workstreams are organized according to the thematic areas as identified by the Resolution 465/London Declaration and are producing technical inputs and reports to support the implementation of Task Force commitments and concrete actions.
GBP 1,766,000
Directly Mexico, Peru, Rwanda, Kenya, Vietnam; indirectly all IACO, PROMECAFE, ASEAN Coffee Federation members
ICC-130-11: Proposal by CPPTF regarding implementation of the Roadmap: commitments and targets of Technical Workstream Market Transparency
ICC-130-13: Implementation of the Roadmap (a) list of potential target countries to undertake income and landscape assessment; (b) process and criteria for the selection of target countries and landscapes
CPPTF-2/21: Proposal by CPPTF regarding implementation of the Roadmap
CPPTF-4/21: Proposal by CPPTF regarding implementation of the Roadmap in Technical Workstreams # 1 and # 4
ICC-132-5: Proposal by CPPTF regarding implementation of the Roadmap in Technical Workstream # 3 Forum
Sustainable Food Lab- SFL, Committee on Sustainability Assessment – COSA, Conservation International, SADER – Mexico, NAEB- Rwanda, IACO, PROMECAFE, ASEAN Coffee Federation
2-Projects Endorsed by the ICC and Seeking Fund for Implementation
- Empowering women and youth to participate in the coffee value chain
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
Empowering women and youth to participate in the coffee value chain through partnerships with a coffee roasting company and ecotourism in Uganda
The aim of this project is to improve the standard of living of women and youth growing coffee through improved and sustainable production, value addition and marketing systems. It will contribute to reducing the number of intermediaries in the domestic market chain, increasing their share of international prices (FOB price).
US$760,000
Uganda
PJ-95/16
March 2016
Heritage Coffee Company Ltd.
- Building a sustainable and inclusive coffee sector in Uganda
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
Building a sustainable and inclusive coffee sector in Uganda
The project proposal prepared by the Secretariat following a request by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) to contribute to the implementation of the national coffee roadmap formally launched on 13 April 2017 by the President of Uganda. It will contribute to increasing incomes at household levels in rural areas by assisting smallholder coffee growers to adopt better farming practices and build strong associations, as well as to develop the multiplication of high quality and disease resistant planting materials.
US$24 million
Uganda
PJ-124/18
September 2018
UCDA
- Project concept: Improvement of small-scale farmers’ access to finance for building a sustainable coffee sector
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
Project concept: Improvement of small-scale farmers’ access to finance for building a sustainable coffee sector in Vietnam
The project aims to improve small-scale coffee farmers’ access to short-, medium- and longterm credit to better manage their farms and achieve a profitable and sustainable coffee production.
US$2 million
Vietnam
PJ-134/19
March 2019
VICOFA
- Building the post-covid-19 resilience of Africa’s coffee sector to market disruptions, food, nutrition and income security
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
Building the post-covid-19 resilience of Africa’s coffee sector to market disruptions, food, nutrition and income security
The project aims to ensure sustainable intensification of the smallholder coffee farming systems to achieve income security devoid of the price volatility in the international markets, guarantee smallholder farmers food and nutrition security and promote the creation of entrepreneurial jobs beyond farming, both in the rural and urban centres. The project will support economic and social development in Africa through creating a resilient and inclusive coffee sector to overcome supply chain disruptions such those created by covid-19.
US$15 million
Burundi, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra-Leone, Togo, and Uganda
PJ-140/20
September 2020
IACO/CABI
- Terms of Reference for a study on: Building a resilient coffee value chain to mitigate climatic disasters and covid-19 pandemic in Honduras and Nicaragua
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
The proposed study aims to provide a full assessment of the impact of the climatic disasters and the covid-19 pandemic in the two countries and to design a project proposal to mitigate these impacts and build a more resilient coffee sector.
US$
Honduras, Nicaragua
PJ-146/21
September 2021
Consultancy/PROMECAFE
- Rapid appraisal of the financing landscape for the coffee sector in Africa A business case for financing the “missing middle” and last mile borrowers in the African coffee value chains
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
The proposed project, to be jointly conducted by CABI, IACO and ICO, aims at providing insight on how such lending models could be structured. More specifically, (1) Undertake a scoping study to determine the financing needs and appetite of the various coffee value chain players in selected African countries; (2) Identify business opportunities and financial needs for women and youth entrepreneurship in the coffee value chain; (3) Analyse the level of investment readiness of the various value chain players and the limitations that may hinder access to commercial lending; (4) Formulate mechanisms/models for rolling out targeted lending, at scale, to various players in the coffee value chain through the African Coffee.
US$60 million
Africa
PJ-143/21
April 2021
IACO
- CONCEPT NOTE: BUILDING A FUTURE COFFEE SECTOR
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
CONCEPT NOTE: BUILDING A FUTURE COFFEE SECTOR
How collaboration and sector transformation will close income gaps, and build resilience, capacity and sustainability for coffee farmer communities. coffee sector actors to act together, and develop a comprehensive, ground-breaking and unified approach to transform the sector globally in the following ways:
- Align policy and institutional development decision making in exporting/importing countries and between public and private sectors.
- Make data accessible, transparent and fact-based.
- Improve the functioning of market institutions to benefit farmers.
- Make sustainable production the norm, not the exception
EUR 18 million
tbc
March 2022
tbc
3-Projects Under Consideration /Preparation
- Foster a sustainable and inclusive coffee sector in Africa through building local capacity of gender and youth
- Brief description
- Cost
- Recipient countries
- Relevant documents (links)
- Date of endorsement by ICC
- Project executing agency
Title:
Foster a sustainable and inclusive coffee sector in Africa through building local capacity of gender and youth
How collaboration and sector transformation will close income gaps, and build resilience, capacity and sustainability for coffee farmer communities. coffee sector actors to act together, and develop a comprehensive, ground-breaking and unified approach to transform the sector globally in the following ways:
- Align policy and institutional development decision making in exporting/importing countries and between public and private sectors.
- Make data accessible, transparent and fact-based.
- Improve the functioning of market institutions to benefit farmers.
- Make sustainable production the norm, not the exception
EUR 800,000
Africa
tbc
tbc
IACO/CABI/CPPTF
4-Projects Concluded
- Development of gourmet coffee potential
- Study on coffee marketing systems and trading policies in selected coffee producing countries
- Coffee processing study – Rwanda
- Characteristics of the demand for Robusta coffee in Europe
- Workshop on structured short- and medium-term finance to small-scale farmers in Africa
- Workshop on coffee quality through prevention of mould formation in Ecuador
- Integrated management of the Coffee Berry Borer
- Coffee price risk management in East Africa
- Study of the potential for commodity exchanges and other forms of marketplaces in the coffee sectors of COMESA countries
- Regional workshop on the coffee crisis in Central America
- Strengthening the commercial, financial, management and business capacity of small coffee producers/exporters in Mexico and Nicaragua
- Enhancement of coffee quality through prevention of mould formation
- Sustainable coffee development in Eastern Africa
- Worldwide comparative analysis of coffee-growing areas
- Integrated white stem borer management in smallholder coffee farms in India, Malawi and Zimbabwe
- Coffee market development and trade promotion in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Improving coffee quality in East and Central Africa through enhanced processing practices
- Improvement of coffee production in Africa by the control of coffee wilt disease – tracheomycosis
- Robusta quality and marketing improvement by optimal use of coffee terroirs
- Pilot short- and medium-term finance for small-scale coffee farmers in Kenya
- Pilot rehabilitation of the coffee sectors in Honduras and Nicaragua
- Diversification of production in marginal areas in the state of Veracruz, México
- Enhancing the potential of gourmet coffee production in Central American countries
- Enhancing competitiveness of the African coffee through a value chain analysis
- Reconversion of small coffee farms into self-sustainable agricultural family units
- Coffee price risk management in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Pilot rehabilitation of neglected coffee plantations into small family production units in Angola
- Developing the potential of Gourmet Robusta coffee in Gabon and Togo
- Increasing the resilience of coffee production to Leaf Rust and other diseases in India and
four African countries - Access to finance for the development of diversification crops in coffee producing areas
- Building capacity in coffee certification and verification for specialty coffee farmers in EAFCA countries
- Competitive coffee enterprises programme for Guatemala and Jamaica
- Sustainable credit guarantee scheme to promote scaling up of enhanced processing practices in Ethiopia and Rwanda
- Economic crises and commodity dependent LDCs: mapping the exposure to market volatility and building resilience to future crises
- Qualitative and quantitative rehabilitation of coffee with the aim of improving living conditions of coffee farmers afflicted and displaced by war in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Delta project: Bridging the Gap in Measuring Real-Time Sustainability Performance
A joint project with the Better Cotton Initiative and the International Cotton Advisory Committee, which had received financial support from the ISEAL Innovation Fund, to create a sustainability indicator framework to measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and trigger the development of value adding services for farmers.
- SatCafé project: Satellite remote sensing for improved and sustainable coffee production – Colombia;
- Domestic coffee consumption in PROMECAFE region: Use of ICO Special Fund to carry out promotion activities to increase demand for coffee in the region.