Adjusting Living Income Benchmarks for Household Size in the Cocoa Sector: Methodological Note from the Ben & Jerry’s Tony’s Open Chain MEL Working Group
The full report examines how an inter-organizational Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Working Group – worked to align on ways of measuring and reporting progress towards living income within two cocoa co-operatives in Côte d'Ivoire.
Aligning Living Income Methodologies in the Cocoa Sector: Lessons from the Ben & Jerry’s and Tony’s Open Chain MEL Working Group
Since 2021, an inter-organizational Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Working Group has navigated the challenges associated with common data collection practices for measuring and reporting cocoa incomes
Unlocking targeted approaches to improve household resilience of cocoa farmers
Efforts aiming to achieve resilience in the cocoa sector have been going on for 60 years. Progress has been achieved through decades of investment in sustainability programs, but the efforts have not yielded desired results
The first consultation paper was released by the end of 2023. "Good Purchasing Practices in Cocoa," delves into the principles and steps that cocoa and chocolate companies should adopt for sustainable core business practices.
Monetary and non-monetary poverty measures from a living income perspective
Summary report
Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was developed in opposition to a purely monetary approach that reduces poverty to a lack of household income. MPI understands poverty as experienced deprivations, rather than insufficient household income.
Author:
Johannes von Engelhardt, Molly Leavens, Stephanie Daniels
Monetary and non-monetary poverty measures from a living income perspective
Full paper
This paper compares the methodology, both conceptually and operationally, of a living income gap assessment (i.e., the measure of how actual income of a household compares to a living income benchmark), to well-known poverty measures based on evaluation o
Author:
Johannes von Engelhardt, Molly Leavens, Stephanie Daniels
