The Fair Labor Association annually conducts independent assessments of a sample of each affiliated company’s supply chain. For Nestlé in Côte d’Ivoire, FLA has been monitoring since 2013 a growing portion of its cocoa supply served by the Nestlé Cocoa Plan (NCP). As of mid-2015, the NCP represented around 25 percent of Nestlé’s total cocoa supply chain.
From September to December of 2014, during the peak cocoa-harvesting season, FLA conducted 13 unannounced independent external monitoring visits to four cooperatives in Côte d’Ivoire supplying to Nestlé via the NCP. FLA selected these four cooperatives through a stratified random sampling taking into account criteria such as location, tier-1 suppliers sourcing from the cooperative, certification status, and involvement in Nestlé’s Child Labor Remediation and Monitoring System (CLRMS). A team consisting of trained external assessors conducted the visits in four different regions of Côte d’Ivoire visiting three to four communities in each of four locations: Aboisso, Divo, Guitry, and San Pedro.
The executive summary reviews the 2014 assessment findings, the company’s responses to the 2014 findings, and actions taken in 2014 in response to the 2013 assessments. Â
Please note that Nestlé ended its membership as an FLA Participating Company in April 2025.