What we do / Responsible business

Responsible business

We help companies improve how they treat their workers and the environment, in steps they can afford. We work with the companies themselves, and for the donors, programmes, buyers and lenders that support them.

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Pictured: after interviews in Orodara, Burkina Faso

Our approach

  1. 1

    Identify risks and opportunities

    We visit the site, talk to managers and hold focus groups with workers. We look at contracts, pay, health and safety, the place of women and young people, and the company's effect on waste, energy and water.

  2. 2

    Agree a plan

    We agree a plan with the company, with steps it can afford.

  3. 3

    Carry it out

    We help the company carry the plan out.

A yellow and white fruit fly trap hanging from a branch in an orchard
A fruit fly trap in a mango orchard

Due diligence

Assessments for funders and investors: we assess a company in depth before money is committed.

Our work

CBI dried mango, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire. We piloted solutions to improve working conditions in dried mango companies:

  • A two-shift system
  • Shorter working days
  • Leave days
  • Targets for each team on each shift
  • Air conditioning for worker comfort
  • Smaller shifts, so people have more room to work comfortably

None of the companies reached the top score for decent work in phase 1, which is why phase 2, running to 2030, works on conditions for seasonal women workers.

Hear it from the companies

Impact Story - ABASF 2Impact Story - Saveurs TropicalesImpact Story - SINTFImpact Story - FASO Global

Projects

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Benin

Export readiness for the dried pineapple sector

12processing companies assessed in depth

Diagnostics, coaching and programme design for CBI's support to dried pineapple exporters in Benin.

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Burkina FasoLive

SPVO: better working conditions in Burkina Faso dried mango

A live project that improves working conditions in the Burkina Faso dried mango sector, 2025 to 2029, funded by RVO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.

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