Cocoa Life - In Dominican Republic

Cocoa Life in the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is the world’s tenth-largest producer of cocoa and is a leading producer and exporter of organic cocoa. Cocoa Life has been active in the Dominican Republic since 2016, and has been building on established partnerships since 2011. Here there are 935 farmers from 24 communities participating in Cocoa Life.

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Dominican Republic

935

Farmers currently participating in Cocoa Life

Cocoa Life active in country since

2016

Cocoa Life communities

A Story On Livelihoods In The Dominican Republic

"We're Working Toward A Sustainable Legacy For Future Cocoa-Growing Communities."

By Pilar Ramirez, executive director of Fundación REDDOM.

A story on women’s empowerment in the Dominican Republic

"Now we manage our money better and have more to invest in our community"

By Estervina Rosario, Community Leader, El Aguacate, Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

"I have seen a great improvement in the livelihoods of our Cocoa Life communities thanks to their teamwork and innovation. A great example is the foundation of Self Savings and Loans Groups where women make up 86% of membership. Thanks to our new partner, Fuparoca, our work now encompasses most of the cocoa-growing area of Dominican Republic. This is fantastic, and we hope to continue expanding our footprint and positive impact in the future."

David Preece, Cocoa Life’s Country lead for Dominican Republic

2018 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PROGRESS DASHBOARD

This dashboard demonstrates the scale achieved by the end of 2018 and how Cocoa Life is making progress in the Dominican Republic. Cocoa Life monitors the below output indicators under five focus areas. These are interventions we put in place with our partners.

Cocoa farming as a prosperous business

Facilitating the adoption of agricultural practices and providing access to improved planting materials, crop protection and financial services to increase productivity and income from cocoa.

Farmers trained, coached or having a farm development plan on Good Agricultural Practices

935

Cocoa seedlings distributed

42,480

Nurseries

Cocoa-farming demonstration plots

Youth trained on cocoa-related enterprises¹

1. Youth is the age range from 18-35 in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, and 15-24 in Indonesia. ↩

Cocoa communities are empowered and inclusive

Empowering communities to lead their own development, improving sustinable livelihoods with access to financial services and promoting entrepreneurship while being inclusive of women and protecting children.

Communities with a CODEC and Community Action Plan activated²

CAP projects completed in communities

Community members trained on gender awareness

Village Savings and Loan Associations operational

Community members who participate in VSLAs

423

VSLAs linked to finance institutions

Community members trained on financial literacy

430

Community members trained on business management

Community members involved in additional Income Generating Activities

Community members and farmers educated on issues of child labor and forced child labor

186

Communities with Child Protection Committees

Communities with a Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation System or equivalent

2. A committee elected by the communtiy develops and presents the plans. ↩

Forests are conserved & restored

Making cocoa farming resilient by maintaining ecosystemss, protecting the land and the forests through mapping and adoption of good practices by communities and farmers.

Community members & farmers trained on Good Environmental Practices

492

Economic shade trees distributed

Farms mapped & monitored

About the Dashboard

Cocoa Life routinely collects monitoring data from our partners as part of the ongoing review of program performance at the local level, so we can apply learnings to improve program outcomes in the future.