Consultancy assignment: Mapping of fundraising opportunities At International Cocoa Initiative

ICI is a Switzerland based non-profit foundation that works to ensure a better future for children in cocoa growing communities. It is a multi-stakeholder partnership advancing the elimination of child labour and forced labour by uniting the forces of the cocoa and chocolate industry, civil society, farming communities, governments, international organisations and donors. By 2025, ICI aims to have significantly contributed to the achievement of SDG 8.7 and the advancement of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in the cocoa sector.

To achieve this ambition, ICI’s 2021-2026 Strategy aims for a responsible cocoa supply-chain (where systems and services that responsibly and transparently prevent and remediate child labour and forced labour are strengthened, conjoined and scaled-up), working within a supportive enabling environment (where national and international policies and systems are conducive to change) as part of an integrated and coordinated multi-stakeholder effort. The achievement of these strategic objectives assumes a year-on-year increase in core and project funding, including through targeted fundraising dedicated explicitly to the prevention or remediation of child labour and forced labour and the upscaling of effective practices.

For this purpose, ICI is commissioning a scoping of possible fundraising opportunities to be further explored and implemented as of 2022.

Assignment: Objective and scope of work

The objective of this assignment is to help ICI developing a solid fundraising plan of action based on a careful assessment of opportunities, both in terms of traditional (public/non-profit/institutional) and innovative fundraising models.

This includes:

1. Identification of needs: Mapping of ICI’s fundraising needs and strategic objectives.
2. Identification of opportunities: Scoping and mapping of potential institutional funding donors and partnership opportunities, identifying priority targets and defining strategies to increase institutional resource mobilisation success; Scoping and mapping of potential operational programme funding donors and partnership opportunities, identifying priority targets and defining strategies to increase project funding success; Scoping and mapping of specific innovative funding models to increase institutional and/or project resource mobilisation for ICI and/or the cocoa sector at large. Define strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and gaps based on ICI’s comparative advantage.
3. Draw conclusions and recommendations: Present key findings and recommendations for ICI in a written report.

Timeframe

This assignment is to be conducted between December 2021 and February 2022.

Requirements

The consultant should meet the following requirements:

• Proven experience in non-profit fundraising, incl. experience in raising funds from other geographies (internationally).
• Background in human rights, child rights, and/or child protection, experience working on child labour an asset.
• Knowledge of smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, ideally including the cocoa supply chain.
• Proficient in writing proposals and reports.
• Ability to work in English and French.
• Be registered as a business or independent contractor.