Project detail - SUCAFINA HOLDING S.A.

SUCAFINA HOLDING S.A.

Status: Approved investment
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Who is our customer

Sucafina is a multinational coffee merchant, founded in 1977 and based in Geneva, Switzerland. The company is active across the coffee value chain ranging from farming to roasting and has the vision to be the "Leading sustainable farm to roaster coffee company in the world” by 2025.

What is our funding objective?

Implementation of Sucafina’s updated Human Rights policies and practices, and support to its risk mapping process to ensure it includes a strong human rights element. The project will include: 1. review of Sucafina’s Human Rights policies and procedures 2. support on including human rights in the risk mapping process 3. training to improve relevant teams’ understanding of Human Rights issues 4. creating a toolkit to help identify and address human rights in the supply chain (incl testing in 2 countries) 5. improve Sucafina’s monitoring and evaluation process to measure the impact of their programme with producers

Why do we fund this investment?

This project contributes to the ambitions and strategic themes of the E&S facility within the AFW team, as well as to the risk management of this client, whilst it goes beyond what is considered standard E&S risk management requirements. This initiative is linked to Sucafina’s 2030 sustainability ambitions and strategy, as well as to FMO’s AFW E&S focus for increased PS 2 and 6 related risk mitigation in clients’ supply chain. The project will support the client with improvement of its global risk mappings through applying a human rights lens on its supply chain management. It will be implemented by Save the Children, one of the leading NGOs working on human and labour rights. We believe that this project will lift Sucafina beyond compliance and towards making positive impacts on workers and broader communities in their chains, which will help them improving their social license to operate, whilst it will also be an interesting exercise for FMO to gain insight on what measures and practical recommendations Save the Children will deliver towards Sucafina to ensure a strong human rights element in their business approach.

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Country
Global
Sector
Agribusiness, Food & Water
Effective date
11/7/2022
Total FMO financing
EUR 0.03 MLN
Funding
FMO NV
Risk categorization on environmental and social impacts, A = high risk, B+ = medium high risk, B = medium risk, C = low risk Environmental & Social Category
(A, B+, B or C)
B+