Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

Nestlé in society:
Creating Shared Value
Nutrition, health
and wellness
Rural development
Water
Environmental
sustainability
Human rights
and compliance
Our
people
Child labor G4-DMA, G4-HR5, G4-HR11
Remediation activities
Through the CLMRS, we have identified 5135 children (around
19% of the children surveyed) who were involved in hazardous
tasks classified as child labour.
To date, we have ensured a systematic follow-up with 3591
children, of whom 2196 have already benefited from
remediation work. This includes providing school kits
(containing books, pencils, etc), securing birth certificates, and
developing income-generating activities for 1167 families of
identified children. The remaining cases are currently being
investigated further.
For any remediation activity to be successful, it must be
adapted to the specific circumstances of each situation and
each individual. However, many of the communities in which
the CLMRS is being implemented suffer from severe local
impediments. The most serious of these occur in the field of
education, through a lack of schools, and the personal
difficulties faced by families in sending children to school,
such as insufficient income or lack of birth certificates. Of the
26 679 children of farmers who are members of the 40
co-operatives, only 17 836 (67%) attend school.
To date, Nestlé has built and refurbished 42 schools in
communities most at need. However, to be successful,
dedicated efforts are required from all relevant stakeholders,
including the government, NGOs, international organisations,
suppliers and the farmer communities themselves.
CocoaAction
CocoaAction, a strategy launched under the guidance of the
World Cocoa Foundation, brings together the world’s leading
cocoa and chocolate companies to accelerate sustainability
and improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire
and Ghana.
As part of its community development pillar, CocoaAction
emphasises the importance of a proper supply chain
monitoring and remediation system to tackle the issue of child
labour. The strategy will help expand and replicate the CLMRS
far beyond Nestlé’s supply chain, potentially bringing about a
real change in this area.
We will not be able to address all the root causes of child
labour alone but, through the CLMRS, we are able to better
understand the extent of the problem and are better
positioned to work with the government, local stakeholders
and other businesses to address it.
Action plan for hazelnuts
The main source of supply for hazelnuts is Turkey, which
accounts for approximately 75% to 80% of the total global
production. The majority of the hazelnuts we purchase as a
raw material are sourced from the Black Sea region, which
supplied 4000 of the 7000 metric tonnes we procured globally
in 2015.
Hazelnut harvests are seasonal, requiring large groups of
migrant workers and their families to move to the areas in
which hazelnut gardens are located for the relatively brief
harvest period. Younger members of these families can
sometimes become involved in work related to the harvest.
Remediation in this context consists of ensuring that children
Empowering women to
combat child labour
Women have a crucial role in the fight to combat child labour,
as they are often responsible for taking care of the household.
Our vision is to empower women to improve their livelihoods
and eliminate child labour by updating the three priorities of
the Nestlé Action Plan on Women in the Cocoa Supply Chain:
promoting equal opportunities, giving women a voice and
helping increase their income. In 2015, we continued to deliver
gender awareness training in Côte d’Ivoire to open up more
opportunities for women, and to address social and cultural
barriers. This training will be extended to all co-operatives by
2017. In collaboration with the FLA, we are working with
women’s associations to widen their participation and increase
their influence in the sector. As one of the key causes of child
labour is a lack of income, we are also helping women to grow
additional food crops to sell.
are not exploited during their harvest work, and to assist the
provision of education for young workers.
We have been working with the FLA in Turkey to improve
supply chain transparency and implement a monitoring and
remediation system for tackling labour and human rights
issues. Our action plan focuses on the integration of FLA
recommendations and sound labour practices into our
sourcing strategy.
As part of our action plan, we committed to:
• Strengthening child labour monitoring and remediation;
• Continuing to work with local authorities and the ILO to
raise awareness through campaigns, training and an
illustrated supplier code in Turkish;
• Establishing a toll-free phone number for non-compliance
reporting; and
• Introducing a self-assessment tool for hazelnut growers to
verify their performance with respect to child labour criteria.
We have driven multi-stakeholder dialogue, together with our
two key suppliers Olam-Progida and BALSU, a public–private
partnership with the ILO and trade association CAOBISCO, and
a working group with the Turkish Ministry of Labour. A key
aspect of the partnership activities has been training and
awareness-raising sessions, in which personal protective
equipment, drinking water, adequate sanitation and handwashing
facilities and medical kits have been provided.
Nestlé in society – Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015 242