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The COFFEE Toolkit offers actionable guidance for all coffee supply chain actors, from producers to brands, addressing the most critical labor risks.
About the Toolkit
The Toolkit includes 20 downloadable and printable tools, 7 videos, and the interactive Risk Evaluation for Action in the Coffee Trade (RE-ACT) Dashboard.
Developed in close alignment with USDOL’s Comply Chain Framework, all document and video-based tools are available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
The Complete COFFEE Toolkit
The Toolkit is structured around each step of the Comply Chain framework to help users systematically address labor risks.
Definitions and background tools
- Tool 1: Definitions and Concepts (Download: EN | ES | PT)
- Tool 2: Primer on Labor and Recruitment-Related Risks in the Latin American Coffee Sector (Download: EN | ES | PT)
- Tool 3: Video – What is Child Labor? (Watch: EN | ES | PT)
- Tool 4: Video – What is Forced Labor? (Watch: EN | ES | PT)
- Tool 5: Video – Forced Labor Indicators (Watch: EN | ES | PT)
- Tool 6: Video – Mario: A case study on recruitment practices and forced labor (Watch: EN | ES | PT)
- Tool 7: Video – Discrimination against women in the coffee sector (Watch: EN | ES | PT)
- Tool 8: Booklet – Recruiting and Hiring Workers in the Coffee Sector (Download: EN | ES | PT)
Step 2: Assess risks and impacts
- Tool 10: Risk Evaluation for Action in the Coffee Trade (RE-ACT) Dashboard (Interactive Website)
(View: EN) - Tool 11: Video – Child Labor Risks (Watch: EN | ES | PT)
- Tool 12: Video – Recruitment-Related Risks (Watch: EN | ES | PT)
- Tool 13: Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) for Coffee Traders (Download: EN | ES | PT)
- Tool 14: Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) for Coffee Producers (Download: EN | ES | PT)
- Tool 15: Booklet – Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) for Coffee Producers (Download: EN | ES | PT)
- Tool 16: Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) for Labor Brokers (Download: EN | ES | PT)
- Tool 17: Booklet – Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) for Labor Brokers (Download: EN | ES | PT)
Step 3: Develop a code of conduct
Step 4: Communicate and train
Step 5: Monitor compliance
Step 6: Remediate violations
Step 7: Independent review
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