IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS

The BCI seeks to develop strong and supportive partnerships with different organisations that are experienced and interested in working with smallholder farmers, to enable them to grow Better Cotton and make continuous improvement. These organisations could be NGOs, inter-governmental organisations, traders, ginners, or government departments. In BCI terminology any organisation carrying out farm support work are termed, Implementing Partners.

 

Such a partnership needs defined roles, responsibilities and support, which would form part of a signed agreement between the BCI and the implementing organisation. Any organisation signing an implementation partnership agreement (template available to download) would be asked to also join the BCI as a member or as a public partner, whichever was appropriate. As members the organisations would receive additional membership benefits and services.

 

Support and advice from the BCI will be the key responsibilities of the relevant BCI Regional Coordinator in each focus regions and Programme Managers (based in the BCI Secretariat). It is also envisaged that the BCI will set up a National Stakeholder Council which will be able to support with sharing of information, best practices, farm assessment processes etc, at a national level.

 

BCI intends to provide to implementing partners with a number of tools:
- A Step by Step Guide for implementation
- Farm Assessment Guidelines
- Workshop on different topics related to the Better Cotton System
- Information sharing on best practices
- Supply chain facilitation
- Global Partnerships to support the growth of Better Cotton worldwide



last update: 05 Feb. 10