Nestlé–ILO coffee pact

Nestlé and the International Labour Organization announced a new two‑year project titled “From fair recruitment to worker protection in coffee supply chains,” targeting Brazil, Colombia and Mexico and formally launched Mar 31, 2026. (nestle.com) The initiative places fair recruitment and protection of seasonal and migrant workers at its center, with the ILO explicitly tasked to facilitate social dialogue among governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations to identify drivers of decent‑work deficits. (esg-investing.com) Nestlé frames the project as an extension of its Nescafé Plan and long‑standing ILO collaboration, with Antje Shaw (Head of Sustainability for Coffee, Nestlé) and ILO officials describing a dual approach of country‑level interventions plus global knowledge sharing. (esg-investing.com) Nestlé’s existing Forced Labour & Responsible Recruitment action plan commits to strengthening supplier capacity through its Supplier Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) Assurance Framework, an instrument the company says will be used to report progress on indicators. (nestle.com) Nestlé already conducts annual supply‑chain mapping for 14 key ingredients, including coffee, aiming to map to the first aggregator or primary processor — a baseline that enables measurable KPIs such as percentage coverage of farms or intermediaries under HREDD assurance. (nestle.com) The ILO–Nestlé plan will collect origin‑level insights in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to inform broader policy and corporate practice, creating levers FP&A can quantify (e.g., share of direct coffee spend covered by HREDD, number of documented social‑dialogue outcomes per country, and count of suppliers brought into assurance). (esg-investing.com)