Fair Labor Association conducts an Independent External Monitoring (IEM) assessment when a company has begun implementation of its internal monitoring and remediation program. An IEM allows the assessment of labor conditions at the farm level and first-level processing if they overlap with the farms based on the FLA Agriculture Workplace Code of Conduct and Monitoring Benchmarks for the Agriculture Sector.
As part of its annual assessment for members, FLA conducted a monitoring visit of ofi’s cocoa supply chain in Nigeria in 2023.
Based on the results of FLA’s Independent External Monitoring, company affiliates must develop and implement remediation actions leading to sustainable changes.
