GOOD PRACTICE IN IMPLEMENTING A CODE OF PRACTICE

By consensus, good practice:

• Is management led, with senior management taking responsibility for its implementation while the process remains participatory and inclusive of smallholders;
• Is adopted company-wide, or at least is applied to an entire production site (e.g. farm, pack-house);
• Encourages continual improvement in the company's social performance, and establishes a baseline against which improvement can be monitored;
• Promotes prevention rather than detection of bad practice (i.e. is proactive not reactive);
• Is used as a routine management practice.