• B Lab

  B Lab

  The partnership commits B Lab and Fairtrade to knowledge-sharing and collaborative efforts in the development of standards, advocacy, public campaigns and mobilisation, as well as the joint creation of special programmes and projects in pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals as the world races towards the 2030 deadline, also known as Agenda 2030.

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• Fair Trade Advocacy Office

  Fair Trade Advocacy Office

  The Fair Trade Advocacy Office operating from Brussels, has a mission is to speak out for Fair Trade and trade justice to improve the livelihoods of producers and workers who are marginalised by trade. The FTAO focuses its political advocacy work on EU policies and provide input on global EU policies.

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• Global Deal

  Global Deal

  Fairtrade is a partner of the Global Deal, a global partnership led by the Swedish Government, ILO and OECD, that aims to contribute to Goals 8, 10 and 17 of the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. Fairtrade’s work on decent work, increased productivity, gender equality and inclusive growth will help contribute to the Global Goals’ aims of advancing economic and social justice

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• Global Coalition for Social Justice

  Global Coalition for Social Justice

  Fairtrade is part of the over 100 advisors to the International Labour Organisation’s Global Coalition for Social Justice to advance SDG8, including INGOs, UN agencies, worker organisations and government bodies. Through knowledge sharing and advocacy, this initiative seeks to reduce global inequalities, alleviate poverty and meet essential needs of workers in global value chains and beyond, by promoting international labour standards and social dialogue.

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• Global Living Wage Coalition

  Global Living Wage Coalition

  Fairtrade International is a founding member of the ISEAL Global Living Wage Coalition advocating to improve wage levels in certified supply chains. The long-term goal and shared mission of the Global Living Wage Coalition is to see improvements in workers' conditions, including wage levels, in the farms, factories and supply chains participating in our respective certification systems and beyond.

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• Gold Standard

  Gold Standard

  The Fairtrade Climate Standard was developed in collaboration with Gold Standard, an internationally recognised organization with expertise in climate and development projects. The Fairtrade Climate Standard is an add-on standard to Gold Standard certification of carbon emissions reductions and sustainable development benefits.

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• Grow Ahead

  Grow Ahead

  Fairtrade is working with Grow Ahead, a leading crowd-funding platform addressing the local challenges of climate change, to deliver comprehensive climate mitigation solutions to smallholder farmers through resource mobilisation for targeted agroforestry efforts.

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• IDH – The Sustainable Trade Initiative

  IDH – The Sustainable Trade Initiative

  Fairtrade and IDH - the Sustainable Trade Initiative have signed a partnership to accelerate joint work towards enabling living wages and incomes in food supply chains.

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• Inter-American Foundation

  Inter-American Foundation

  The partnership between Fairtrade International, the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), and the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Fair Trade Small Producers and Workers (CLAC) aims to boost incomes and food security for small-scale farmers, bolster resilience, and improve natural resource management in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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• International Cocoa Initiative

  International Cocoa Initiative

  Fairtrade International joined the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) as a Non-Profit Contributing Partner. The partnership enables the two organisations to learn from each other, improve their existing operating models, and reach more children and their families in cocoa-growing communities in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The shared goal is to tackle child labour and enable child protection.

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• International Trade Centre

  International Trade Centre

  We have a strategic partnership agreement with the International Trade Centre to build the resilience of producers resilience through dynamic agroforestry, livelihood diversification and market access. It was agreed following a successful joint pilot project in Ghana supporting cocoa producers to diversify their livelihoods through yam.

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• MPS

  MPS

  Our collaboration with MPS, the Dutch certification scheme for the horticulture sector, focuses on environmental footprinting and environmental data exchange. This includes a joint project to review banned active substances and explore the possibility of combined audits in the future.

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• UNCTAD

  UNCTAD

  The Fair Trade Advocacy Office and UNCTAD joined forces to improve the living and working conditions of artisans, workers, and smallholder farmers and producers in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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• UNIDO

  UNIDO

  UNIDO and Fairtrade have committed to work together to support producers in global supply chains in key areas such as market access, impact investment, corporate sustainability, the implementation of human rights and environmental due diligence – including technical support to transition to agroecology and build climate resilience.

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• World Banana Forum

  World Banana Forum

  Fairtrade International is an active member of the World Banana Forum through representation in its steering committee, and on its working group on distribution of value, the working group on workers’ rights, and the gender equity task force.

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Funding partners of other Fairtrade organisations

• Full list

  Full list

  Australian Department of Foreign affairs and Trade (DFAT)

  Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid

  European Partnership for Responsible Minerals (EPRM)

  French Development Agency (AFD)

  Genesis Charitable Trust

  German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)

  German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

  ISEAL

  Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS)

  Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policies

  King Baudouin Foundation

  Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

  New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT)

  Open Society Foundation

  Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa

  Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)

  Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development (TRAID)

  Trias

  UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

  Veneto Region, Italy