SI Rainforest Alliance

As indicated in the 2020 Sustainable Agriculture Standard: farm requirements, requirement 3.3.1, farm certificate holders must fill in the Sustainability Investment Plan Template.

Tea farm certificate holders must fill in this form and not the Excel template Annex S16, in line with the Policy on the Use of Annex S16 for the Tea Sector.

In this form you must record the investments you needed to make to attain or maintain compliance with the RA2020 certification standard. You must fill in the form before the harvest for seasonal crops, or before your audit for continuous crops. It is best to fill it in after doing your internal inspections and self-assessment.

Before you start, have these documents at hand, if applicable:

Management plan (including the results of your Management Capacity Assessment and Risk Assessment)
Audit reports from previous years
Internal inspections and self-assessments

INSTRUCTIONS

Record in this form the investments you needed to make to comply with the 2020 Sustainable Agriculture Standard: Farm Requirements. Investments include any goods or services purchased to comply with the standard. Examples: purchase of seedlings for tree planting to increase tree cover, construction of additional toilets for workers, costs for hiring internal trainers, costs for the audit, protective equipments, etc..
Complete all the fields in the form. At the bottom of the form, you can see the calculated results in grey cells.
Existing certificate holders: record investments made in the past year of your certification. Prospective certificate holders: record investments made in the year before your first certification audit.
Make sure you include the cost of each investment in the same currency selected at the beginning of the form. If investments were made in other currencies, you will need to convert these to your selected currency.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Please only include monetary (i.e., not in-kind) investments.
Only include activities that require an additional economic investment by the farm Certificate Holder to comply with any of the requirements of the Rainforest Alliance 2020 Standard. Normal operating costs for activities that are not related to certification (e.g., costs of conventional agricultural production, transport of the crop from a farm to a processing plant etc.) should NOT be included in the Sustainability Investments plan.
Only include investments that were made with the farm certificate holder’s own resources. Any investments made with financial or in-kind donations received from third parties (e.g., from government, non-governmental organizations, partners, or projects) to implement standard activities should NOT be included.

What is your email address? (So, we can reach you in case of any questions, please use the same as registered in RACP)*

example@example.com

Country*

Currency (The currency selected here is to be used throughout the form. Either use your own currency or US Dollars)*

Certificate Holder name*

(Please use the same name you are registered with in the Rainforest Alliance Certification Platform (RACP)

Rainforest Alliance Certificate Holder ID *

(Example: RA_00123456789, You can find your RA ID in your account information in the RACP or on your certificate.)

License code*

(Example: RALI23-123456. You can find this ID under your ‘Certification overview’ tab in RACP.)

Investments made for Chapter 1. Management

Rows	Amount in your selected currency
1.1, 1.2 Management & Administration
1.3 Risk Assessment and Management Plan
1.4 Internal Inspection and Self-Assessment
1.5, 1.6 Grievance Mechanism & Gender Equality
Training carried out on two or more topics of the RA standard
Costs of the RA audit (includes logistics costs for the auditor).

Investments made for Chapter 2. Traceability

Rows	Amount in your selected currency
2.1 Traceability
2.2 Traceability in the Online Platform
2.3 Mass Balance
Training on only traceability topics

Investments made for Chapter 3. Income and shared responsibility

Rows	Amount in your selected currency
3.1 Production Costs and Living Income
3.2 Sustainability Differential
3.3 Sustainability Investments
Training on only Income and shared responsibility topics

Investment made for Chapter 4. Farming

Rows	Amount in your selected currency
4.1, 4.2, 4.4 Productivity
4.5, 4.6 Good IPM and agrochemical management practices
4.7 Harvest and post harvest practices
Training on only farming topics

Investments made for Chapter 5. Social

Rows	Amount in your selected currency
5.1 Assess-and-Address Child-labor, Forced-labor, discrimination, workplace violence and Harrassment
5.2 Freedom of association
5.3-5.7 Wages and worker conditions
5.8 Communities
Training on only social topics

Investments made for Chapter 6. Environment.

Rows	Amount in your selected currency
6.1 -6.5 Forest, wildlife and natural resource protection
6.5 - 6.7 Water, wastewater and waste management
6.8 and 6.9 Energy efficiency and Greenhouse gas reduction
Training on only environment topics

Rainforest Alliance certified made tea PRODUCED (in KG of Made tea)

Enter the number in Kilogram

Rainforest Alliance certified made tea SOLD (in KG of Made tea)

Enter the number in Kilogram

Monetary Sustainability Investments received in total from all buyers. If you did not receive any SI, put zero. This does not result in a non-conformity.

Applicable to the period of the year in which the entire authorized certified volume granted by the Rainforest Alliance was sold as certified.

Exchange rate from (selected currency) to USD.

You can find the exchange rate on: https://www.oanda.com/currency-converter/en Where possible, choose the exchange rate valid at the time investments were made.

You can use up to 5 decimals.

If your selected currency is already USD, please fill in 1 on this question.

One {typeA26} is = xxx USD.

e.g. 1 KES (Kenya Shilling) = 0.0071 USD

1 LKR (Sri Lanka Rupee) = 0.0031 USD

Results

Please review these results prior to submitting the plan.

Total investment made on all the chapters

Please see below which results you need to report in Rainforest Alliance Certification Platform (RACP). You will also receive these per email with a copy of your answers. Please keep this copy for your records as it will be needed for your audit.

This answer needs to go into the field 'Administrative Management' in RACP

This answer needs to go into the field 'Farming' in RACP

This answer needs to go into the field 'Social' in RACP

This answer needs to go into the field 'Environmental' in RACP

This answer needs to go into the field 'Monetary SI received in total from all buyers?' in RACP.

Please submit the form using the button below.

Rainforest Alliance Sustainability Investment Plan Template

Investments by chapters of the Rainforest Alliance Standard

Results