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MEL CoP meeting

University of Bern Main Building

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MEL CoP meeting


đź“… Date: Monday, 13 October 2025

 🕒 Time: 13:00 – 17:15

 📍 Venue: University of Bern Main Building, Hochschulstrasse 4, Room 033 (groundfloor), 3011 Bern or via Zoom (link will be shared after the registration).

 This half-day gathering brings together MEL practitioners and other interested members to:

  •  Discuss and influence progress in the monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) of SWISSCO’s Roadmap 2030, including collaborative impact assessments.
  • Co-create ideas for potential collaborations in Living Labs 2026, i.e. co-creative, participatory experimentation, research and learning to advance and share knowledge on good practices that transform shared challenges into widely adopted and appreciated solutions for sustainable cocoa.
  • Contribute to accountability for the SWISSCO Roadmap 2030 through lively and trustful debate.


Agenda

Time

Items

13:00

Welcome Coffee

13:15

Welcome Address

13:20

Introduction

13:35

Update on the Cocoa Household Income Study

  • CHIS Study Results
  • Next steps (countries, timetable)

14:35

Introduction: Co-creating ideas for living labs 2026

14:45

Coffee Break

15:10

Living Labs 2026: Co-creating ideas and shared interests

Parallel sessions:

  1. Is the Future of Monitoring Digital? (session convenor: ETHZ)
  2. Co-designing Collaborative Impact Assessments to improve Well-being and Forest Outcomes (CDE)
  3. EUDR and Due Diligence Implementation (Uni Basel)
  4. Are RCTs suitable for SWISSCO impact evaluation? And what are good alternatives (FiBL)
  5. Adaptive MEL: Embedding Learning Loops for Greater Impact (BFH)

16:15

Plenary: sharing ideas for Living Labs 2026

  • Summary by session convenors
  • Next steps

16:30

Global adoption study of dynamic agroforestry systems in cocoa production: Ghana and Ecuador

  • Context
  • Objectives
  • Next steps

16:50

Updates from the SWISSCO office and Outlook

17:00

Apéro

We kindly invite you to sign up via the "Register" button at the top right until 30 September.