Do ICVB members have a conflict of interest? What is the ICVB’s position on transparency?
As stated in various documents, and during Verité’s presentation to the Child Labor Coalition in February, 2008, ICVB members were screened for conflicts of interest during the formation of the board. The ICVB could only implement conflict of interest policies once the board itself was formed, but the creation and implementation of such policies were one of the first orders of business. These policies were developed during the very first ICVB meeting in Brussels (January 2008). The board members later signed statements asserting their ability to serve on the ICVB and their lack of conflicts of interest. The ICVB documents repeatedly refer to need for transparency and robust conflict of interest policies. In one sense, each board member – including civil society representatives – has an ‘interest’ in the cocoa sector of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. However, the ICVB conflict of interest policy clearly expresses that each board member must have no “conflict of interest” that would prevent th
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