FTAANZ
| The Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand (FTAANZ) Inc is an incorporated, not-for-profit, member based body for all individuals and organisations interested in and supportive of fair trade. Through its members, and a small secretariat, the FTAANZ seeks to increase awareness of fair trade; help facilitate and coordinate fair trade activities; assist producers from developing countries, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, to access Australian and New Zealand markets; and establish a regional organisation to manage Fairtrade certification and labelling. You can read more about the FTAANZ in related pages here, including its vision, mission and objectives, the people involved, its history, opportunities for volunteering or working with the FTAANZ, and its partners and supporters. You can contact us here. To download a short introduction to FTAANZ, click here. |
Vision & Mission
Mission Statement, Vision and Objectives
Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand Inc
Mission Statement of the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand (FTAANZ) Incorporated
The FTAANZ seeks to bring together all interested parties in Australia and New Zealand to foster and promote a common understanding of Fair Trade: ensuring a better deal for producers and workers marginalized and disadvantaged through current international trade practices and rules.
FTAANZ works with and supports the FINE definition of fair trade which is:
“Fair Trade is an alternative approach to conventional international trade. It is a trading partnership which aims at sustainable development for excluded and disadvantaged producers. It seeks to do this by providing better trading conditions, by awareness raising and by campaigning”.
Our Vision
The Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand seeks to achieve the following;
Become the peak body on fair trade in Australia and New Zealand;
Represent a wide range of stakeholders from various sectors including NGOs, traders and consumer groups;
Be skilled in public relations and other marketing activities through drawing on its staff and members’ skills;
Be a link between traders and other interested parties to producers of fair trade goods in the Asia Pacific region;
Coordinate efforts to raise awareness and promote fair trade to the extent that fair trade alternatives are widely available and understood by consumers;
Be transparent and accountable as well as value the input of all its members
Our Objectives
1. Promote the concept of fair trade and increase awareness of its importance within Australian and New Zealand communities
- To create a common understanding of fair trade within the fair trade movement in Australia and New Zealand;
- To coordinate and/or conduct research on impacts of fair trade on poverty alleviation with producer partners;
- To coordinate and/or conduct research on production, trade and consumption both within Australia and New Zealand and between developing countries and Australia/New Zealand in order to identify new market opportunities; and
- To disseminate information through media and educational programs about fair trade and its impacts/benefits.
2. Coordination of fair trade activities within Australia and New Zealand
To bring together and build a committed membership of all fair trade stakeholders;
To support the needs of FTAANZ members in promoting the concept and practice of fair trade through coordination of information and education campaigns;
To support trade members in accessing information about fair trade producers and products and in providing direct links with producers;
To ensure that consumers obtain the widest range of choice in fair trade products; and
To facilitate cooperation between FTAANZ members so that they may be able to advantage of economies of scale in trade operations.
3. Support developing country disadvantaged producers, particularly in the Asian-Pacific region, to access New Zealand and Australian markets under fair trade conditions
To assist disadvantaged producers in the Asia Pacific region to participate in fair trade networks, either through linkages between producers and buyers certified by FLO or through IFAT partnerships; and
To facilitate the development of projects and programs with producer partners aimed at providing them with the skills and tools needed to improve their own situation through economic development and fair trade.
4. To facilitate the introduction of a fair trade certification and labelling system that will provide a useful tool for Australian and New Zealand companies and consumers to identify and purchase fair trade products
Image: Christof Krackhardt / www.fairtrade-media.de
Business Plan
To download our business plan summary 2005 - 2008, click here.
People
FTAANZ Executive Committee
FTAANZ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2005/06
(As elected at the AGM in August 2005)
Natasha Lewis (Chairperson) - Natasha Lewis is one of the founding members of the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand, and currently sits on the committee as secretary of the Association. Her passion for fair trade has helped to drive the Association as it takes the lead in pushing the fair trade agenda in Australia and New Zealand. As a regular speaker she is determinedly pushing education and understanding regarding the principles and benefits of Fair Trade. Originally educated as a Naturopath, Natasha quickly developed her interest in advancing sustainability both though industry and trade. This is being realized through both her organic food and products wholesale business, Organic Trader which recently launched the premium organic Fairtrade chocolate brand Cocolo, as well as her association with fair trade. Natasha is available for public speaking on fair trade at conferences, schools, universities, etc.
Barry Coates (Vice Chairperson) - is Executive Director of Oxfam New Zealand, an affiliate of Oxfam International. Oxfam NZ links practical grassroots projects, mainly focused on the Pacific, with international campaigns, such as Make Trade Fair, to address the causes of poverty and injustice. Barry was formerly Director of the World Development Movement (WDM), an international advocacy network based in the UK. He played a leading role in campaigning on issues of global justice: debt, international trade and investment and arms trade, and was a Board member of the Fairtrade Foundation, the Ethical Trading Initiative, and active in ethical investment and Corporate Social Responsibility. At World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in the early 1990s, Barry developed a programme on sustainable development, and participated in the Earth Summit in Rio as a member of the British government delegation. Barry has an undergraduate degree in economics and a Masters from Yale University.
Brett Inder (Treasurer) - Brett Inder is an Associate Professor in Business and Economics at Monash University. His research interests include various areas of Development Economics. He is also involved with People For Fair Trade, a group of volunteers committed to spereading the message of Fair Trade and to selling Fair Trade tea and coffee.
Nicole Philp (Secretary) - Nicole has been a passionate advocate of Fairtrade since 1999 and was a member of the founding FTAANZ Executive Committee. Nicole owns and manages Universal Village, a fair trading business involved in importing, distribution and marketing Fair Trade products.
Nicole has 15 years experience in business management and marketing and is very enthusiastic about helping FTAANZ get the Fairtrade message out there and into the hearts and minds of the general public. Nicole is the Secretary of FTAANZ and Co-ordinator of the Marketing Group. She also has experience working with development projects as an Administrator and Board Member of an aid & development NGO with project partners in India.
Jacqueline Grace - is a recent Graduate of Melbourne Unversity where she co-founded a student Fair Trade movement named Hooked. Since then Jacqui and her husband Tim have been assisting other campuses across Australia to establish Fair Trade campaigns. She is also involved in Fairtrade advocacy in various Faith based communities in the Victorian region. They also currently working on establishing interships with Fairtrade cooperatives in the Asia Pacific region and one day hopes to assist with the establishment of Fairtrade cocoa farms in Indonesia.
Nigel Walsh - Nigel has worked in the advertising, design and marketing industry in Australia for over 28 years. The last 7 years have been as Marketing Manager of Oxfam Australia Trading Pty Ltd (Oxfam Shops, Oxfam Shop Mail Order). Nigel and Oxfam Australia Trading (a fair trade organisation) are passionate supporters of fair trade. OAT trades with over 35 countries worldwide contributing to a sustainable income for marginalised artisans and their communities. The Oxfam shops and Oxfam mail order shop sells wide range of fair trade handcrafts and fairtrade commodities.
Nigel will use every opportunity to promote the concept, and benefits, of fair trade to the Australian public.
Caroline Thomas - Caroline is committed to promoting Fair Trade in Australia & New Zealand, having seen the success of the business sector in Europe. She is an independent marketing consultant bringing over 15 years of experience in Australia and overseas.
Caroline has been an active & long-term supporter of the Fair Trade campaign, providing pro-bono marketing to Oxfam Australia, the Make Poverty History campaign and other charities. She is committed to marketing the Fair Trade benefits across all the different stakeholders in our region.
Eileen Davenport - Eileen is currently working as a freelance social researcher on fair trade and development issues and has published articles on fair and ethical trade. She is a member of the Registration Committee of IFAT, the sister international fair trade organisation to FLO and has been involved in fair trade and ethical trade issues for a number of years. She has an academic background in social sciences and has worked in the academic, NGO and government sectors. For the last nine years she has been living in New Zealand and during that time has been the Research Director for Council for International Development in New Zealand and more recently has been working freelance on NGO capacity building in the Pacific and social impact assessment.
FTAANZ Staff
Stephen Knapp (FTAANZ & FLANZ Director), Auckland, New Zealand – Steve is the Executive Director of the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand (FTAANZ) and of Fairtrade Labelling Australia and New Zealand (FLANZ). He is based in Auckland and is the director of activities across both countries. He graduated from the London School of Economics in Industrial and Business Economics in 1991 and is completing a Masters in Development Studies. He was the Managing Director of a commercial trading company for 10 years and then the Executive Director of a regeneration company supporting social and community enterprise development in the UK. He has also held several voluntary directorships of community based organisations. Contact Steve on steve@fairtrade.org.nz.
Neil Bowker (FTAANZ Executive Officer, Australia), Melbourne, Australia – Neil spent ten years as a Public Servant in Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide before taking three years off to travel through Asia and the UK. In 2001, he returned to Australia to set up Adelaide Fair Trade, a not-for-profit organisaton aimed at making Fair Trade products more accessible to consumers in Adelaide. As manager of AFT he imported crafts mostly from IFAT members, and developed networks to distribute Fair Trade crafts and tea / coffee / chocolate in Adelaide, as well as managing the volunteer-run Fair Trade shop. Neil joined FTAANZ as the Executive Officer for Australia and is particularly interested in strengthening Fair Trade networks and developing procurement programs. Contact Neil on neil@fairtrade.com.au.
Audrey Jacometti (Licensing & Labelling Officer), Melbourne, Australia – Audrey moved to Melbourne from France after completing a Bachelor of International Administration, Politics and Languages at the University of Grenoble. Audrey has developed administrative, research, communication and project reporting skills and experiences in her previous employment and internship positions from the University of Melbourne, a peace-oriented NGO in Spain and the NGO Bureau of the United Nations in Geneva. An avid photographer, Audrey actively participates in the Association's efforts to raise awareness of Fair Trade among the Australian and New Zealand public. Contact Audrey on admin@fta.org.au.
Pravin Sawmy (Networks Officer), Auckland, New Zealand - Pravin moved to Auckland in 2005 after working for fair trade organisations in Italy. With a background in education and commerce, Pravin has always had a great interest in fair trade due to his family connections with sugar farming in Mauritius. He now works to build and develop fair trade networks within New Zealand. Contact Pravin on pravin@fairtrade.org.nz.
Rachel Morrison (Marketing & Communications Manager), Auckland, New Zealand - Rachel moved to New Zealand from the UK in 2006 and is based in Auckland. After studying for a BA (Hons) Politics and an MSc Marketing, Rachel worked in various marketing roles for large multinational companies for seven years. A family move to New Zealand has allowed Rachel to follow her personal convictions and take a part-time role with FTAANZ, and now works three days a week. Contact Rachel on rachel@fairtrade.org.nz.
Jessica Morthorpe (Certification Assistant), Melbourne, Australia. Jessica is studying Science and Commerce at the Australian National University. Her majors are Zoology, Human Ecology and Marketing. Jessica’s professional background is in environmental change management. Contact Jessica on jessica@fairtrade.com.au.
Cameron Neil (Certification & Labelling Manager), Melbourne, Australia. Cameron has worked for fair trade in Australia since December 2003 and now leads the certification and labelling activities of Fairtrade Labelling ANZ. For more see here. Contact Cameron on audit@fairtrade.com.au.
History
How long has the organisation been operating?
The FTAANZ was founded as an incorporated not-for-profit association in the ACT as of 2 June 2003. Activities and initiatives under the banner of the FTAANZ have been carried on since this date. Products bearing the Fairtrade Certification label began to be sold in Australia and New Zealand as of October 2003.
Why was the FTAANZ formed?
The Association was formed to bring together the increasing number of fair trade related activities and actors in Australia and New Zealand to increase effectiveness and impact through economies of scale, collaboration, and information sharing.
The FTAANZ has 3 clear client groups that it exists for. The first is its members. The FTAANZ is a membership-based body and it has a responsibility to provide services to individual and organisational members within the framework of its vision and objectives (see the Vision & Mission section). The second group of clients are those organisations and businesses in Australia and New Zealand who are participating in the Fairtrade system (i.e. the use of the Fairtrade Certification label on products). The FTAANZ provides services to this client group to support the effective use of the label, in accordance with international standards, and to educate consumers. The third and most important client group are those for whom the whole concept of fair trade exists – disadvantaged producers in developing countries. The underpinning purpose of FTAANZ activities is to facilitate and promote trade and consumption in Australia and New Zealand that directly supports sustainable development and a ‘fair go’ for those producers in developing countries being marginalised and adversely effected by current global trading arrangements.
What has FTAANZ achieved to date?
Products, launches, research, licensees
Four Fairtrade products in the Australian and New Zealand markets – Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Cocoa – representing over 20 different producer groups
As at 4 April 2005 there are 45 ANZ Fairtrade licensed wholesalers – 3 Tea, 2 Chocolate, 42 Coffee (two tea licensees to both tea and coffee)
Sales (mostly wholesale value) to 31 December 2004 in excess of AUD1.24 million, with coffee sales accounting for almost AUD1 million of this
FTAANZ is developing with interested members a rationale paper for Fairtrade Standards and Trade of coconut oil, aiming to have it submitted by mid 2005
Marketing & Campaigns
Focusing on supermarkets, procurement market and universities in 2005
Working with Oxfam CAA and Oxfam NZ very closely – both with active campaigns to focus on fair trade, especially Fairtrade coffee
Fairtrade Fortnight to be held in Australia and New Zealand from 7 to 21 May 2005
2005 Easter campaign around Fairtrade chocolate
Formation of student network
Organisational Development
Activities
One of our activities in 2004 and 2005 was to create an education resource kit for use with young people aged 10 - 13 years. Check out the kit in our Resources section or click here.
Check out the Projects section for information on other activities.
Stay tuned for more details on current FTAANZ activities and on what we have been doing over the last two years.
Annual Report
Contact
Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand Inc
For Australia: ABN 83 962 988 499
(Note that FTAANZ Inc provides the Secretariat for Fairtrade Labelling Australia & New Zealand)
Contacts
New Zealand
E-mail: info@fairtrade.org.nz
Phone: +64 9 920 4950
Fax: +64 9 920 4951
Director: Stephen Knapp
Networks Coordinator: Pravin Sawmy
Marketing & Communications: Rachel Morrison
Asia Pacific Project Manager: Maria Jose Trogolo
Australia
E-mail: aust@fairtrade.com.au
Phone: +61 3 9662 2919
Fax: +61 3 9663 3482
Executive Officer: Neil Bowker
Fairtrade Labelling Officer: Audrey Jacometti
FTAANZ Inc Executive Committee
Chairperson - Natasha Lewis natasha@fta.org.au
Secretary - secretary@fta.org.au
Mailing addresses:
FTAANZ Inc (Australia)
PO Box 306
Flinders Lane PO VIC 8009
Australia
FTAANZ Inc (New Zealand)
PO Box 33 1587
Takapuna Auckland 0740
New Zealand
Jobs & Volunteering
FTAANZ is always on the look out for volunteers to assist in the various activities of the network and its membership. From time to time we may also have paid opportunities, although these are rare.
Check back regularly to see what is on offer, e-mail us to register your interest in assisting our work, or - better still - join FTAANZ so that you receive notification of new opportunities regularly!
Current Job Opportunities with FTAANZ:
Current Job Opportunities with Fairtrade Labelling Australia & New Zealand
Current Volunteer Opportunities with FTAANZ:
Other Job Opportunities:
Current available positions with one of our members, Oxfam Australia, are detailed at the end of the navigation box to the right, or you can go to their website http://www.oxfam.org.au/. They are currently seeking to fill a number of national and international positions.
Volunteer Positions Available
Volunteer Positions Available
A number of projects are currently being developed by FTAANZ which will require input from volunteers. For more information, please watch this space or send an email outlining your interests and skills to aust@fta.org.au
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Researcher - Intern, Auckland NZ
Based in Auckland, NZ - This position provides opportunities for students to gain practical experience in an interdisciplinary and international working environment and to promote a greater understanding of the problems, challenges and opportunities that farmers in Asia-Pacific face. Download the job description to find out more. Closing Date 17th July 2007.
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Join
FTAANZ Inc is the peak body for fair trade in Australia and New Zealand. You can get involved in FTAANZ as a member with full voting rights, as an associate with member benefits except voting rights, or you can join our mailing list for occasional news and events mailouts.
Become a member
Through joining the FTAANZ you will meet other individuals and organisations involved in fair trade in Australia and New Zealand. You can benefit from the coordination of fair trade campaigns and from the research conducted and compiled in order to develop useful educational and promotional materials. The FTAANZ is responsive to its members in helping them to access and promote fair trade products in Australia and New Zealand.
You also get a range of benefits, including access to members only areas and information on this website, access to member discussion forums and online community features, invitations to member only workshops and events, member newsletters, and other benefits as offered from time to time.
Also, in joining FTAANZ, you get an active voice in the development and future direction of fair trade activities in Australia, New Zealand and the region, through the Annual General Meeting, general meetings with members, and opportunities to serve on the Executive Committee and various working groups and sub-committees.
There are several categories of membership for organisations, with varying investments asked of you to become a member and support fair trade depending on your status and capacity to pay.
Download the membership form - which provides details on categories of membership - complete it, and return it to the address specified.
Apply to become a member (Australia) (92KB doc)
Apply to become a member (New Zealand) (30KB doc)
Become an associate
An alternative to becoming a member for businesses and other organisations which wish to be less involved but still have access to the newsletter and other information about fair trade is to become an associate.
This is also a great way for individuals to become involved and be part of the full mailing lists and receive most of the other benefits of being a member, except without voting rights.
Apply to become an associate (Australia) (85KB doc)
Apply to become an associate (New Zealand) (86KB doc)
Sign up to the email list
The third alternative is to sign up to our email list. This is free, and while you don't get the newsletter or other benefits members or associates receive, you will receive occasional emails with news and events. To sign up to our email list, please send an email to:
Australia: aust@fairtrade.com.au with your email address and postcode (so we can link you up to local events);
NZ: info@fairtrade.org.nz with your email address and city.
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