Innovations Fund project portfolio
Since 2016, The ISEAL Innovations Fund has awarded grants for over 100 projects across diverse geographies and sectors that strengthen the effectiveness of sustainability systems against critical sustainability challenges. Explore these projects below, and access outputs and learnings.
Incentives and rewards platform for continuous improvement of smallholder sugarcane farmers
Bonsucro aims to support smallholders on the journey to meeting traceability and sustainability standards, by providing incentives and rewards for short-term, incremental progress. Short-term impacts such as improved record-keeping, worker...
Aligned foundations for Regenerative Agriculture
NewForesight, RTRS, BCI, and their partners will support the transition to Regenerative Agriculture by taking a cross-commodity approach to streamline RegenAg definitions and principles and address the current fragmentation of...
Blended finance as a tool to unlock responsible aquaculture
Aquaculture Stewardship Council (January 2025-July 2027) are creating a blended finance mechanism to help smallholder farmers unlock investment through combining sustainability and profitability metrics, building on previous work to develop...
Shifting the balance: supplier-led human rights risk insights in botanical sourcing
UEBT will enhance their human rights due diligence tools with spatial indicators and pilot a supplier self-assessment across three regions - to make these processes more equitable, data-driven, and effective...
Credible sustainability impact claims: framework for chain of custody and assurance requirements
Bonsucro are developing a high-level chain of custody and assurance framework which could be adapted by other sustainability systems looking to offer performance impact claims (September 2025-August 2026)
Voices in Verification: Empowering communities and building engagement in aquaculture certification
Aquaculture Stewardship Council (September 2025 – August 2026) are embedding community knowledge into audits, ensuring certification is risk-based, inclusive, context-sensitive - strengthening trust and accountability between producers and local communities.
Empower & Exchange: Empowering producers of sugarcane products through data access and providing insights on responsible, efficient data exchange to meet the needs of the supply chain
Bonsucro are developing a system enabling producers and their suppliers to access and export their data, generating value, insight, and showcasing performance (September 2025 - June 2027).
A climate-focused data integrity framework
Value Change Initiative are developing a climate-focused technical guidance framework that is context-agnostic and designed for integration into diverse sustainability systems (September 2025 - October 2026).
Digital Tools Platform: Strengthening data foundations and interoperability in sustainability systems
Preferred by Nature are creating a Digital Tools Platform to provide a shared benchmark for evaluating tool capabilities, and boost tool adoption, interoperability, and trust (July 2025 - September 2026).
Prescriptive assurance
Assurance Services International are developing a new assurance model that uses prediction and prescription functionalities to notify sustainability systems of high and emerging risks (August 2025 - August 2027).
