The goal of NO CAP is to eliminate exploitative practices, such as caporalato, in the agricultural sector. By implementing a fair and transparent economic model, the organisation ensures compliance with national labour laws, promotes ethical consumer choices, and fosters social responsibility throughout the supply chain. As far as TCNs are concerned, it promotes the fair and sustainable employments of migrants in the sector.

• Migrant workers gain access to fair wages, legal employment, and safe working conditions.
• Producers receive assistance in implementing ethical practices and finding distributors.
• Consumers benefit from ethically produced goods with guaranteed compliance to labour and environmental standards.
• Local communities experience socio-economic improvements through dignified housing, healthcare, and reduced exploitation.

The organisation operates through a comprehensive framework, with the aim of assisting both migrant workers and the employers:

• Fair labour practices: NO CAP makes sure that workers are employed with formal contracts offering 6.5-hour workdays, daily gross wages of approximately €70, free transportation, and safe accommodation when required. The organisation liases with job centres for labour selection and recruitment.
• Producer assistance: NO CAP supports certain companies in setting fair sale prices and accessing new market channels. In addition, producers adopting ethical practices are awarded the “NoCap Ethical Seal,” signaling adherence to sustainable and fair practices.
• Field monitoring: NO CAP carries out constant monitoring and informal inspections to ensure compliance with workplace safety laws, including proper facilities for breaks and protective gear.
• Administrative assistance: NO CAP support migrants with document renewals, obtaining residence permits, opening bank accounts, and accessing linguistic support. It also offers workers safe transport with suitable vehicles and constant maintenance and sanitisation of them.
• Consumer awareness: NO CAP promotes campaigns to educate consumers about labour exploitation and encourage ethical purchasing. Through partnerships with Aspiag-Despar and Megamark, the organisation integrates consumer outreach by featuring flyers on its initiatives and ethical labour practices alongside its products in retail stores.
• Housing solutions and integration: NO CAP collaborates with local organisations to secure dignified housing, enabling workers to transition out of informal settlements. Moreover, it partners with employment centres and local organisations to connect workers with legal job opportunities and improve community integration. It collaborates with Caritas, for example, plus the Waldensian Church, private organisations operating in the social sphere, and second reception centres (SIPROIMI). In the Capitanata region, as mentioned earlier, some of the workers hired through NO CAP are housed at Casa Sankara; others at the Don Bosco Village of the Emmaus Association (an organisation that deals with the recovery and social reintegration of people in difficulty such as minors and people with psychosocial problems and/or drug addiction). In particular, one of the houses made available by the organisation is home to 5 female workers who are part of NO CAP project ‘Anti-trafficking Women’, created through the collaboration of various third sector organisations operating in the Foggia area and dealing with the reception and integration of immigrants, victims of violence and trafficking, and the homeless.
• The "app against caporalato". NO CAP also created an app designed to offer a fast and simple tool made available to all those who suffer illegal treatment in direct violation of labour legislation and regula-
  tions on remuneration, working hours, health and safety, and protection of workers. The application is be available in 5 languages (English, French, Italian, Romanian and Bulgarian) in order to facilitate its use. It helps to denounce the emergence of criminal networks, and to report companies who recruit through agencies of dubious reputation, operating at national and international level.

Overall, the aim of NO CAP is to address the many challenges faced both by workers and by employers in the agrifood chain, and to promote a multi-action intervention that focuses on migrant worker integration as well as on consumer awareness. 

NO CAP has successfully created a replicable model of social responsibility within the agricultural sector, recognised by its certification programme and fair pricing system. 

Its initiatives have involved more than 250 migrants over the years and contributed to improving their labour conditions, enhancing worker safety, legal compliance, and access to resources. 

Moreover, products with the NO CAP ethical certification are now sold through one of the main Italian supermarket chains, Coop, as well as in other networks, and contributed to increasing awareness among consumers of ethical food production.

The positive results of NO CAP have been evalutated by many actors, such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and those in academia (see, for instance, Carusillo, 2020; Borrelli and Olinto, 2022).

There is also a Deutsche Welle (DW) documentary on NO CAP and the experiences of its founder, Ivan Sagnet.

NO CAP operates primarily through donations and relies on crowdfunding for specific projects. This financial independence allows the organisation to maintain its commitment to ethical practices and support a diverse range of initiatives across Italy and beyond.