The International Cocoa Initiative promotes child protection in cocoa-growing communities. We work to ensure a better future for children and their families.
IGA: ECLIC PROJECT PROVIDES EQUIPMENT TO WOMEN AND YOUTH GROUP
"It wasn’t easy for me because there were a lot of obstacles... We, the women, received a tricycle this morning and the youth received a freezer with a generator to start selling frozen fish. I'm so happy. This tricycle will allow us to earn money”. This is how Madam Zadi Valérie, a mother at-risk living in the Ayaou-kouakoukro community in Soubré, and a member of the Child Pro...
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Risk of forced labour in cocoa present in both Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire: 2018 Global Slavery Index
The Walk Free Foundation, an Australian organisation dedicated to ending contemporary slavery and human trafficking, issued the 2018 version of their "Global Slavery Index" on 19 July 2018. The index provides a country by country ranking of the number of people in modern slavery, as well as an analysis of the actions governments are taking to respond, and the factors that make...
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Lack of Education is at the Root of Youth Issues in Cocoa Growing Communities
In many places around the world, youth are presented with an array of exciting and valuable opportunities as they transition from childhood to adulthood. They might begin post-secondary education, start working their first job or volunteer in their communities. This is not the case for young people in cocoa growing communities in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire where a lack of educatio...
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ICI surpasses mid-term child protection goal and sets a pathway to greater impact
The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), launching its 2017 Annual Report today, has reached 188,000 children with child protection measures half-way through its 6-year strategy. With the original aim of reaching 200,000 children by the end of 2020, the operational impact of ICI’s work from 2015 to 2017 has therefore been far greater than anticipated. However many more vulner...
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Children and youth in Côte d’Ivoire at the center of our efforts: The Jacobs Foundation joins the International Cocoa In...
Maria Sawodogo (far right), 16 years old, receives vocational training through the TRECC programme and hopes to become an independent hairdresser.
The Jacobs Foundation, a charitable foundation which invests in the future of young people, has joined the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) as a Non-Profit Contributing Partner. The objective of the partnership is to promote i...
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Cocoa News
Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD has urged cocoa buying company’s managers to ensure that farmers are protected whiling ending instances of cheating being reported in the media. Read More
COCOBOD will be paying a lower interest rate on the syndicated loan for next year's cocoa season as compared to the interest rate being paid for this year's. Read More
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is spear-heading the Government initiative to cut down diseased and moribund cocoa trees which has begun in Sefwi Wiawso in the Western Region. Over 11 million disease infested cocoa trees will go down in the country-wide exercise. The affected cocoa farmers will earn GHC 552.00 per hectare of their cocoa farm as compensation package. Read More
Ghana and La Cote d’Ivoire have taken a major step to tackle the spread of the Swollen Shoot Viral Diseases (CSSVD), on cocoa farms. this was done with the joint launch of a control programme in the two countries at Pillar 34, a border town in the Bia West District in Ghana. Read More
Ghanaian farmers have been cautioned against converting agro chemical bottles, particularly empty weedicide containers, for use as either drinking bottles or for domestic purposes. Read More
Ivory Coast’s Cocoa Espresso Council (CCC) has determined to public sale all of its cocoa manufacturing to exporters prematurely in an effort to set assured value all through the season for producers, CCC sources stated on Wednesday. Read More
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Cocoa Board, Hon. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has tasked employees of cocoa processing and buying companies to lead the campaign for the consumption of cocoa locally. Read More
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Cocoa Board, Joseph Boahen Aidoo has cautioned purchasing clerks of Licenced Buying Companies (LBCs) against criminally adjusting their weighing scales as a means of enriching themselves at the expense of the poor farmers. Read More
Agronomists and farmers in Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, told Reuters that plantations needed regular sunshine and occasional rains in the coming weeks to help tree roots to breathe and allow small pods to mature. Read More
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is rolling out interventions to reverse the depletion of cocoa farms across the country. Read More
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