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 PROVIDE EQUIPMENTS TO WOMEN AND YOUNG GROUP
"It wasn’t easy for me because there was lot of obstacles... We, women, we received this morning a tricycle and the youth received a freezer with a generator to start selling frozen fishes. I'm so happy. Doing leasing of this tricycle will allow us getting money”. This is how Madam Zadi Valérie, a vulnerable mother living in Ayaou-kouakoukro community in Soubré, member of the C...
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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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Where we are working
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Cocoa News
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
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is to pump 600 million dollars into the cocoa sector industry to resuscitate the sector in the country, Mr Joseph BoahenAidoo, the Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, announced. Read More
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has unveiled plans to introduce use of organic fertilizer on cocoa farms in another strategy to increase yields and cocoa production in the country. Read More
The governments of Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire are close to securing a $1.2 billion loan from the African Development Bank to undertake programmes and interventions that will make the cocoa industry attractive to the youth. Read More
A US$1.3 billion trade finance facility between Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) and a consortium of banks and financial institutions for the purchase of cocoa for the 2018/2019 crop season has been approved by the parliament. Read More
ABIDJAN.NET- Adzopé - La première Dame de Côte d’Ivoire, Dominique Ouattara a visité, jeudi, une plantation école à Adzopé, à la faveur de la 8ème réunion annuelle du groupe de coordination des actions de lutte contre le travail des enfants dans la cacao-culture. Read More
ABIDJAN-NET-D'importantes résolutions ont été prises le mercredi 17 Juillet 2018 à l'issue de la 8ème réunion annuelle du Groupe de Coordination des actions de lutte contre le travail des enfants dans la cacao culture (CLCCG). Au niveau des recommandations au nombre de 14 au total, il a été préconisé la consolidation et le renforcement des acquis déjà enregistrés. Il a été également conseillé la vulgarisation des bonnes pratiques agricoles à l'échelle nationale. Read More
Alhaji Abdul Fataa Adamu, the Managing Director of Cocoa Merchants Ghana Limited, one of the Licensed Cocoa Buying Companies in Ghana, has called on cocoa farmers in Ghana to continue to deliver quality cocoa beans as a means to boosting industry productivity and economic improvement. Read More
ABIDJAN.NET-8e réunion du (CLCCG) à Abidjan-Dominique Ouattara : « Eliminer le travail des enfants de la chaine de production du cacao dans nos pays, n’est ni un slogan, ni une simple déclaration de principe ». A l’invitation de Dominique Ouattara, première dame de Côte d’Ivoire et présidente du Comité National de lutte contre la Traite, l’Exploitation et le Travail des Enfants (CNS), se tient du 17 au 19 juillet 2018 à Abidjan, la 8ème réunion annuelle du groupe de coordination des actions de lutte contre le travail des enfants dans la cacaoculture (CLCCG), en présence d’une forte délégation américaine conduite par Madame Martha NEWTON, Sous-secrétaire adjointe aux affaires internationales et d’une autre venue du Ghana conduite par l’Honorable Ignatius Baffour AWUAH, Ministre de l’Emploi et du Travail du Ghana. Read More
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