The International Cocoa Initiative promotes child protection in cocoa-growing communities. We work to ensure a better future for children and their families.
Addressing Forced Labour in cocoa: what needs to be done?
A new report on the drivers of forced labour in the cocoa sector of Côte d'Ivoire has identified the most at-risk groups and highlighted ways in which governments, the private sector and civil society can all prevent labour abuses, as well as identify and assist victims. According to the report, migrant workers who have recently gone into debt to secure their recruitment are th...
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PALEC: Learning through joy and play
The "Projet d'Amelioration de la Lecture-Ecriture et du Calcul" (PALEC) was created by the National Education Authorities to improve the quality of primary education in schools in Côte d'Ivoire, with the support of partners like the Jacobs Foundation, Cargill and the International Cocoa Initiative.
Initially developed in India by TIDE Learning, PALEC was adapted to Ivorian r...
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"My children can focus on their education thanks to my second source of income", says Yaw
Yaw at the tiger nut farm his group has been supported to cultivate
Yaw Amoah is a cocoa farmer in Ayokoa, a cocoa-growing community in Ghana. He lives with his wife and four children who are aged from four to sixteen years. They all make their livelihood from a two and half acre cocoa farm, which is about 6 miles away from their home.
According to Yaw, ‘’It is sometimes...
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Bowaly's new education centre: "The child's place is in school and not on cocoa plantations"
Kouassi Yao Meza is 10 years old and attends Bowaly Public Primary School (Epp) in Central West Côte d'Ivoire. He's in fifth grade and happy to have a new school. A school that he does not hesitate to show to his cousins who come to visit him in Bowaly, and he promises to work well in class, to later "help parents who are farmers and produce cocoa". He smilingly confides to us...
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Quality education and drinking water: key for ensuring children have better chances in future
Quality education is a viable alternative and remedy to child labour. ICI's ECLIC project makes sure the children from 50 cocoa-growing communities have access to schooling. Funded by the United States Department of Labor (USDoL), ECLIC recently constructed schools equipped with solar panels providing access to electricity and drinking water, to the communities of Jeannotkro, G...
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Where we are working
Click the green symbols to visit the ICI core programme communities, and the yellow symbols to visit the ECLIC communities.
Cocoa News
METROPOLITAINE- Tribune exclusive de la Première Dame de Côte d’Ivoire Dominique Nouvian Ouattara. Afin de mettre un terme au travail des enfants dans l’industrie du cacao en Côte d’Ivoire, de nombreuses initiatives associant gouvernements, ONG, industriels et instituts de recherche sont entreprises. Read More
AIP – La Côte d’Ivoire et le Ghana, à travers le Conseil du café-cacao et Ghana Cocoa Board, dirigés respectivement par Koné Brahima Yves et Joseph Boahen-Aidoo, ont décidé de mettre en œuvre plusieurs mesures pour améliorer l’économie cacaoyère dont l’institution d’un prix plancher du cacao qui sera déterminé à fin janvier 2019, et l’élaboration d’une norme commune pour la durabilité du cacao. Read More
Fratmat.info- Les équipes du Conseil du café-cacao et du Ghana Cocoa board étaient en réunion du 14 au 15 décembre, à Abidjan, pour élaborer des stratégies communes pour une cacaoculture durable. Read More
CONFECTIONERY PRODUCTION - During the past couple of years, there has been a notable trend for businesses across the confectionery sector becoming increasingly mindful of sustainability issues. Read More
FINANCIAL AFRIK-Le Belge Michel Arrion, ex ambassadeur de l’Union européenne, est le nouveau directeur exécutif de l’ICCO, l’organisation internationale du cacao, en remplacement de l’Ivoirien Jean Marc Anga. Le nouveau directeur a été « nommé par consensus à la fin de la réunion de septembre du Conseil international du cacao, l’organe directeur de l’organisation » pour un mandat de 5 ans, indique le communiqué de l’ICCO ce 1er octobre. Read More
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
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