The International Cocoa Initiative promotes child protection in cocoa-growing communities. We work to ensure a better future for children and their families.
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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"Kweku and the bird" - ICI launches animation series
Kweku is a 12-year-old boy living with his father in a cocoa-growing community in West Africa. His father is poor, he relies on his son's help on the farm and can't afford to send him to school. He has never had the opportunity to attend school himself and doesn't immediately see the merits of granting Kweku access to education. Lack of options is the reality for many...
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Solar panels allow the women of Gbokokro to learn at night
Gbokokro, a village in the southern centre of Ivory Coast, has more than a school for children. Together with TRECC, Jacobs Foundation's "Transforming Education in Cocoa Communities" program, and with the help of Nestlé, ICI offers classes for illiterate adults in the community. Most of these literacy classes consist mainly of women. During the day, however, they have to attend...
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Recognising women’s work in cocoa production, today and every day
Women’s work in cocoa production is rarely acknowledged. On this International Women’s Day, and every day through the International Cocoa Initiative’s (ICI) work in cocoa-growing communities, ICI recognises the important roles that women play in producing cocoa, building sustainable communities and promoting child protection.
Women play a number of direct roles in the cocoa...
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Cocoa News
In order to ensure every Mondelēz International worker appreciates the cocoa-to-chocolate process, a skills-exchange program has been initiated by the company to fuel employee engagement and business growth. Read More
Ghana and Ivory Coast are set to jointly decide on the volume and timing of cocoa exports by August for the 2019/20 season. Read More
ABIDJAN.NET-Yamoussoukro - Après avoir franchi la barre de deux millions de tonnes de cacao, la Côte d’Ivoire entend maintenir ce niveau de production pour aborder la problématique de la transformation et à la consommation des produits, a fait savoir mercredi, à Yamoussoukro, le directeur général de la production et de la sécurité alimentaire, Brindoumi Soumaila Read More
Ivory Coast and Ghana, who together supply about 60% of the world’s cocoa, plan to co-ordinate cocoa sales to try to exert more influence on the market. According to a Bloomberg report, the countries want to harmonise their marketing systems. Read More
According to a recent article published by Raconteur, the ICI and partners like Nestle, Tony's Chocolonely and UTZ have been identified as key towards the elimination of child labour in cocoa in West Africa. Read More
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) and Barry Callebaut AG, one of the leading cocoa processing companies in the world have signed an agreement to commit to a project that will ensure sustainable cocoa farming in Ghana. Read More
Stakeholders in the child protection sector in Ghana have called for a concerted and integrated approach to achieve targets 8.7 and 8.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which seeks to end all forms of child labour by 2025. Read More
The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) has reached 188,000 children with child protection measures half-way through its six-year strategy which is targeting to reach 200,000 children by end of 2020. Read More
Ghana’s Cocobod is currently seeking a way out of an inadvertent fix. This has been created by its long-standing policy of selling the country’s cocoa exports on the forward, rather than the spot market. Read More
GNANANEWSONLINE.COM- As part of activities to scale up efforts in the fight against child labour, Ghana has launched the Phase II National Plan of Action (NPA II) for the elimination of child labour. Read More
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