Resources

This practical guide is for anyone interested in creating and setting up child-friendly spaces in cocoa-growing communities. It describes how to design and set up a child-friendly space to support child protection and help tackle child labour, including practical recommendations to address common challenges.

This brief summarises practical action to implement child-friendly spaces designed to protect children and reduce child labour. It draws on a pilot project implemented in cocoa-growing communities in Côte d’Ivoire.

This brief summarises practical action to implement bridging classes in cocoa-growing communities based on a pilot project implemented in Côte d’Ivoire.

Child labour disrupts education, but there is little research on the reciprocal relationship: education disrupting child labour. In this study, authors examined the link between school quality and child cocoa agricultural work in rural Cote d’Ivoire.

This report presents the results of an ICI innovative pilot project that set up child-friendly spaces in three cocoa-growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire. By providing a safe place to play, learn and meet other children, the project aimed to promote children's rights and offer an alternative to going to the fields to work.