News from ICI
- Landscape approaches to tackle child labour: challenges and promising practices29 October 2024Landscape approaches and area-based approaches aim to enhance sustainable development through systemic change, by actively involving all stakeholders in a defined geographic zone. While increasingly common to address ecological challenges like deforestation, examples of landscape approaches to address social issues like child labour in cocoa are still rare. A new report published by ICI examines their potential. The new study analyses examples of six landscape approaches in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Uganda. It describes their design, set-up and results, and identifies common challenges andRead more
- Human Rights Due Diligence in the Cocoa Sector: What is the role of retailers?10 October 2024The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), in collaboration with the European sustainable cocoa platforms * recently organised the webinar on the topic of human rights due diligence in the cocoa sectorRead more
- Learning into Action: What works to implement bridging classes effectively30 September 2024In cocoa-growing communities, not all children may have had the chance to attend school, and others may have dropped out. Bridging classes help these children (re)integrate the formal school system byRead more
- One million smallholder cocoa-farming households in West Africa covered by ICI and its members with systems to tackle child labour18 September 2024In a drive for increased transparency in the cocoa sector, ICI and its members annually report details of activities to tackle child labour in cocoa. The results from the October 2022 – September 2023Read more
- Lutte contre la traite des personnes et le travail forcé dans la région du Tonkpi : Une cinquantaine d’acteurs mise à contribution29 July 2024Une cinquantaine de participants composés de Travailleurs Sociaux et de membres des Organisations de la Société Civile (autorités coutumières et religieuses, associations, ONG, etc.) a été formée àRead more
- Solar-powered borehole installed at elementary school funded by Twinings Ovaltine22 July 2024It's the borehole's solar panel that immediately catches the eye under the blazing sun in the courtyard of the public elementary school in the canton of Guizato (Man, Cote d’Ivoire). Completed lastRead more
- Global humanitarian organisation CARE International joins ICI as a Board member27 June 2024The global humanitarian organisation, CARE , has joined the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) as a Board member. The organisation, established in the 1940s, works to save lives, defeat poverty, andRead more