News from ICI
- A renovated school for Songan's children1 March 2019Children living in Songan, a cocoa-growing community in eastern Côte d'Ivoire, and their families, have a good reason to be happy. They now have a renovated school, fully equipped, offering all the safe facilities for a successful education.Read more
- Growing rice, growing prosperity - Empowering the women of Yawboadi8 March 2019In 2015, ICI entered Yawboadi, a cocoa-growing community located in the Ahafo Ano South East District in Ghana with the purpose to work with the community towards eliminating child labour. The community has a population of 577 inhabitants with the majority of the women assisting their husbands on the cocoa farm. Some of them cultivate a little rice to support the family income.Read more
- Advancing multi-stakeholder efforts to combat child labour in cocoa20 February 2019On November 15th, experts met in Accra, Ghana to discuss how different stakeholders, including the national governments, representatives from the cocoa and chocolate industry, United NationsRead more
- Addressing forced labour in cocoa: What needs to be done?7 February 2019A 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 societyRead more
- PALEC: Learning through joy and play1 February 2019The “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, withRead more
- "My children can focus on their education thanks to my second source of income," says Yaw1 January 2019Yaw 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 twoRead more
- ICI holds ceremony to mark the end of the Community Development projects13 December 2018The International Cocoa Initiative, a leading independent technical authority in the field of child protection and child-centred community development in cocoa-growing communities, has held a ceremonyRead more