News from ICI
- ICI promotes excellence in rural reporting in Ghana21 August 2015At the 20th edition of Ghana Journalists Association Awards, the International Cocoa Initiative has presented the award for best rural reporting with focus on elimination of child labour in Ghana. The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Awards is the most prestigious journalism award ceremony in the country. Mr. Kafui Kaney, a journalist with Ghana News Agency (GNA) won the best rural reporting with focus on elimination of child labour in Ghana. His story – Kids abandon school – was ranked top of the entries received in the category. The awards are in five categories; category one includesRead more
- Getting ready for school: Children receive more than 20,000 items of school equipment15 August 2015Children from cocoa-growing communities have received school kits for the start of the school year 2015-2016 through Nestlé's Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS). These kits were delivered to children by representatives of Nestlé and ICI in the presence of parents and officials of the cocoa cooperatives of the target areas.Read more
- Despite signs of progress, much more needs to be done to protect children in West African cocoa30 July 2015There are encouraging signs of progress in tackling child labour in cocoa growing but the problem remains vast, and more needs to be done to protect vulnerable children in cocoa-growing communitiesRead more
- Cote d’Ivoire: Compulsory education for ages 6 to 1616 July 2015Schooling for children between 6 and 16 years of age is to become compulsory in Côte d’Ivoire, as the Ivorian government declared mid-July. This new rule will be applied with the start of the newRead more
- ICI training kit gets stamp of approval by national authorities7 July 2015The government of Ghana has recently endorsed the International Cocoa Initiative’s comprehensive training and awareness raising materials aimed at the elimination of the Worst Forms of Child LabourRead more
- ICI: Putting children and their education first12 June 2015Working in 151 cocoa-growing communities over the past year, the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) reached 250,000 people in 2014, 100 000 of whom were children. As a direct result of ICI’sRead more
- New ICI logo: Welcome to our new world!11 May 2015"We have a great, fresh new logo, and we love it. Both in the process by which we decided upon it, and in its visual depictions, it sums ICI up brilliantly." Nick Weatherill, ICI's Executive DirectorRead more