News from ICI
- The International Cocoa Initiative welcomes two new members21 September 2015Guittard Chocolate and Tony’s Chocolonely are the latest additions to ICI’s family. Both companies operate by the principle of sustainable chocolate production, which includes a fair price for the farmers and high quality for the consumer. The Guittard Chocolate Company, a family-run, 145 years old chocolate maker based in California and Tony’s Chocolonely, a boutique Dutch company aiming at raising the chocolate bar and producing “a fair and honest chocolate” have joined the International Cocoa Initiative in June and July 2015 respectively. Guided by the principle of “shared responsibility”Read more
- Côte d'Ivoire: ICI and Nestlé working to improve women's incomes24 August 2015Motivated to help women in Ivorian cocoa communities to be financially independent by improving their income, ICI and Nestlé visited areas of joint intervention in mid-August. During this fieldRead more
- 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. TheRead 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