The ICI process sensitises cocoa-growing communities about abusive labour practices and helps them plan for themselves how best to ensure that these practices are ended.

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At the end of 2011:

Dialogue and sensitization

• ICI has active programmes in 293 cocoa growing communities, 133 in Côte d’Ivoire and 160 in Ghana, reaching a total population of 689’000.
• ICI has conducted child-labour awareness-building for more than 282,000 people on child labour in cocoa

Access to quality education

• ICI has supported the construction or rehabilitation of a total of 497 classrooms to accommodate 24,850 schoolchildren.
• 361 trained teachers in total have been placed, ensuring better access to quality education for more than 18’050 children.
• ICI, with external support, has provided 2,783 tables and benches to pupils in Côte d’Ivoire. This project has directly benefited more than 5,500 primary school pupils in cocoa growing districts.

Strengthening a protective environment for children

• 1’348 local initiatives have been initiated to reduce vulnerability of children (communities’ bye laws, provision of education material, placement of teachers in remote areas; improved access to health care). Initiatives are implemented in the CAP’s framework, by communities themselves or by local authorities.
• 55 bye laws have been implemented in Ghanaian communities to better protect children from hazardous activities

Awareness raising

• In Ghana, ICI supported local-language broadcast of radio programmes on the subject of child-labour, in close collaboration with the Ghana Cocoa Board, which reached a combined audience of 16 million.