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This technical summary is intended for stakeholders with an interest in the child labour situation in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. It provides a short summary of key findings from the NORC 2018/9 Report, and where possible, places them in context alongside the results of the two previous surveys from 2008/9 and 2013/4, conducted by Tulane University.

The Fair Labor Association has released a social impact assessment of Nestlé’s Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation Systems in Côte d'Ivoire, implemented with the International Cocoa Initiative. The report shows that CLMRS are having a positive impact on child protection and farmer livelihoods and suggests areas to strengthen their impact further.

The United States Department of Labor (USDOL) presents its annual report on the Worst Forms of Child labour. Sectors including cocoa are covered and the report puts forward over 2,000 suggested actions to support governments in 131 countries around the world take action to eliminate child labour.

La stratégie 2021-2026 de l'International Cocoa Initiative sert de feuille de route pour intensifier les actions dans le secteur du cacao. À la Fondation ICI, nous voulons voir les communautés productrices de cacao prospérer au sein d'une chaîne d'approvisionnement digne, durable et gérée de manière responsable, où les droits de l'enfant et les droits humaines sont protégés et respectés, où le travail des enfants et le travail forcé sont éliminés.

This research, led by UNICEF, examines the impact of the United Republic of Tanzania’s Productive Social Safety Net. The programme provides cash transfers, conditional to be used on health and education services, to extremely poor households.