News from ICI
- Growing vegetables means more income, diversified livelihoods and better protected children14 août 2018Joseph Oppong lives in Bekwai, Adankragya. He is a 60 year old cocoa farmer with 5 children. His eldest child is in the Training College and the youngest is in Junior High School form 1. Joseph is one of the cocoa farmers benefiting from the ongoing support for Income Generation Activities among the Nestlé Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) communities in Ghana. He has been trained together with 17 other beneficiaries from his community on good agronomic practices in okro and garden eggs cultivation. “I am very pleased with this opportunity to be supported for theEn savoir plus
- Activité Génératrice de Revenus : ECLIC remet du matériel aux femmes et aux jeunes pour renforcer leur autonomie financière2 août 2018A L’instar du groupement des femmes et des membres du Comité de Protection des Enfants d’Ayaou-kouakoukro, ce sont également ceux d’Akromiambla et de Kondokro (Gagnoa) et de Godillé (Divo), qui ont reçu du matériel devant leur permettre de démarrer leurs Activités Génératrices de Revenus (AGR). Des matériels reçus qui rentrent dans la dynamique de l’appui aux communautés dans la lutte contre le travail des enfants.En savoir plus
- Risque de travail forcé dans le cacao présent à la fois au ghana et en côte d’ivoire : Indice mondial de l’esclavage en 201820 juillet 2018La Walk Free Foundation, une organisation australienne vouée à mettre fin à l’esclavage contemporain et à la traite des êtres humains, a publié la version 2018 de son « Global Slavery Index » le 19En savoir plus
- A look into the Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS)17 juillet 2018As part of ICI’s six year strategic plan from 2015 to 2020, with the overarching goal of improving the lives of children and reducing child labour in cocoa-growing communities, ICI desires toEn savoir plus
- Apprenticeships for youth: "I want to be a productive adult in the future"15 juillet 2018One of the challenges of programmes designed to tackle child labour is covering children from fifteen years to seventeen years. These children, because they are at the age to be legally employed areEn savoir plus
- Lack of education is at the root of youth issues in cocoa-growing communities15 juillet 2018In many places around the world, youth are presented with an array of exciting and valuable opportunities as they transition from childhood to adulthood. They might begin post-secondary educationEn savoir plus
- ICI and partners participate in ‘Cocoa, an unsavoury sweet?’ Workshop9 juillet 2018ICI participated in a workshop that was organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) in March. This was a one-day workshop namedEn savoir plus