News from ICI
- How gender equality and financial inclusion shape the impacts of cash transfers5 November 2025An unconditional cash transfer combined with gender equality and financial inclusion interventions has strengthened livelihoods, reduced child labour, and promoted gender equality in cocoa-growing communities in Ghana. Cash transfers are a widely used poverty reduction intervention. They are also one of the most promising ways to address child labour globally, according to the International Labour Organisation. In recent years, they have gained attention in agricultural supply chains, including cocoa, with an increasing number of private companies implementing these programmes to address childRead more
- Improving impact: New CLMRS Core Criteria and Manual3 November 2025Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation Systems are one of the most widely used approaches to tackle child labour in the cocoa sector. To guide the effective set-up and implementation of CLMRS, and toRead more
- The Ivorian civil society organisation IDEF joins the ICI Board30 October 2025Founded in 2014, the Initiative pour le Développement communautaire et la conservation de la forêt (IDEF) is a non-profit Ivorian civil society organisation. It works to preserve biodiversityRead more
- Building Brighter Futures: New Cohort of Children Enrolled in Apprenticeship Programme.8 October 2025Last month, ICI in partnership with Cargill enrolled 163 older children in apprenticeship programmes with the goal of providing practical skill training to 15- to 17-year-olds in cocoa-growingRead more
- The communities of Baoubly and N'Grakon are delighted to celebrate their new schools8 October 2025" What a feeling of relief and pride we feel today with this new school generously donated by ICI and its partners! Our children will no longer have to sit on the floor to copy their lessons. That isRead more
- Reading Competition in Abengourou: Top students rewarded by ICI and its partners5 September 2025The second edition of a reading competition, launched by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) in targeted cocoa-growing communities, lived up to expectations in Abengourou. It is 9:30am on aRead more
- Signed employment contracts between employers and workers: A source of vitality for human rights committees in ICI cocoa communities6 August 2025" With the formalisation of employment contracts between cocoa producers and workers initiated by ICI, it is now a real relief for everyone." These are the words of Pierre Koudougou, who has been aRead more