News from ICI
- 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 biodiversity, strengthen and enforce the regulatory framework for natural resource exploitation, defend the rights and interests of rural communities, and promote a multi-stakeholder decision-making framework. At ICI, we know that no single actor can solve the problem of child labour on its own. Only collective action, carried out with transparency, will build a more sustainable cocoa sector in West Africa. It is thisRead 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
- ICI hosts stakeholders' validation workshop on Ghana’s Child Labour Compendium on Child Labour Indicators1 August 2025The International Cocoa Initiative, in collaboration with the Child Labour Unit under the Ministry of Labour, Jobs and Employment (MLJE), convened a national validation workshop in Accra to review andRead more
- Tackling Child Labour in Cocoa: Highlights from ICI’s Member Reporting Exercise 202424 July 2025Every year ICI and its members report on their efforts to tackle child labour in the cocoa sector. This allows us to track progress over time, highlight areas for improvement and drive transparency inRead more