News from ICI
- Cocoa coalition partnership agreements paper: Press release24 June 2021We, a group of companies (Ferrero, Mars Wrigley, Mondelēz International, Nestlé, Tony’s Chocolonely, Unilever), certification organisations (Fairtrade International, Rainforest Alliance), NGOs (Fair Trade Advocacy Office, VOICE Network) and multi-stakeholder organisations (International Cocoa Initiative), call on the European Commission to pursue the establishment of bilateral agreements between the European Union and cocoa-producing countries to contribute to establishing a fully sustainable cocoa supply chain, complementing other policy frameworks such as the upcoming Sustainable CorporateRead more
- ICI's 2020 Annual Report: A Platform to Scale-up Impact1 June 2021Today, the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) launches its 2020 annual report. Last year marked the end of ICI’s 2015-2020 strategy, during which the organization’s work with its partners reached over 422,000 children in cocoa-growing communities.Read more
- Defining and strengthening Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation Systems (CLMRS) for the cocoa sector29 April 2021To support the scale-up of effective systems to prevent, monitor and remediate child labour, and respond to these calls, a new study by ICI provides a common operational definition of a CLMRS and sets out key indicators to monitor progress.Read more
- Canteens for children in Dodokoi and Achoi Biechi to encourage schooling, with the support of the Hershey Company and Barry Callebaut28 April 2021The happiness of the children we met in Dodokoi, in the Akoupé department of Cote d’Ivoire, was immediately evident. Why? They had just received a fully equipped canteen and two toilet blocks with two hand-washing devices at their school, EPP Dodokoi, as part of The Hershey Company’s Cocoa for Good programme with the support of Barry Callebaut, implemented by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI).Read more
- ICI joins the German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (GISCO)26 April 2021The International Cocoa Initiative has joined the German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (GISCO) as a supporting member, enabling it to take an active part in a number of working groups within the platform.Read more
- The children of Krotta Kouassikro receive the keys to their new school23 April 2021Classrooms built of wood and covered with a mixture of wood and straw, exposed the children to the sun, wind and rain. Classrooms without doors that the children shared, at times, with the village’sRead more
- Gabriel Adjei: How rice farming improved my family's quality of life20 April 2021Gabriel was identified as a farmer in need of support by the Nestlé Cocoa Plan’s Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS), implemented with the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI). CLMRS are embedded into company supply chains to identify, monitor, prevent and address child labour cases.Read more