News from ICI
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Daloa and Soubré: Cargill equips 8 cocoa farming communities with quality school infrastructure12 May 2022Eight schools making a total of thirty-six c lassrooms built by Cargill and its partners Mars Wrigley and Hershey, and implemented by ICI, were officially opened from March 16 to 24, supporting children in cocoa-growing communities to access quality education and removing many of the challenges the children were experiencing on a day-to-day basis. "When I received my transfer here and came to do the handover, I was not happy,” explained Séri Bruno, Principal of the Brou N'Guessankro public elementary school in Okrouyo, Soubré, in Côte d'Ivoire. “The School Director was holding his meetings inRead more
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HYBRID EVENT: Public and private sector collaboration: Integrated approaches to prevent and address child labour9 May 2022The 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour will be held from 15 - 20 May in Durban, South Africa. The conference, organized by the International Labour Organization and Alliance 8.7Read more
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Agro-commodity trading company ETG joins ICI3 May 2022The Netherlands-based company Export Trading Group (ETG), a trader and processor of agricultural commodities, has joined ICI in its efforts to better tackle child labour and forced labour in its cocoaRead more
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Gender equality and child well-being in cocoa-growing communities25 April 2022Listening, asking questions, and discussing sensitive topics in a safe environment is what regularly brings together members of the Assemanou community, 37km from Abengourou in Côte d’Ivoire. Over theRead more
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ONLINE EVENT - EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive applied to the cocoa sector31 March 2022April 13th, 4pm – 5:30pm CET On 23 February, the European Commission, published a proposal for a Directive on human rights and environmental due diligence. The Directive has been designed to improveRead more
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Can cash transfers reduce child labour in cocoa-growing communities?16 February 2022A cash transfer programme in Ghana has reduced child labour in cocoa-growing households and helped them to cope during difficult times, according to recent research from the International CocoaRead more
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Bridging classes in Guémon: ICI, TRECC and Nestlé support access to education in cocoa-growing communities24 January 2022Tobly Bangolo1 is a cocoa farming community located 15 km from Duékoué. At the start of the 2021-2022 school year, a group of students who had graduated from bridging classes (classes organized toRead more