News from ICI
- Agnes gives back to her community through her role in the Literacy and Numeracy Programme11 December 2020Agnes Dede lives in Abease, a cocoa-growing community in Ghana. As a facilitator for literacy and numeracy classes in her community, she has graduated 12 adult learners from her course. Many of her students have never been to school or have limited education.Read more
- Five benefits community service groups can bring to farming communities7 December 2020One way to support cocoa farming communities and tackle child labour is by training and equipping community service groups. These groups can assist farmers and entire communities, while alsoRead more
- ICI partners with CLU and GJA to mainstream child labour and forced labour issues into the ongoing national discource23 November 2020The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) has partnered with the Child Labour Unit (CLU), under the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations , and the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) toRead more
- Five ways village savings and loans associations can benefit cocoa communities30 October 2020Empowering members of cocoa-growing communities can play an important role in tackling child labour. When farmers, particularly women, have the power to make decisions and sustain their householdsRead more
- ICI develops model to predict child labour risk at the household level27 October 2020According to the most recent estimates from the NORC Report on child labour in cocoa there are 1.56 million children in child labour in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. This underlines the need to scale upRead more
- Pokua's story: How pepper farming led to new income opportunities and increased child protection17 October 2020In 2017, a group of women from Pakyi, a cocoa-growing community in Ghana, were supported by the International Cocoa Initiative’s Community Development Programme to start pepper farms to raise additional income and support the protection of their children.Read more
- A better life for Birago under the ICI Apprenticeship programme9 October 2020In 2017, older children from cocoa-growing communities were supported by the International Cocoa Initiative through apprenticeships as part of its Community Development Programme . These teenagersRead more