News from ICI
- Improving the quality of education creates a protective environment and helps children learn9 June 2022All children have the right to quality education. Between 2019 and 2021, the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), in partnership with the Ministry of Education of Cote d’Ivoire, implemented a pilot project in eight cocoa-growing communities in Côte d’Ivoire to improve teaching, learning and school facilities for primary school children. This research confirms the importance of investing, not just in access to schools but also in the quality of the education provided, in terms of infrastructure, teaching methods, and the creation of a protective environment for children, underlining theRead more
- ICI and its members scale up coverage of systems that prevent and address child labour in Pledge for Action8 June 2022The International Labour Organisation and Alliance 8.7 declared 2021 the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, challenging stakeholders at all levels as well as individuals to shiftRead more
- Tackling child labour and forced labour in Ghanaian cocoa and gold mining17 May 2022In some regions in the southern and middle belt of Ghana, cocoa farming and gold mining occur in the same communities. This means that efforts to tackle child labour and forced labour need to beRead more
- Daloa and Soubré: Cargill equips 8 cocoa farming communities with quality school infrastructure12 May 2022Eight schools making a total of thirty-six classrooms built by Cargill and its partners Mars Wrigley and Hershey, and implemented by ICI, were officially opened from March 16 to 24, supportingRead more
- 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
- 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
- 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