News from ICI
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Aframoase benefits from awareness raising on child labour27 April 2020One of the biggest challenges for teachers working in the Aframoase community, in the Ashanti region of Ghana, is the involvement of children in cocoa and rice farming activities, even during school hours. On a given day, it is a common sight to see pupils as young as ten years old being taken from the classroom by their parents to go and chase birds away from the rice farms. The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) partnered with the Department of Children under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development in the BosomeRead more
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Five ways innovation can tackle child labour21 April 2020The problems faced by the world today need out of the box thinking. Child labour is no exception. At the International Cocoa Initiative, we know the power of innovation; that’s why we’re constantlyRead more
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Farmer cooperative representative and human rights leader join ICI Board21 April 2020New experts joining the ICI Board, including the President of a cocoa farming cooperative and a representative from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, will strengthen theRead more
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How do income changes affect child labour? ICI reviews the evidence20 April 2020The International Cocoa Initiative reviewed evidence on how changes in household income impact child labour, with support from the Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa. The analysis of 50 studiesRead more
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How will the Covid-19 crisis affect children in cocoa-growing communities?17 April 2020A brief review of the effects of recent pandemics on children, April 2020 As in many parts of the world, governments in West Africa have closed schools, prohibited large gatherings, introduced curfewsRead more
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Covid-19: ICI's response to protect cocoa communities and staff27 March 2020This updates our position published March 23rd. ICI is active in over 230 cocoa-growing communities in Ghana, the Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroun. While these countries are not yet as severely impacted byRead more
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GIZ and ICI announce a new partnership to combat child labour11 March 2020The German development agency GIZ and the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) will be working together to scale up " Risk-based Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation Systems" over the next 18Read more