News from ICI
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A look into the Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS)17 July 2018As part of ICI’s six year strategic plan from 2015 to 2020, with the overarching goal of improving the lives of children and reducing child labour in cocoa-growing communities, ICI desires to facilitate responsible supply chain management. This we hope to achieve by ensuring enhanced certification, training of supply chain actors, and children’s rights and business principles among others. ICI’s engagement along the cocoa supply-chain is done through the setting-up and management of Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation Systems (CLMRS). As a structure embedded in the supply chain ofRead more
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Apprenticeships for youth: "I want to be a productive adult in the future"15 July 2018One of the challenges of programmes designed to tackle child labour is covering children from fifteen years to seventeen years. These children, because they are at the age to be legally employed areRead more
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Lack of education is at the root of youth issues in cocoa-growing communities15 July 2018In many places around the world, youth are presented with an array of exciting and valuable opportunities as they transition from childhood to adulthood. They might begin post-secondary educationRead more
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ICI and partners participate in ‘Cocoa, an unsavoury sweet?’ Workshop9 July 2018ICI participated in a workshop that was organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) in March. This was a one-day workshop namedRead more
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Working with ABOCFA to eliminate child labour6 July 2018Isaac Vifa,ICI Field Associate and Steven Ashia, ABOCFA Manager Tackling child labour in cocoa is a joint effort. The social dynamics involved push for the adaption of a multi-stakeholder approach toRead more
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Impact of winning the children's forum trophy on our school27 June 2018Preparation towards the forum A small community with a population of 845 people, Mpaem was not counted among the communities who could win the trophy for the AU Day of the African Child in AsikasuRead more
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ICI and the Ministry of Employment and Labour relations partner to promote child protection in Ghana26 June 2018A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed between the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) and the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations (MELR) in Ghana. The signing of this MOU, showsRead more