News from ICI
- Cote d’Ivoire: Compulsory education for ages 6 to 1616 July 2015Schooling for children between 6 and 16 years of age is to become compulsory in Côte d’Ivoire, as the Ivorian government declared mid-July. This new rule will be applied with the start of the new school year in September 2015. In order to put it into practice, the project will be supported by an important investment out of public funds. 5,000 teachers need to be recruited – especially for the primary school level – and 4,500 classrooms are to be constructed. The government also plans a campaign that aims to sensitize families about the benefits of education and to convince them to send theirRead more
- ICI training kit gets stamp of approval by national authorities7 July 2015The government of Ghana has recently endorsed the International Cocoa Initiative’s comprehensive training and awareness raising materials aimed at the elimination of the Worst Forms of Child LabourRead more
- ICI: Putting children and their education first12 June 2015Working in 151 cocoa-growing communities over the past year, the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) reached 250,000 people in 2014, 100 000 of whom were children. As a direct result of ICI’sRead more
- New ICI logo: Welcome to our new world!11 May 2015"We have a great, fresh new logo, and we love it. Both in the process by which we decided upon it, and in its visual depictions, it sums ICI up brilliantly." Nick Weatherill, ICI's Executive DirectorRead more
- ICI in the cocoa barometer 20159 March 2015The 2015 Cocoa Barometer, launched on March 6th by the VOICE consortium of European Civil Society Organisations advocating for a sustainable cocoa economy, is a welcome and well-researched review ofRead more
- A supply chain 100% free of child labour should be the goal of every business: ICI19 January 2015The International Cocoa Initiative took part in a recent live chat of The Guardian about the role of businesses on tackling child labour. The panel of experts included representatives from AntiRead more
- ICI joins the UN Global Compact30 October 2014The International Cocoa Initiative became part of the UN Global Compact, the largest corporate responsibility initiative with nearly 12,000 business and non-business participants in 140 countries. ByRead more