News from ICI
- Cocoa coalition partnership agreements paper: Press release24 June 2021We, a group of companies (Ferrero, Mars Wrigley, Mondelēz International, Nestlé, Tony’s Chocolonely, Unilever), certification organisations (Fairtrade International, Rainforest Alliance), NGOs (Fair Trade Advocacy Office, VOICE Network) and multi-stakeholder organisations (International Cocoa Initiative), call on the European Commission to pursue the establishment of bilateral agreements between the European Union and cocoa-producing countries to contribute to establishing a fully sustainable cocoa supply chain, complementing other policy frameworks such as the upcoming Sustainable CorporateRead more
- ICI's 2020 Annual Report: A Platform to Scale-up Impact1 June 2021Today, the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) launches its 2020 annual report. Last year marked the end of ICI’s 2015-2020 strategy, during which the organization’s work with its partners reached over 422,000 children in cocoa-growing communities.Read more
- Defining and strengthening Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation Systems (CLMRS) for the cocoa sector29 April 2021To support the scale-up of effective systems to prevent, monitor and remediate child labour, and respond to these calls, a new study by ICI provides a common operational definition of a CLMRS and sets out key indicators to monitor progress.Read more
- ICI joins the German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (GISCO)26 April 2021The International Cocoa Initiative has joined the German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (GISCO) as a supporting member, enabling it to take an active part in a number of working groups within the platform.Read more
- Cocoa supplier QTI joins the international cocoa initiative8 April 2021Quang Thien Imex (QTI) a supplier of agricultural products specializing in cocoa, coffee and cashew nuts, has joined the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) as a contributing partner, as part of its efforts to tackle child labour in the cocoa supply chain.Read more
- ICI and its members pledge to scale up child protection systems in 202130 March 2021To mark the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) and its members are pledging to scale up systems that prevent and address child labour, as part of corporate human rights due diligence efforts, to cover 540,000 cocoa-growing households in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana by the end of 2021.Read more
- Ecom and the International Cocoa Initiative provide the children of Méagui with two schools to build a better future15 March 2021On 4 March, the International Cocoa Initiative, Ecom and the ECACOM and CAPO farming cooperatives jointly inaugurated two schools in cocoa-producing communities in Côte d’Ivoire. One is located in Quartier Soleil, 77 km from Soubré and 33 km from Méagui, while the other is in Sérigbangan (84 km from Méagui).Read more