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  • Gender equality and child well-being in cocoa-growing communities
    25 April 2022
    Listening, asking questions, and discussing sensitive topics in a safe environment is what regularly brings together members of the Assemanou community, 37km from Abengourou in Côte d’Ivoire. Over the last year, Nestlé and ICI, supported by the World Cocoa Foundation and USAID’s Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Initiative, have been organizing dialogue sessions for couples to explore topics related to gender equality in Assemanou and other cocoa-growing communities, within the framework of Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs). VSLAs have been used for several years to increase the
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  • Bridging classes in Guémon: ICI, TRECC and Nestlé support access to education in cocoa-growing communities
    24 January 2022
    Tobly Bangolo1 is a cocoa farming community located 15 km from Duékoué. At the start of the 2021-2022 school year, a group of students who had graduated from bridging classes (classes organized to
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  • Hydroponic farming in Ahondo - Nestlé trains 120 women
    14 October 2021
    Encouraging women’s empowerment and diversifying their income-generating activities is the motivation behind this innovative pilot project, set up by ICI and financed by Nestlé. The creation of the project, to promote the hydroponic cultivation of tomatoes, builds on the success and enthusiasm of a number of already existing women’s village savings and loans groups (VSLAs) and brings together 120 women from Ahondo (12km from Taabo) divided into groups of 30 women.
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  • ICI and the Department of Children take child labour awareness raising to Ghana's Volta region
    11 October 2021
    The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) and the Department of Children (DoC) under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, recently undertook awareness-raising on child labour and
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  • Mars Wrigley and Olam support children in Ousmanekro with new school infrastructure
    16 September 2021
    One of the most striking things when we arrive at the Sabarikro Primary School, located in Ousmanekro (Man), is the well-kept feel of the place and the attractive flowers and shrubs planted by the
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  • John's apprenticeship journey
    9 July 2021
    As part of the Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) implemented with Tony’s Chocolonely through the ABOCFA cooperative, the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) supported sixteen
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  • Canteens for children in Dodokoi and Achoi Biechi to encourage schooling, with the support of the Hershey Company and Barry Callebaut
    28 April 2021
    The happiness of the children we met in Dodokoi, in the Akoupé department of Cote d’Ivoire, was immediately evident. Why? They had just received a fully equipped canteen and two toilet blocks with two hand-washing devices at their school, EPP Dodokoi, as part of The Hershey Company’s Cocoa for Good programme with the support of Barry Callebaut, implemented by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI).
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    • Our Organisation
      • Our Values
      • Our Vision, Mission and Strategy
      • Our Structure
      • Our Team
        • Our Secretariat Team
        • Our Côte d’Ivoire Team
        • Our Ghana Team
    • Our Members
      • Why become a member?
    • Partners and donors
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      • Annual Report 2020
    • Careers at ICI
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        • Finance Manager
        • Monitoring and Evaluation Officer – Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System
        • Project Manager - Livelihood and Training Support
        • Repost: Communications Officer - Digital Content Manager
      • Consultancies
        • Constructive 360 feedback training / workshop for leadership team
      • Call for Tenders
        • Acquisition de fourniture et installation d'équipements scolaires
        • Acquisition de kits scolaires
        • Acquisition de sacs scolaires
        • INVITATION FOR TECHNICAL BID AND PRICE QUOTATION
        • Materiel Informatique
        • Plus d'informations
  • The issues
    • Child labour in cocoa
    • Forced labour in cocoa
  • Our work
    • Operational Support
      • Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation Systems
      • Community Development
    • Innovation and learning
    • Policies, practices and standards
      • Human rights due diligence in the cocoa supply chain
    • Highlighted Projects
      • Strengthening the resilience of cocoa-growing communities
      • Tackling child and forced labour in Ghanaian cocoa and gold mining
      • Responsible management of child labour risks in Côte d'Ivoire’s cocoa sector
      • Developing a toolkit to identify and address forced labour in cocoa
      • Targeted income support to reduce child labour
  • Knowledge Hub
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  • View site in English
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