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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.

Developing a toolkit to identify and address forced labour in cocoa

In 2019, ICI launched a pilot project to better understand forced labour in the cocoa supply chain and how to address it. This pilot project led to

Strengthening the resilience of cocoa-growing communities

This project aims to improve the resilience of cocoa-farming families and communities against potential future shocks. The Covid-19 pandemic had

Tackling child and forced labour in Ghanaian cocoa and gold mining

With funding from the Norwegian Government through the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, ICI, Solidaridad and the Rainforest Alliance are

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

Amadou Diakité Laye

Programmes Assistant

Eugénie Guéné Ziniépou

Technical Agent

Parfait Yao Kouadio

Technical Agent

Parfait Houra Koffi

Programmes Assistant

ICI joins the Dutch and Belgian initiatives for sustainable cocoa to support further coordination in the fight against child labour

ICI has joined both the Dutch Sustainable Cocoa Initiative (DISCO) and the Belgian Sustainable Cocoa Partnership (Beyond Chocolate) with the aim of supporting further alignment and coordination within