International Cocoa Initiative launches new strategy to scale-up child monitoring impact By Anthony Myers The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) has launched a new strategy to take it up to 2026 with the aim of scaling up action across the entire cocoa supply chain in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, and building on lessons learned and progress made over the past five years to reach all children at risk by 2025.
In its 2020 annual report, released this month, and marking the end of its 2015-2020 strategy, the organisation reveals that its work with its partners reached over 422,000 children in cocoa-growing communities
We have seen that interventions are working and we have seen real change for children and their families on the ground Nick Weatherill, ICI’s Executive Director
Gabriel Adjei: How rice farming improved my family’s quality of life
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“I was poor because I was concentrating on only cocoa as an income source, with this rice farm, I now have an option,” said Gabriel Adjei, a cocoa farmer in the Nkranfo Nkwanta community in the Ashanti region of Ghana. “I can now confidently say providing for the school needs of my children will no longer be a challenge to me as I have every intention of continuing with the rice farm alongside the cocoa.”
Gabriel was identified as a farmer in need of support by the Nestlé Cocoa Plan’s Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS), implemented with the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI). CLMRS are embedded into company supply chains to identify, monitor, prevent and address child labour cases. Gabriel was engaging his children in child labour because of his inability to hire adult labourers. In 2018, Gabriel, together with others in his community, received rice seeds, agrochem
ICI doubles down on efforts to eliminate child labour from cocoa in ‘pivotal’ year By Anthony Myers The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) and its members are pledging to scale up efforts in the fight against child labour, covering 540,000 cocoa-growing households in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana by the end of this year.
With 2021 designated the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, the ICI said is presents an important opportunity to raise awareness of the challenge, and double down on efforts to tackle it.
In order to recognize the International Year, the Alliance 8.7 (the global partnership for eradication of forced labour) and the International Labour Organisation are calling on all stakeholders to make a Pledge for Action that will be achieved by the end of 2021, with the aim of ending child labour by 2025.
Olam cocoa hits targets for 100% child labour and deforestation monitoring By Anthony Myers Olam Food Ingredients (OFI) claimed its cocoa division has achieved 100% child labour and deforestation monitoring in its direct global supply chain, covering almost 183,000 households and 12,000 suppliers, respectively.
A leading supplier of cocoa beans and cocoa ingredients, the company said both achievements are part of Cocoa Compass, OFI’s in-house sustainability initiative.
In its first impact report published today, the company confirmed that along with its 100% direct supply chain traceability target reached last year, it has hit its remaining 2020 milestones in collaboration with customers and partners, and shares progress towards its 2024 and 2030 goals, which include targets on living incomes, child labour and natural capital.
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