The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) is a Geneva-based nonprofit funded by major chocolate makers that focuses on addressing child labour in cocoa production in West Africa.[1] ICI works with communities, farmers, unions, the cocoa and chocolate industry, civil society and national governments in cocoa-producing countries to improve the lives of children involved in cocoa production.[2] The secretariat of the International Cocoa Initiative is in Geneva, Switzerland. The organisation has two national offices in Abidjan and Accra.
The International Cocoa Initiative was established in 2002 to address part of Article 5 (establishment of a joint foundation) of the Harkin-Engel Protocol, an international agreement aimed at ending the worst forms of child labour and forced labour in the production of cocoa.[3]
ICI operates in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana since 2007.[4] On the community level, ICI carries out awareness raising activities on child labour and child rights and works in the areas of education, health, water and sanitation and rural livelihoods.[3] ICI promotes due diligence in cocoa supply chains by embedding child labour monitoring and remediation systems,[5] training farmers and supply chain actors, and by engaging with certification schemes and sustainability standards.[6] On the national level, ICI provides training on child protection and child labour to different parties (e.g. chocolate companies, cocoa traders and processors, cocoa suppliers, farming cooperatives, national authorities, extension services and local NGOs) in order to strengthen their understanding and capacity to prevent and tackle child labour. On the international level, ICI collects evidence (data, information, case studies) for the development of actions and policies[7] ensuring a sustainable cocoa production and improving the lives of children involved in it.[4]
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^ abDepartment of Labor, United States. "Oversight of Public and Private Initiatives to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana" (PDF). US Department of Labor. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 10, 2016. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
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to address child labor practices in the cocoa industry. The InternationalCocoaInitiative involving major cocoa manufacturers established the Child Labor...
production and export of the cocoa beans used in the manufacture of chocolate, as of 2012[update], supplying 38% of cocoa produced in the world. West Africa...
Ghana is the second-largest exporter of cocoa beans in the world, after Ivory Coast. Ghana's cocoa cultivation, however, is noted within the developing...
(PDF). InternationalCocoaInitiative. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2008. "Annual Report 2011". InternationalCocoaInitiative. 2012...
chocolate Cocoa Processing Company Limited – Ghanaian cocoa processing company – a Ghanaian cocoa processing company InternationalCocoaInitiative – Nonprofit...
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is Peter McAllister, formerly the Executive director of the InternationalCocoaInitiative. McAllister took over the role from Dan Rees in 2010. The ETI...
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for the elimination of the worst forms of child labor" (PDF). InternationalCocoaInitiative. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 24, 2008. Retrieved...
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University in London. He served on the board of directors of the InternationalCocoaInitiative, and currently serves on the board of the Freedom Fund.[citation...
commodities. The main products promoted under the Fairtrade label are coffee, cocoa, banana, flowers, tea, and sugar. Fairtrade is an association of three Producer...
system for sustainable cocoa. Solidaridad and Oxfam Novib also supported the initiative from the beginning. In 2009 the first UTZ cocoa products reached the...
commitment to ensuring the sustainability of the cocoa industry and is in agreement with the Cocoa & Forests Initiative to stop deforestation and forest degradation...
for the elimination of the worst forms of child labor" (PDF). InternationalCocoaInitiative. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2008. Retrieved...
Trustee, Free the Slaves, Antislavery International, Freedom Fund, Walk Free and InternationalCocoaInitiative. For services to the global antislavery...
the United Kingdom and Bangladesh), most notably for handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, wine, sugar, fruit, flowers and gold. Fair trade labelling organizations...
labor management systems. In addition, Hershey is a member of the World Cocoa Foundation. It is also associated with the Hersheypark Stadium and the Giant...
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