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Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA), Mars Wrigley, Sucden and ASCOT Amsterdam and the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) are collaborating on setting up an Integrated and Supportive Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) in the CAA cocoa supply chain.
CAA acknowledges there are risks of child labour and forced labour in the cocoa supply chain, as evidenced by the recent NORC report.
CAA believes it is important to make sure that robust systems are in place to prevent, monitor and remediate the risks within its supply chain. CAA does not have the capacity currently to do this alone and therefore we are partnering with our customers, supply chain actors and ICI.
CAA partners with Mars Wrigley, Sucden, ASCOT and International Cocoa Initiative
.To protect human rights in the Cocoa supply chain
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Cocoa Abrabopa Association, Mars Wrigley, Sucden and ASCOT Amsterdam and the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) are collaborating on setting up an Integrated and Supportive Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) in the CAA cocoa supply chain.
CAA acknowledges there are risks of child labour and forced labour in the cocoa supply chain, as evidenced by the recent NORC report.
CAA believes it is important to make sure that robust systems are in place to prevent, monitor and remediate the risks within its supply chain. CAA does not have the capacity currently to do this alone and therefore we are partnering with our customers, supply chain actors and ICI.
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
• Child labour yet to abate in sub-Sahara Africa, says ILO
Specific actions aimed at eliminating child labour would be identified, implemented and sustained between 2021 and 2025 under the auspices of the National Policy and National Action Plan on the Elimination of Child Labour. Speaking at the launch of the 2021 International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour (IYECL) as part of global action to accelerate the fight against the practice, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, said the event marks the formal take-off of the Action Pledges made by Nigeria at the global launch on the 21st January 2021. The UN General Assembly had, in July 2019, declared 2021 as the ‘International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour’ and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) was mandated to take the lead in implementing it. The declaration was a call for an accelerated pace of progress at all levels in the global fight against child labour, through pr