International Cocoa Initiative

Established in 2002, the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) is a unique partnership between civil society and the chocolate industry, working together in a collective effort to tackle the problem of child and forced adult labour in cocoa production. ICI works together with the authorities in cocoa-growing countries, with national and international technical agencies, and with the cocoa-growing communities themselves to bring about a social change in the cocoa sector. ICI places community empowerment and the establishment of child protection systems at the heart of its efforts to tackle child labour in cocoa.