ILAB in Ghana
Child Labor in the Production of Cocoa
Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, together, produce the majority of the world's cocoa, supplying over 58% of the world's cocoa each year. Research funded by the U.S. Department of Labor shows that over 1.75 million children worked on cocoa farms in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana in 2008-2009.
Projects
| Title | Amount | Grantee | Start Sort ascending | End |
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Global Accelerator Lab Project: Intensifying Action Against Forced Labor and Child LaborILAB’s Global Accelerator Lab project will support broader and more effective action under Alliance 8.7, a global partnership to assist United Nations (UN) member States to end child labor, forced labor, human trafficking and modern slavery by 2030. |
$10,000,000 | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/01/2021 | 10/15/2025 |
MATE MASIE – Making Advances to Eliminate Child Labor in More Areas with Sustainable Integrated EffortsThe MATE MASIE project seeks to strengthen capacity, connections, and accountability across child labor enforcement and monitoring within cocoa cooperatives; build the capacity of cocoa cooperatives to provide support to vulnerable households and access to social protection; and pilot a farm-to-cooperative cocoa traceability system. |
$4,000,000 | Winrock International | 12/07/2020 | 12/06/2024 |
Adwuma PaThe Adwuma Pa project works to reduce the risk of child and forced labor, and other exploitative labor practices, by improving the economic participation and empowerment of women and adolescent girls within cocoa-producing communities in Ghana. |
$5,000,000 | Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) | 11/16/2018 | 11/15/2023 |
Combating Forced Labor and Labor Trafficking of Adults and Children in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire (FLIP)This project builds the capacity of the government and businesses to expand and better coordinate ongoing labor trafficking enforcement efforts in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. By putting the right tools in the hands of labor inspectors, business owners, workers, and service providers, the project will advance greater supply chain transparency and accountability.
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$4,362,897 | Verité | 12/01/2017 | 09/30/2023 |
CARING Gold Mining Project |
$5,000,000 | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/11/2015 | 03/10/2020 |
Assessing Progress in Reducing Child Labor in Cocoa-Growing Areas of Côte d'Ivoire and GhanaThe overall objective of this project is to identify the various interventions carried out since the signing of the Declaration in 2010, assess their relative effectiveness, and measure progress towards the achievement of the various goals and targets outlined in the Declaration and Framework, including the goal of a 70 percent reduction in aggregate of the worst forms of child labor in the cocoa sectors of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana by 2020. |
$3,458,861 | National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (NORC) | 12/01/2015 | 11/30/2021 |
Mobilizing Community Action and Promoting Opportunities for Youth in Ghana's Cocoa-Growing Communities (MOCA) |
$4,500,000 | Winrock International | 11/06/2015 | 11/06/2019 |
Global Action Program (GAP) on Child Labor Issues |
$15,900,000 | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 10/31/2011 | 11/30/2017 |
Towards Child Labor Free Cocoa Growing CommunitiesThis project seeks to contribute to national initiatives to combat the WFCL in cocoa producing areas in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. |
$10,000,000 | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/31/2010 | 03/31/2015 |
Eliminating the Worst Forms of Child Labor in West Africa and Strengthening Sub-regional Cooperation Through ECOWAS IIThis project seeks to contribute to regional and national initiatives to combat the worst forms of child labor (WFCL) in West Africa. |
$5,000,000 | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/31/2010 | 04/30/2014 |