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Clccg Annual Report CLCCG ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Table of Contents ACRONYMS ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ii STATEMENT OF PROGRESS ________________________________________________________________________________ 1 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF CÔTE D’IVOIRE _____________________________ 7 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF GHANA ___________________________________ 18 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT ON USDOL-FUNDED COCOA COMMUNITIES PROJECT ________________ 24 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT ON USDOL-FUNDED CHILD LABOR SURVEY IN THE COCOA SECTOR __ 37 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT ON INDUSTRY-FUNDED PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP ______________ 41 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT FROM MONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL (KRAFT FOODS) __________________ 59 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT FROM THE HERSHEY COMPANY ________________________________________ 68 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT FROM NESTLE S.A. ______________________________________________________ 76 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT FROM BARRY CALLEBAUT ______________________________________________ 87 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT FROM FERRERO TRADING LUX S.A. ____________________________________ 97 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT FOR MARS, INCORPORATED ___________________________________________ 106 DECLARATION __________________________________________________________________________________________ 120 FRAMEWORK ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 121 BY-LAWS ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 128 i ACRONYMS ANADER National Extension Service for Rural Development CAP Community Action Plan CCP Towards Child Labor Free Cocoa Growing Communities in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana through an Integrated Area Based Approach, also called the Cocoa Communities Project CCPC Community Child Protection Committee CGECI General Confederation of Businesses of Côte d’Ivoire CIM Interministerial Committee to Combat Trafficking, Exploitation and Child Labor CLCCG Child Labor Cocoa Coordinating Group CLMS Child Labor Monitoring System CNS National Committee to Combat Trafficking, Exploitation and Child Labor COCOBOD Ghana Cocoa Board CRIG Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana DBMR Direct Beneficiary Monitoring System DCPC District Child Protection Committee Declaration Declaration of Joint Action to Support Implementation of the Harkin- Engel Protocol ECOWAS I Eliminating the Worst Forms of Child Labor in West Africa and Strengthening Sub-Regional Cooperation through ECOWAS, Phase I ECOWAS II Eliminating the Worst Forms of Child Labor in West Africa and Strengthening Sub-Regional Cooperation through ECOWAS, Phase II ENSEA National Higher School of Applied Statistics and Economics Framework Framework of Action to Support the Implementation of the Harkin- Engel Protocol GAP Good Agricultural Practices GCLMS Ghana Child Labor Monitoring System GIG Global Issues Group Harkin-Engel Protocol Protocol for the Growing and Processing of Cocoa Beans and their Derivative Products ICI International Cocoa Initiative ILAB Bureau of International Labor Affairs ILO-IPEC International Labor Organization, International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor Industry International Chocolate and Cocoa Industry MOU Memorandum of Understanding NGO Non-Governmental Organization NPA National Plan of Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor NPECLC Ghana’s National Programme for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Cocoa NSC National Steering Committee PPP Combatting Child Labour in Cocoa Growing Communities in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, a public-private partnership between ILO-IPEC and Industry SMC School Management Committee SOSTECI Côte d’Ivoire’s Child Labor Monitoring System Tulane Tulane University’s Payson Center for International Development USDOL U.S. Department of Labor WCF World Cocoa Foundation WFCL Worst Forms of Child Labor ii REVIEW OF 2012-2013 STATEMENT OF PROGRESS This report provides an update on actions being taken to reduce the worst forms of child labor (WFCL) in cocoa growing areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, in keeping with commitments under the Declaration of Joint Action to Support Implementation of the Harkin- Engel Protocol (Declaration) and its accompanying Framework of Action to Support the Implementation of the Harkin-Engel Protocol The results of this study are (Framework). Since September 2010, the parties to the Declaration—the particularly timely as we enter Government of Côte d’Ivoire, the Government of Ghana, the United our fourth year of working States Department of Labor (USDOL), U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, U.S. together under the Framework Representative Eliot Engel, and the International Chocolate and Cocoa of Action to Support the Industry (Industry)—have worked together, with the goal of reducing Implementation of the Harkin- the WFCL in the cocoa sectors of the two countries by 70 percent in the Engel Protocol to eradicate the aggregate by 2020. As stated in the Framework, this objective is to be worst forms of child labor in the achieved through joint efforts in the following areas: cocoa sector. This framework is doing what it was intended to do—the projects involved are Provision of education and vocational training services to submitting data, the children as a means to remove children from, or prevent them from Governments of Ghana and entering, the WFCL; Côte d’Ivoire are implementing Application of protective measures to remove workplace their respective child labor hazards from cocoa farming to allow children of legal working age to monitoring systems, and Tulane work under safe conditions; University is conducting another Promotion of livelihood services for the households of children sector-wide survey. Once we have a better understanding of working in the cocoa sector; how many children are being Establishment and implementation of a sector-wide child labor reached by these projects, we monitoring system (CLMS); and will know how many are Conducting of nationally representative child labor surveys at receiving an education. We will least every 5 years. also have a grasp on the existing gaps. This data will provide a This report highlights work being undertaken in the field of data roadmap to reach and honor the collection to implement nationally-representative child labor surveys in commitment we made under cocoa growing areas and to increase the coverage of the CLMS, and in the Framework. – Senator Tom Harkin the area of education through the provision of education services in each country. Data Collection One of the key actions called for by the Framework is the intermittent and recurring collection of data on the extent of the WFCL in the cocoa sectors of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Such data are critical for allowing interested parties to track progress toward achievement of the Framework’s goals. This data collection is also intended to serve as an important tool for decision makers, aiding them in strategically prioritizing areas of need for future action. 1 REVIEW OF 2012-2013 Nationally-Representative Child Labor Surveys in the Cocoa Sector The data collection called for under the Framework is being met, in part, through the implementation of nationally representative child labor surveys covering the cocoa growing areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana during the winter harvest seasons of 2013/2014 and 2018/2019. According to the Framework, the 2008/2009 child labor survey, carried out by Tulane University’s Payson Center for International Development (Tulane), will serve as the baseline against which data from these next two surveys will be measured. These surveys are intended to provide comparable data and a means of measuring change in the prevalence of children working in the WFCL over time. In order to assess this change, the parties to the Declaration agreed in 2013 to use data on hazardous work as a proxy indicator for the number of children working in the WFCL. In 2012, USDOL awarded a cooperative agreement to Tulane to support data collection efforts in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Between November 2013 and January 2014, Tulane conducted a nationally representative child labor survey covering the cocoa growing areas in the two countries. Since then Tulane has been Progress has been made over engaged in analysis of the data from that the last year. Since the signing survey. Tulane will make publicly available of Framework of Action and the beginnings of the Harkin- findings and raw data from this survey, Engel Protocol, we have come along with the survey methodologies, by a long way – but so much October 2014. more remains to be done. As both Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire CLMS work to implement fully functioning child labor One of the strategies called for in the monitoring systems and Framework for combating the WFCL is the increased access to establishment and implementation of a education, I couldn’t be more community-based CLMS in cocoa growing fully committed to this process and ensuring its areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The success. We must always CLMS is intended to be linked to the remember that the work we provision of remediation services for do is ultimately for the children engaged in the WFCL. The CLMS is benefit of these children, and also a key component in the National Plan that our job is not done until of Action for the Elimination of the Worst they are no longer Forms of Child Labor (NPA) in both working under forced labor countries. conditions, but on their way to brighter futures. – What is CLMS? Congressman
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