2012 CLCCG Annual Report
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the Child Labor Cocoa Coordinating Group 2012 Annual Report Prepared by the Offices of Senator Tom Harkin, Representative Eliot Engel, The United States Department of Labor, The Government of Cote d’Ivoire, The Ghana Ministry on Employment and Social Welfare, and the International Chocolate and Cocoa Industry March 12, 2013 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHILD LABOR COCOA COORDINATING GROUP MARCH 2013 Contents Statement on Progress Towards the Reduction in Child Labor in the Cocoa Sectors in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana under the Framework of Action to Support Implementation of the Harkin-Engel Protocol .............................................................................................................................................................. 3 Status of Efforts Made by the Governments of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana ........................................ 4 Programs under the Framework and Status of Financial Commitments .......................................... 4 Going Forward .................................................................................................................................. 8 For More Information ....................................................................................................................... 8 Appendix 1: Declaration of Joint Action to Support Implementation of the Harkin-Engel Protocol 10 Appendix 2: Framework of Action to Support the Implementation of the Harkin-Engel Protocol.... 11 Appendix 3: By-laws for Governance of the Child Labor Cocoa Coordinating Group (CLCCG) .... 19 Attachment 1 .................................................................................................................................. 26 Appendix 4: Annual Progress Reports of Programs Approved under the Framework....................... 29 Government of Côte d’Ivoire ......................................................................................................... 29 Government of Ghana .................................................................................................................... 37 U.S. Department of Labor .............................................................................................................. 41 International Chocolate and Cocoa Industry, GIG ......................................................................... 48 Mondelēz International (Kraft Foods) ............................................................................................ 54 The Hershey Company ................................................................................................................... 64 Nestlé S.A. ...................................................................................................................................... 72 Barry Callebaut AG ........................................................................................................................ 80 Ferrero Trading Lux S.A. ............................................................................................................... 86 Mars, Incorporated ......................................................................................................................... 93 International Chocolate and Cocoa Industry, GIG ....................................................................... 108 1 ACRONYMS 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 CLCCG Child Labor Cocoa Coordinating Group CLMS Child Labor Monitoring System COCOBOD Ghana Cocoa Board CRIG Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana 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 Framework Framework of Action to Support the Implementation of the Harkin- Engel Protocol 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 NAP National Action Plan NGO Non-Governmental Organization NPECLC Ghana’s National Programme for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Cocoa OCFT Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking PPP Combatting Child Labour in Cocoa Growing Communities in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, a public-private partnership between ILO-IPEC and Industry SOSTECI Côte d’Ivoire’s Child Labor Monitoring System USDOL U.S. Department of Labor WCF World Cocoa Foundation WFCL Worst Forms of Child Labor 2 Statement on Progress Towards the Reduction in Child Labor in the Cocoa Sectors in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana Programs under the Framework have been approved. The host under the Framework of Action to Support Implementation governments have their plans in of the Harkin-Engel Protocol place. People are on the ground to implement everything. We In September 2010, the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, the Government of have already demonstrated our Ghana, the United States Department of Labor (USDOL), Senator Tom commitment; now we need to Harkin, Representative Eliot Engel, and the International Chocolate and demonstrate results. In 2013 and Cocoa Industry (Industry) joined as partners under the Declaration of Joint 2014, we will have surveys of Action to Support Implementation of the Harkin-Engel Protocol child labor in cocoa communities (Declaration) and the accompanying Framework of Action to Support the of each country that will hold us Implementation of the Harkin-Engel Protocol (Framework) to tackle the to account. These surveys will pressing problem of child labor in the cocoa sector. Together, these not only tell us about the efficacy entities committed to the goal of reducing the worst forms of child labor of our work to date but also help (WFCL) in the cocoa sectors in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana by 70 percent in identify where we need to target aggregate by the year 2020. Under the Framework, they have joined any further actions to reach together to release this report today to inform the broader public of actions children who are facing the worst taken to date and progress made towards the stated goal. forms of child labor. Children who have been deprived of an The past year of Framework activity has focused on reviewing program education, deprived of a brighter proposals from Industry, supporting the Government of Ghana as it began future, and deprived of their to pilot the Ghana Child Labor Monitoring System (GCLMS), and childhood. supporting the Government of Côte d’Ivoire’s 2012-2014 National Action Plan (NAP) for the Fight Against Trafficking, Exploitation and Child ~ Senator Tom Harkin Labor. Another important effort was the identification of additional areas We have traveled a long road in of engagement and coordination for the Framework’s steering group, the the more than ten years since the Child Labor Cocoa Coordinating Group (CLCCG). These areas of focus Governments of the United for the CLCCG include: States, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, and the International Chocolate Widening engagement to the broader community of stakeholders, and Cocoa Industry first sat down including potential future partners under the Framework; together to address child labor in Developing a common set of indicators so that the data derived cocoa communities. Since then, from projects under the Framework can be harmonized; the CLCCG has seen and Developing interim milestones so that there can be a better approved multiple projects for assessment of progress toward the ultimate goal of the 70 percent which we hope to soon see data aggregate reduction in child labor in the cocoa sectors of Côte and results. Now, more than d’Ivoire and Ghana; ever, we must keep our intense Developing communications protocols so that Framework efforts focus on the reduction of child and progress may be publicly disclosed on a regular, ongoing basis; labor and hold firmly to our Implementing the nationally representative surveys of child labor commitments. in the cocoa sector in the 2013-2014 cocoa growing season called for under the Framework; ~Representative Eliot Engel Assessing the progress and coordinating technical assistance for the child labor monitoring systems (CLMS) called for under the Framework (SOSTECI in Côte d’Ivoire and GCLMS in Ghana). 3 Status of Efforts Made by the Governments of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana CHILD LABOR COCOA Led by First Lady Dominque Ouattara, Minister Gilbert Kone Kafana of COORDINATINGCHILD LABOR COCOA GROUP COORDINATING GROUP the Ministry of Employment, Solidarity and Social Affairs, and Minister The Child Labor Cocoa Raymonde Coffee Goudou of the Ministry of Family, Women and Children, the Government of Côte d’Ivoire published its NAP in 2012. CoordinatingThe Child Labor Group Cocoa (CLCCG) The NAP established an Inter-Ministerial Committee chaired by Ministers wasCoordinating established Group in 2010 (CLCCG) by the was established by the Kone Kafana and Coffee