Children: Depending on Cocoa Sustainability Today, Delivering Cocoa Sustainability Tomorrow
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CHILDREN Depending on Cocoa Sustainability Today Delivering Cocoa Sustainability Tomorrow
Presentation to the WCF Partnership Meeting 6th June 2013, by Nick Weatherill
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Traditional “social triptych”:
ICI Anthropological Research 2011/12
THE TRADITIONAL
ROLE OF CHILDREN
Farming (long-term ambition)
Domestic Chores (immediate needs)
Schooling
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Modernisation:
ICI Anthropological Research 2011/12
THE MODERN ROLE OF
CHILDREN
Farming (immediate needs)
Domestic Chores (immediate needs)
Schooling (long-term ambition)
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ICI Anthropological Research 2011/12
MODERN AMBITIONS AND ASPIRATIONS (urbanisation etc)
Child farming ≠ progressive learning of a
long-term inter-generational livelihood
Child farming
= maximising
short-term economic earnings
MORE PRESSURE
LONGER HOURS
AGE-INAPPROPRIATE TASKS
WORK OVER LEARNING
Increased enrollment of children in schools
PHYSICAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL HARM
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STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS
• Improve access to education to satisfy demand for learning and social mobility in a modernising rural economy.
School infrastructure Quality of education Teacher training and deployment Addressing barriers to education
Girls School equipment / kits Scholarships
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STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS
• Recognise and respond to increased risks for the poorest and out-of-school kids.
Awareness-raising and training Child protection (ICI’s PCCF) Pro-poor social protection Responsible management of child labour risks in supply-chain
Child Labour Monitoring Targeted remediation
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STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS
• Re-establish cocoa farming as a rural livelihood-of-choice to be progressively learnt by younger generations.
Adequate, predictable income. Viable, resilient livelihoods. Social infrastructure in rural areas. Vocational training for youth. Numerate, literate, business-savvy farmers.
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As the ones at risk today, and as the farmers of tomorrow, children are at the heart of the cocoa sustainability challenge.