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P4 We have established child labour monitoring across our managed sustainability programmes, covering
183,000 households in nine countries, and 100% deforestation monitoring across our direct global
supply chain, covering almost 12,000 suppliers.
The Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) developed in collaboration with the
Fair Labor Association (FLA), covers all of our managed sustainability programmes and is a groundbreaking new tool for monitoring child labour in Cameroon, Uganda, Brazil and Indonesia. This is a
critical step towards our goal of eradicating child labour from the cocoa supply chain by 2030. With
training and the help of a smartphone, community leads, and field officers now collect detailed social
data on individual farming households, helping to identify children at risk and take faster, more effective
action.
This data paints a clearer picture of child labour in the supply chain and the interventions needed. For
example, in Côte d'Ivoire, which has a reported high prevalence of child labour, 79% of school-aged
children attend school and 75% of children identified in a situation of child labour combine school and
work and in 97% of child labour cases, children were working for a parent or a relative. These findings
are in line with the recent NORC study from the University of Chicago which showed that school
attendance has increased significantly in Côte d’Ivoire in the past ten years, indicating that actions like
establishing birth certificates, building classrooms, providing school equipment and setting up Village
Savings and Loans Associations are contributing to improving access to education.
Does not meet this metric