Cocoa Life - In Ghana

Cocoa Life In Ghana

Ghana is the world's second-largest cocoa-producing country (Côte d'Ivoire is the largest). Cocoa Life has been active in Ghana since 2008, when it began as the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership. At the end of 2018, there were 38,417 farmers participating in Cocoa Life, across 447 communities.

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Ghana

38,417

Farmers currently participating in Cocoa Life

Cocoa Life active in country since

2012

447

Cocoa Life communities

Cocoa Life origin team members

GHANA COCOA BOARD (COCOBOD)

Cocoa Life’s government partner

A story on community in Ghana

"WITH COMMUNITY ACTION PLANS, WE HAVE THE POWER TO SPEAK UP AND ADVOCATE FOR OURSELVES."

By Jacob Akpalu, Cocoa Life community leader, Okotokrom, West Akim District, Ghana

A story on farming in Ghana

"My decision to rehabilitate my farms through Cocoa Life has transformed my life for the better."

By Ohene Boafo, cocoa farmer and president of the Atta-Ne-Atta Cooperative Society and West Akyem Cooperative Union

Ghana

"Cocoa Life is a vibrant intervention which is also organic, responding to actual needs of community partners as well as the interests of government and our business. Our commitment to ensuring that communities thrive and community members have voices that are listened to is very real as it enables the cocoa farmers drive the change. Cocoa is the backbone of the economy of Ghana; and cocoa farmers should be proud that they are driving the economy of Ghana. We are already seeing indications of change, which is fantastic."

Yaa Peprah Amekudzi, Cocoa Life’s Country Lead for Ghana

2018 GHANA PROGRESS DASHBOARD

This dashboard demonstrates the scale achieved by the end of 2018 and how Cocoa Life is making progress in Ghana. Cocoa Life monitors the below output indicators under five focus areas. These are interventions we put in place with our partners.

Cocoa farming as a prosperous business

Farmers trained, coached or having a farm development plan on Good Agricultural Practices

38,417

Cocoa seedlings distributed

5,009,679

Nurseries

Cocoa-farming demonstration plots

447

Youth trained on cocoa-related enterprises¹

7,828

1. Youth is the age range from 18-35 in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, and 15-24 in Indonesia. ↩

Cocoa communities are empowered and inclusive

Communities with a CODEC and Community Action Plan activated²

447

CAP projects completed in communities

Community members trained on gender awareness

60,730

Village Savings and Loan Associations operational

342

Community members who participate in VSLAs

12,401

VSLAs linked to finance institutions

Community members trained on financial literacy

12,635

Community members trained on business management

17,672

Community members involved in additional Income Generating Activities

8,146

Community members and farmers educated on issues of child labor and forced child labor

101,976

Communities with Child Protection Committees

447

Communities with a Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation System or equivalent

403

2. A committee elected by the communtiy develops and presents the plans. ↩

Forests are conserved & restored

Community members & farmers trained on Good Environmental Practices

87,413

Economic shade trees distributed

1,135,024

Farms mapped & monitored

39,653

About the Dashboard

Cocoa Life routinely collects monitoring data from our partners as part of the ongoing review of program performance at the local level, so we can apply learnings to improve program outcomes in the future.