Khulisa Management Services

Following reports of children being used to work under exploitive conditions in West African cocoa farms, the Harkin-Engel Protocol called for the creation of a certification process that would ensure that no abusive child labour would be used in cocoa production. Key components of this process include public reporting by each country on the worst forms of child labour including trafficking, and adult labour practices in the cocoa sector and the external verification of these reports. Khulisa and partner organisation Fafo AIS were contracted by the International Cocoa Verification Board to conduct this external verification.