Additionally, the ICCO offers expertise in cocoa market analysis and forecasting, project development and implementation, as well as capacity-building programs for its member countries.
All Members are represented in the International Cocoa Council, the highest governing body of the ICCO.
[17] COCOBOD had played a significant role to tremendous increment in Cocoa production in Ghana as it gains its support measures from the Ghanaian government.
In 2001, 40% of Chocolate consumed in the developed world was produced by child slavery and up to 1 million children in both Ghana and Ivory Coast as young as 10 years old are estimated to have been working on harvesting farms of cacao beans who had never attended school.
ICCO in partnership with the west African governments and other NGOS are working closely to end this child labor and slavery.