This document summarizes a virtual knowledge session on child protection in the cocoa, coffee, and spices industries. The session included presentations from industry and nonprofit representatives on efforts to prevent child labor. Specifically: 1. Marianne van Keep of Verstegen Spices & Sauces discussed their company's commitment to sustainability and responsibility for future generations. 2. Stephen Ashia of the ABOCFA cocoa cooperative described their role in preventing child labor in Ghana's cocoa sector through community education programs. 3. Representatives from Kyagalanyi Coffee and the Rainforest Alliance shared results from their project promoting child education in Uganda's coffee communities using community-based approaches. The session concluded with a discussion of lessons

1. Virtual Knowledge Session
Child protection in Cocoa,
Coffee and Spices
Thursday, 8 October 2020
Initiated by Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO) / Fonds
Bestrijding Kinderarbeid (FBK) & moderated by Anna Laven (KIT Royal Tropical
Institute)

2. Welcome by Rosanne van Vianen,
Dutch Fund against Child Labour (FBK)

3. Introduction and housekeeping
- What is our starting point?
- Objectives of this webinar
- Introducing the speakers
- Housekeeping

4. Our speakers
Our responsibility for next generations
- Marianne van Keep/ Verstegen Spices&Sauces
The role of ABOCFA cooperative in preventing child labour in the Cocoa
Sector in Suhum
- Stephen Ashia/Aponoapono Biakoye Organic Cacao Farmer Association
(ABOCFA)
Promoting child education in Uganda’s coffee sector using community
approaches
- Dr Anneke Fermont/Kyagalanyi Coffee Ltd and Kunera Moore/Rainforest
Alliance

5. Verstegen Spices & Sauces
• Marianne van Keep
• Director of sustainability

6. Verstegen, a family business

8. ABOCFA

9. Promoting child education in Uganda’s coffee
sector using community approaches
JDE, Kyagalanyi, CEFORD and RA
07 October 2020

10. 10
Setting the scene
• Kyagalanyi Coffee Ltd (KCL)
• Part of Volcafe group
• No 1 coffee exporter in Uganda
• 5 sustainable Arabica & Robusta coffee schemes / 25,000 HHs
• Rainforest Alliance (RA)
• International certification standard
• Formed in 2019 from UTZ – RA merger
• KCL & RA West Nile child education project (2015 – 2020)
• 6,000 smallholder households
• Key problem: children not / partially in school
• Community approach
• 1,200 children returned to school

11. 11
FBK project - introduction
• KCL identified child labour in new areas
• Rwenzori – children out of school
• Masaka – teenagers spraying
• Partners
• Private sector: KCL + JDE
• Public sector: RA + CEFORD
• Local government
• Contrasting regions
• Rwenzori
• Arabica, remote, poorer, high concentration of
small farms, few schools
• Masaka
• Robusta, near to Kampala, wealthier, scattered
larger farms, more schools
• Current status
• Project A baseline survey completed
• Project B proposal submitted

12. 12
Baseline research set-up
• Commissioned by RA, KCL and JDE
• Carried out by Dutch consultancy firm AidEnvironment
• Approach:
• Step 1: qualitative assessment + piloting HH survey
• Step 2: Quantitative assessment + full HH survey
• Step 3: Analysis -> overall impact study
• Tools
• Interviews with key stakeholders
• FGDs with communities, school teachers & hulleries
• FGDs with children – very rich data
• KCL member household surveys
• Local NGO assessment

13. 13
• Masaka – key forms of child labour
• 1. Teenagers (14-17) involved in dangerous work;
• 2. Children (6-13) working on other farms
• 3. Some children (6-13) not in school
• Rwenzori:
• 1. Children (6-13) not in school;
• 2. Children (6-13) working outside family farm
Not shown: Rwenzori – strong concentration of child labour in remote areas
Baseline research – key results
Masaka Rwenzori
0-5 6-13 14-17 0-5 6-13 14-17
# children surveyed 79 127 39 156 222 56
% out of school - 2 21 - 1 13
% partially out of school - 10 38 - 39 64
% in dangerous work - 2 28 - 1 5
% work outside family farm
- on other farms
- other type of work
0
0
17
1
5
28
0
0
14
23
29
52

14. Legend:
Red = very poor
Orange = moderate
Green = good
Community approach
Rwenzori:
• Remote, poor market access
• Small farms
• Low coffee production + income
• Incomes far below poverty line
• Moderate access to finance
• No access to inputs
• Children complement HH income
Masaka:
• Near Kampala, good market acces
• Larger, commercial farms
• High coffee production + income
• Incomes above poverty line
• Moderate access to finance
• Limited access to inputs
Rwenzori:
• 60% public schools
• Low ability to pay fees
• Low quality education
• Child safety concerns
Masaka:
• 40% public schools
• Good ability to pay fees
• Low quality educatoin
• Child safety concerns
• Teenagers not interested in
education
Masaka and Rwenzori:
• Child labour is acceptable
• Children do dangerous work
• Low decision making power
women in HH
• Polygamy
Masaka and Rwenzori:
• No local bylaws on child labour
• Poor law enforcement on child labour
at working facilities
• Public schools are free
• Child labour committees common

15. 15
Community approach
Topic Masaka Rwenzori
NGO (CEFORD)
Awareness
Culture & norms
Media campaigns for youth &
employers
Community CL structures
Education
Skills programmes for youth Internship
programme
Remedial teaching
Awareness for kids & parents
CL identification & remediation -
Household visits by CLLOs and
community
Government Strengthen district leaders Strengthen local leaders
Kyagalanyi Coffee ltd.
CL identification & remediation Household visits Household visits
Income from coffee
Focus = commercial farming
Group agronomy trainings
HH agronomy trainings
Better prices
Focus = improved farming
Group agronomy trainings
HH agronomy trainings
Better prices
Access to finance
& gender equity
- VSLAs

16. 16
Community approach – Lessons learned in West Nile
• Changing a deep social problem needs joined efforts
• All partners one message: children should be in school
• Changing cultural norms & values of wider community
• Integration of gender & child education approach works well
(joined HH decisions, savings, education & social funds, trainings)
• Integration with other KCL services to improve yields is important
• Full area-based approach is too expensive for private sector
• Focus on certified households within wider community
• Use risk-based approach – target areas with more child labour first
• Topic is sensitive: child labour -> child education
• M&E: Tracking children is not easy
• Every area is different – approach needs to be flexible

17. 17
Business case - child education project
Certificate holders – indirect business case
• Positive publicity, local, national & international
• Pass audits & maintain certified clients
 Not an easy ‘sale’
Farmers – short & long-term benefits
• Remain a certified member => services + RA differential
• Social-emotional support
• More income from better yields & VSLAs
• Educated children bring benefits to family

18. Questions?

19. Discussion

20. Final remarks and next steps
- Final remarks from Anna Laven (KIT)
- Reflections from FBK
- Next steps:
- Launch Digital Digest of this webinar
- Launch FBK Community app
- Spices event
- Give us feedback!
- Survey will open in browser once we end this webinar
For further questions contact : Fonds Bestrijding
Kinderarbeid – FBK, FBK@rvo.nl