Side Event 14 - Public and private sector collaboration: Integrated approaches to prevent and address child labour

This side event will explore opportunities for reinforced public and private sector collaboration to meaningfully tackle child labor in cocoa at a landscape level while highlighting lessons learned for agricultural supply chains more generally. With a focus on the cocoa sector, the session will review the sector's roll-out of effective Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) systems and services that prevent and address child labour, and will explore opportunities for more alignment, coherence, and integration as part of sector-wide efforts.

Everyone deriving revenue, profit or pleasure from cocoa or chocolate has a role to play in contributing to a more dignified and sustainable supply-chain. Working together in an integrated and coordinated way is key to accelerating progress and seeing sector wide change.