The Executive Secretariat of the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative will be permanently housed in Accra. The headquarters agreement was signed on Thursday August 05, 2021.

The Minister of State, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Côte d'Ivoire, Kobenan Kouassi Adjoumani and his Ghanaian counterpart, Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Minister of Food and Agriculture, signed a headquarters agreement of the Ivory Coast-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (ICCIG). This agreement aims for the effective payment of the decent income differential which is a premium of 400 US dollars (200,000 FCFA) per ton paid directly to the producer, making it possible to reach approximately 13% against 6% received hitherto by the producing countries on the 106 billion US Dollars (53,000 billion FCFA) generated annually by the cocoa business. The signing of this agreement thus makes the Executive Secretariat located in Accra definitively operational thanks to the hard work of the experts of the Coffee-Cocoa Board and Ghana Cocoaboard gathered around their respective general managers, Yves Brahima Koné for Côte d'Ivoire and the Honorable Joseph Boahen Aido for Ghana. The Initiative of the two largest cocoa producers in the world also reflects the declared desire of President Alassane Ouattara and his Ghanaian counterpart Nana Akufo-Addo to offer better living conditions to the growers of their two countries.