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This school and community report on the 64 CCP communities reveal that majority of the communities are lacking of many economic and physical infrastructure, including education and health infrastructure. Child labor also seems to be common place in these communities. This report presents the findings from the community and school survey and covers the characteristics and profile of the communities as well as their basic schools.

The objective of the study is to prevent and eliminate child labour through a baseline survey of the agricultural sector in Côte d'Ivoire, particularly cocoa. The survey collected data to support the development of national policies and programmes on combating PEP, particularly to assist in the design of SOSTECI with guidance services for children engaged or at risk of engaging in PEPPs and their families.
 

(French version of "Baseline survey in cocoa-growing districts in Ghana - Household Survey Report")

The objective of this guide is to effectively support the transfer of knowledge and know-how to small producers involved in the IPEC-CCP-BIT 2013 project in order to increase productivity, quality and economic viability of production. of cocoa to support sustainable development of the cocoa sector in Côte d'Ivoire.

This study examines the link between child labor and various factors in a child's educational environment. It finds, generally, that the number of child victims of WFCL is inversely proportional to the improvement in the conditions of school attendance of children.

A guide presenting key points on the cultivation of cocoa.
 

This manual is intended as a working tool available to structures and supervisory agents in the agricultural world in general and cocoa producers in particular.

A report on the outcome of three (3) training/capacity-building workshops for Cocoa and Agriculture Extensions officers:  1 TOT for training officers, and 2 phases of trainings for front line staff of the two Extensions Services (DAES and CSSVDCU).  The first (TOT) roudn of trainings aimed to develop a corps of trainers on Child Labour issues in the agriculture and cocoa sub‐sector, and to enable these two Extension Services to mainstream child labour issues into their normal institutional trainings for purposes of sustainability of child labour interventions in the sector.  The second round of trainings aimed to equip participants with knowledge and skills in managing and preventing child labour as well as providing relevant support for improved OSH in the sector.

This report presents findings on needs assessments of schools, including teachers and School Management Committees (SMC) in 40 cocoa growing communities. The report feeds into the design and provision of direct educational services to target schools and teachers (including training for teachers).

This reference material is an addendum to the School Management Committee Resource Handbook. This addendum introduces three important reference materials: Child Labour, Governance and Leadership. Child labour is captured under Section 2 (Access and participation) of the training manual. Leadership and governance is captured under section 3 (management efficiency). This addendum seeks to provide information to trainers/facilitators using the updated SMC Training Manual.

This report outlines some of the key challenges behinds ECOWAS' efforts to address child labor in West Africa, as well as provides recommendations based on research findings on how ECOWAS can more effectively address issues of child labor.