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A profile of a young girl named Martha who looks for scrap metal in mining waste sites to help support her family.

This resource manual is intended to support all those wishing to take action against child labor in domestic work and to protect young domestic workers of legal working age. It is designed, in particular, to strengthen the capacity of trade unions and workers' groups, community-based organizations and NGOs to advocate for an end to exploitation and abuse of children in domestic work, and to provide good practice guidance on the best ways of directly assisting these children.

This report presents an estimate of the people at risk of forced labor and the risk factors associated with the problem; and presents the results of the field research, which collected qualitative information from key informants and visits to certain farms or plantations. The report also presents the magnitude and characteristics of child labor, through the analysis of official information and field verification and description of the palm and cocoa production processes that incorporate children and adolescents in these activities. This study is the product of a consultancy commissioned from COMUNIDEC by the International Labor Office, and is linked to the expected results of the project "Building effective policies against child labor in Ecuador and Panama" (RLA 104) and the activities of El Plan Global de Acción Financiera.

National Action Plan on eliminating child labor issued by the Government of Cameroon.

The task of this baseline survey was to assess child labour in agriculture in Ghana, focusing particularly on cocoa, and with the aim to provide information that will contribute to the prevention and elimination in Ghana.

The activity is to enhance the capacity of the extensions services in the provision of relevant support to farmers to improve cocoa and other agriculture production through effective Occupational Safety and Health measures, actions against child labor, especially with respect to hazardous work, including their active participation in the Ghana Child Labour Monitoring System (GCLMS).

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")

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.

This report provides key insights about child domestic labor such as data regarding the estimated number of child domestic workers worldwide, information about child domestic workers' working conditions, information about policy responses to child labor, insight on the role of civil society organization in addressing child domestic labor, and recommendations for further actions to address child domestic labor.