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Report on study assessing the effectiveness of of youth employment interventions by E-FACE Program. Assessed interventions include: Occupational safety and health training, business owner incentives, working condition improvements, education interventions, etc. Sectors focused on include the weaving and agricultural sectors, among others.

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.

This study aims at developing an in–depth understanding of the child labor phenomenon in selected pastoralist communities with the aim of informing the formulation and/or revision of public policies and programmes on education and child labor elimination. Specifically, this study sets forth to assess the following dimensions of this phenomenon: the extent of pastoralist children’s participation in schooling; the magnitude and nature of child labor with respect to herding of livestock in both bomas (homesteads) and cattle camps; understanding the different hazards associated with child related activities; and gauging the attitude and perceptions of children, youth and their parents on education and child labor in their communities.

Report presenting results of a study meant to provide information on factors contributing to child labor and child trafficking mainly in the traditional weaving sector in Ethiopia. The research includes information on the reasons why children engage in child labor and what factors are contributing to child trafficking within the country both from the source (push) and destination points (pull).

A report presenting results of research into the types and the magnitude of workplace hazards children were exposed to in Ethiopia, especially in the traditional weaving, farming and fishing sectors. Presents suggestions for standards that could be imposed upon informal labor sectors in two zones of the South Nation and Nationalities People Region, Wolayta and Gamo Gofa, and Guliele Sub-city in Addis Ababa administrative city.

Report resulting from a survey/study of the knowledge, attitude and practices surrounding child labour and trafficking among communities in Southern and Central Ethiopia.

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).