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This study examines patterns in child labor, child employment and informality for 22 sub-Saharan countries using household survey data, seeking to understand descriptively the patterns in child labor, child employment and informality that are present in this data. This type of descriptive analysis appears missing in the literature, and it is hoped that the study will help frame the subsequent causal studies that will examine different ways to alter the patterns documented herein.

This handbook aims to improve and facilitate conducting research on forced labor. Due to a need for careful attention to key ethical and safety considerations to protect study participants and interviewers and to produce and use findings that will benefit the affected communities, this handbook helps researchers to identify ethical issues with research involving exploited individuals and provide user-friendly guidance to protect the safety of study participants and researchers. Guidance is provided in the categories of research design, research implementation and data collection, and data analysis and reporting.

This handbook aims to improve and facilitate effective research on child labor by describing the risks to research subjects and researchers, ethical considerations, and practical realities related to child labor. Guidance is provided in the categories of research design, research implementation and data collection, and data analysis and reporting.

This study assesses the presence and characteristics of child labor in Kosovo's agricultural sector. The study also identifies working conditions and their impact on children's health and safety, as well as explores the barriers to education and opportunities for children engaged in agricultural work and proposes preventative and protective measures.

An infographic demonstrating the process of a worker being recruited into Argentina's informal labor market in the forestry sector.

An infographic listing recommendations for promoting decent work in Argentina's forestry sector.

An infographic listing the components of Argentina's forestry sector's value chain and the challenges it presents for the promotion of decent work.

Based on the experience of the rapid sector appraisal in the forestry sector in Argentina, this white paper aims at providing hands-on applied information to support the development of rapid sector appraisals focusing on forced labor, specifically, and more generally on other Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and on decent work gaps.

This report systematically presents a series of practical guidelines for designing and developing actions to promote decent work in the short, mid, and long term to address gaps of decent work in the forestry sector.

A document compiling the findings of a training seminar in the province of Jujuy in Argentina. The seminar trained attendees to build a common approach amongst audit enforcement agencies in addressing labor exploitation.