Our impact evaluation projects use “gold standard” quantitative techniques to evaluate the impact of interventions on reducing child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking—part of a broader ILAB effort to build rigorous evidence on what works to secure and protect the rights of children and adults. Such evaluations support our partner governments’ evidence-based policymaking efforts and help identify proven strategies to inform ILAB’s future investments in class-leading global programs to combat child labor and forced labor.

This project promotes education and vocational training and decent work opportunities for vulnerable youth ages 15 to 17. The project also seeks to enhance livelihoods for youth and their families, support civic engagement of youth, and encourage youth to take on leadership roles within their communities.

The project will use an area-based approach to significantly reduce the incidence of exploitive child labor in the production of tea in Rwanda.

The project will support local efforts to reduce child labor in Tanzania through an area-based approach in the regions of Tanga and Kigoma, where there is a prevalence of child labor in agriculture production and domestic service.

This project seeks to contribute to regional and national initiatives to combat the worst forms of child labor (WFCL) in West Africa.

To provide uninterrupted oversight of public and private investment to eliminate the worst forms of child labor in the cocoa sector in Coted’Ivoire and Ghana.