Towards Child Labor Free Cocoa Growing Communities
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This project seeks to contribute to national initiatives to combat the WFCL in cocoa producing areas in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire.
The Problem
In Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, thousands of children are engaged in hazardous activities in cocoa farming, including clearing fields, using machetes, and applying pesticides. While most of the children work alongside their families, others have no family relationship with the farmer and have been recruited through intermediaries or trafficked. Lack of access to education and poverty of the rural families in cocoa producing areas result in a vicious cycle in which children are caught in the worst forms of child labor (WFCL).
Our Strategy
Targets:
The project targets at a minimum 5,000 children to be withdrawn and prevented from the WFCL in the cocoa producing areas of Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. The project targets at a minimum 2,000 families for the provision of livelihood services in order to sustainably withdraw and prevent children from the WFCL.
Immediate Objectives:
- In selected cocoa growing communities:
- Children will have improved access to relevant quality education;
- Households will have enhanced sustainable livelihoods;
- Communities will develop and implement plans to eliminate child labour in their communities;
- National capacity to deploy an appropriate child labour monitoring system will be improved; and
- Partner organizations capacity to contribute to eliminating child labor will be increased.
Summary of Activities:
- Rescue and rehabilitate children from hazardous and exploitive labor, and prevent new children entering hazardous or exploitive labor by awareness-raising campaigns among groups at risk and through direct action programs;
- Provide formal and non-formal education, referral to local schools, catch-up classes, or occupational skills training, for children withdrawn or prevented from exploitive child labor;
- Improve the quality of education by working with government officials to improve the curriculum, increase vocational training opportunities, reduce teacher absenteeism, and provide relevant extracurricular activities;
- Provide livelihood services to families, including income generation training, financial management skills development and improved access to credit.
- Reinforce efforts related to child labor monitoring systems; and
- Work with communities in cocoa producing areas to integrate sustainably reducing and preventing WFCL into their community development plans.
Results
As of March 31, 2015, the project has provided education services to 5,403 children and livelihoods services to 2,200 households.
- Grantee:
- International Labor Organization (ILO)
- Implementing Partners:
- Government of Ghana and partner NGOs in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire
- Contact Information:
- (202) 693-4843 / Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT)
- Tags:
- Child Labor
- Cocoa
- Livelihoods
Related Project Resources
- Eliminating Hazardous Child Labour and Occupational Safety, Health, and Environmental Risks. A manual for agents of change in cocoa communities in Ghana.
- Trainers' Manual on Child Labour for Agriculture Extension Officers in Ghana
- Needs Assessment of Community Schools and School Management Committees in Target Cocoa Growing Communities in Ghana
- Research to identify practical measures to enhance productivity in cocoa growing communities in Ghana. Final Report.
- Report on the Review of Capacity and Coordination towards Elimination of Child Labour in Ghana. Volume I: Report on the main findings and recommendations
- Report on the Review of Capacity and Coordination towards Elimination of Child Labour in Ghana, Volume II: Consultancy report on capacity and coordination review process and methodology
- School Management Committee Training Manual
- Addendum. School Management Committee Resource Handbook.
- Child Labour Strategic Plan for Agricultural Extension Services (2013-2020)
- Statement by Hon. Joseph Amenowode, Member of Parliament (MP) for Afadjato and Chair of the Select Committee on Employment, Social Welfare and State Enterprises
- Press Briefing by the Parliamentary Select Committee on Employment, Social Welfare, and State Enterprises
- Press Briefing
- Press Release. West African Parliamentarians take Action against Child Labour
- Press Briefing by the Parliamentary Select Committee on Employment, Social Welfare, and State Enterprises
- Statement by Hon. Joseph Amenowode, Member of Parliament (MP) for Afadjato and Chair of the Select Committee on Employment, Social Welfare and State Enterprises
- Bonnes pratiques et leçons apprises dans les communautés de cacaoculture en Côte d’Ivoire
- Good practices and Lessons learned in Cocoa Communities in Ghana
- Photo album of good practices and lessons learned of the ILO-IPEC Cocoa Communities project in Ghana
- Good practices and lessons learned in cocoa communities in Ghana
- Baseline survey in cocoa-growing districts in Ghana - Household Survey Report
- Étude de base sur le travail des enfants dans la culture du cacao dans les départements de Bouaflé, Mbatto Daoukro, Issia et Soubré
- Manuel du producteur relais sur les techniques d’accroissement de la productivité du cacao
- Capacity building of cocoa and agriculture extension officers and other key partners on child labour - Report
- Report on assessment of coordination capacity in the Child Labour Unit, Labour Department Ghana: Consultancy report
- Rapport d’étude de la consultance en vue de l’évaluation des besoins en éducation dans les communautés ciblées du projet
- Evaluation des opportunités et des besoins en formation professionnelle et vocationnelle dans les communautés cibles du CCP
- Guide du producteur de cacao
- Le manuel des services et agents d’encadrement des cacaoculteurs
- Institutional and Social Intervention Mapping and Capacity Needs Assessment of District and Community Level Partners for Child Labour Elimination
- Baseline survey in cocoa-growing districts in Ghana - Community and School Survey Report
- Enhancement [of] the Capacity of Cocoa and Agriculture Extension Services and other Key Partners on Child Labour - Workshop Report
- Education needs assessment in target cocoa growing communities in Ghana - Including coverage of migrant children