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This brief summary provides key definitions of light work, child labour, hazardous child labour and the worst forms of child labour, in line with ILO definitions. It includes a comparison of legislation on hazardous activities and age thresholds for Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Cameroon.

This brief, prepared by the ILO, seeks to raise awareness on the root causes of child labour. Key findings: Increased efforts to eliminate child labour have yielded remarkable results in recent decades. However, the global progress against child labour has stalled for the first time in two decades and, without mitigation measures, the COVID-19 crisis is likely to push millions more children into child labour. Now more than ever, businesses – national and multinational, small, medium and large – have a critical role to play in tackling child labour and addressing its root causes. By

The Protective Community Index is a simple tool, developed by ICI, to rapidly assess access to services that help protect children in cocoa-growing communities. It captures factors related to children’s fundamental rights, such as quality education and safe water, as well as other community characteristics that are associated with lower levels of child labour. The tool consists of ten simple questions about service access and quality at community level. The information required can be gathered through a mixture of observation and through speaking with knowledgeable individuals, including

The WHO-5 Child Wellbeing Index is a simple tool for measuring children's psychological well being. It consists of five positively worded questions that can be administered in less than five minutes. This document presents a slightly simplified version of the original tool, developed by the World Health Organisation, with five response options instead of six. This version of the tool has been successfully tested by ICI in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana and has proved suitable for use with children aged 5 to 17. Consult the guide for an overview of the tool, how to use it and how to analyse the

The 2021 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, Forced Labour and Forced Marriage, produced by ILO, Walk Free and IOM, provides updated estimates of the total number of adults and children in modern slavery, forced labour and forced marriage worldwide, as well as disaggregated figures by region and by sector of employment. See the full report here.