Resources

Cash transfers are increasingly used as a way of addressing poverty across the world. Evidence shows that they can have a positive impact on children’s welfare, improving access to education, nutrition, health and material wellbeing. However, much less is known about their impact on child labour. To fill this evidence gap, the International Cocoa Initiative conducted a review of evidence on how cash transfers affect child labour. The study is part of an ongoing project with Nestlé and ECOM, supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

Measurement of child labor is critical for our understanding of its determinants and conditions, and for the design of social protection programs and policy. This study reports the findings of three survey design experiments implemented across Fairtrade coffee households in rural Ethiopia in three different agricultural seasons.

This paper offers insights into the impact of gender on child well-being in relation to cash transfers via family and child allowances based on evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Program.

This major study by the Royal Tropical Institute aims to contribute to the cocoa sector’s body of knowledge and provide a solid evidence base to test common assumptions and beliefs.

Commissioned by Mondelez International and prepared by CARE International, this report reviews the current role of women in cocoa farming in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.