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This manual, developed by the World Cocoa Foundation on behalf of CocoaAction companies, describes the Community Development package in detail. CocoaAction’s Community Development package is an innovative approach under which companies have committed to aligning their efforts in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana under a common set of actions and aims.

This paper examines the relationship between child labour and educational attainment and explores the distinction between harmful and non-harmful agricultural cocoa work. esults show that hazardous child labour increases the odds of repeating a class and work-related injury compared to non-hazardous labour.

The Cocoa Household Income Study Methodology has been developed to measure cocoa household income and living income. This document provides detailed guidance for measuring household incomes and collecting intervention data as well as instructions on designing living income studies in terms of sample selection and analysis.

Building on the 2009-2015 and the 2017-2021 National Plans of Action (NPA), the Ghana Accelerated Action Plan Against Child Labour 2023-2027 (GAAPACL) sets out the framework for the national strategic and implementation plan for combating the worst forms of child labour in all sectors. It identifies the need for updated measures based on lessons learned from previous NPAs to accelerate national actions and efforts towards the elimination of child labour.

These guidelines are intended to help researchers and organizations, including national statistics offices, to design and implement studies and data collection tools that are ethically sound and appropriate to collect information about child labour. Children and young people are routinely asked about aspects of their lives, including work. Children are interviewed in workplaces, in their households and while in the care of service providers. In any of these situations, interviewing children about their lives and work raises ethical and safety questions for children themselves, for parents or