Resources

This new Policy Briefing Paper, jointly published by Time to Talk and Young Lives, explores policies and measures to incorporate working children’s views in policy interventions.

This article examines the impacts of two large-scale cash transfer programmes in Malawi and Zambia on child labour. Both programmes increased children’s exposure to work in agriculture that may be harmful to them, yet resulted in positive impacts on children’s school attendance and material well-being. The results demonstrate some of the complex effects of increasing incomes in agricultural areas.

This ICI review analyses current due diligence and transparency legislation through the lens of the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).

The Child Labor Cocoa Coordinating Group Annual Report is released on behalf of the signatories to the Declaration of Joint Action to Support Implementation of the Harkin-Engel Protocol, which was signed in 2001 by the U.S. Department of Labor, the governments of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and the National Confectioners Association, on behalf of the international chocolate and cocoa industry.

Child labour in cocoa-growing areas is caused by a complex interplay of social, economic and cultural factors. These differ greatly between households, communities and countries. As a result, measuring child labour is costly. Surveys to measure the number of children in child labour are complex to administer and require large samples.