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An estimated 20% of children in cocoa growing areas of Côte d’Ivoire miss out on their fundamental right to education. Bridging classes are a type of accelerated education programme to help out-of-school kids catch up on missed learning and get back into the classroom. From 2019 to 2021, the International Cocoa Initiative set up 131 bridging classes in partnership with the Ministry of Education of Côte d’Ivoire, the Jacobs Foundation and Nestlé, within the framework of TRECC (Transforming Education in Côte d'Ivoire). They used the innovative "Teaching at the Right Level" child-paced learning

The Durban Call to Action is a document that emphasizes the need for urgent action to end child labour. It was adopted by Delegates at the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour on 20 May 2022. Its goal is to accelerate progress on ending child labour, after years of reversal due to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and other global vulnerabilities. To achieve the shared goal of zero child labour, thousands of Delegates from governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations, UN agencies, civil society and regional organizations agreed to focus on specific key areas

From 2019 - 2021, International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), in partnership with the Ministry of Education of Côte d’Ivoire, implemented a pilot project in eight cocoa-growing communities in Côte d’Ivoire to improve teaching, learning and school facilities for primary school children. The project reached more than 2,200 pupils in primary schools in 5 regions of Côte d’Ivoire. ICI focused on creating a learning environment where children feel safe and protected, guided by effective teachers and school leadership, and supported by their parents and the wider community. A bundle of interventions was

This literature review provides an up-to-date overview of causal evidence of the consequences of child work on children’s development, education, and health. It explores the harmful consequences of work by children and describes the complex, nuanced, and multidimensional relationship between child work and its impacts, drawing on more than thirty rigorous quantitative studies. This study focuses on several outcomes affected by the work during childhood and adolescence. These outcomes include school attendance, dropout, and academic performance, the child’s physical and mental development, and

This report by ILO and UNICEF provides an overview of the latest research on social protection and child labour. Key messages: Providing families with direct assistance can help alleviate the stressors linked to poverty and vulnerability that underlie the use of child labour. Carefully designed, social protection systems can help reduce child labour as part of an integrated set of policy measures. Many countries have adopted and strengthened their social protection systems in recent years, but global coverage is still too low. Many social protection systems are not designed to cover children