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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.

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. In this summary, we provide an overview of the Ghana Accelerated Action Plan Against Child Labour 2023 - 2027, its vision and core principles

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

This analysis provides an overview of relevant national legislation and policies aiming to protect children from child labour in Nigeria. It includes comparisons and linkages with international norms and standards on child labour, with a focus on those most applicable to child labour in agriculture and the cocoa sector. The analysis builds on the national constitution, existing laws and conventions ratified in the country, on existing good practice, and on recent countrywide studies of child labour to propose a list of hazardous activities, which could be included in surveys and tools used to

This meta-analysis includes a comprehensive set of interventions to provide a quantitative assessment of their impact on child labour. The research reviewed 614 studies on child labour and forced labour identified by the ILO's "Research to Action" (RTA) project and an additional 40 recent studies to obtain a sample of 41 randomized and quasi-experimental impact evaluations suitable for the meta-analysis. As several outcomes and interventions are reported in these studies, 131 effect-size estimates were collected; of these, 86 refer to the child’s probability of engaging in any type of activity