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Founded in 2002, the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) is the leading organisation tackling child labour and forced labour in the cocoa sector of West Africa, with offices in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Switzerland. In this brochure, we give an overview of our work to tackle child labour and forced labour in the cocoa sector in West Africa.

This analysis provides an overview of relevant national legislation and policies aiming to protect children from child labour in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 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, existing good practice, and recent countrywide studies of child labour to propose a list of hazardous activities, which could be included in surveys

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

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

Two core activities of a Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) are to raise awareness amongst farming families on harm resulting from child labour; and to identify children in, or at risk of child labour through an active monitoring process. The agents who implement these activities are the primary point of contact between farmers, their children and the CLMRS. Many systems rely on locally based agents, often farmers themselves, to do this job. This study aimed to better understand the dynamics of interactions between CLMRS agents and farmers when they have a personal