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The Protective Community Index is a simple tool, developed by ICI, to rapidly assess access to services that help protect children in cocoa-growing communities. It captures factors related to children’s fundamental rights, such as quality education and safe water, as well as other community characteristics that are associated with lower levels of child labour. The tool consists of ten simple questions about service access and quality at community level. The information required can be gathered through a mixture of observation and through speaking with knowledgeable individuals, including

The Protective School Environment Assessment is a simple tool to assess three dimensions of a quality learning environment: safety, stability, and nurturance. It is a proxy measure, which captures aspects related to the physical and relational environment at school. Higher scores are associated with lower levels of teacher violence, higher levels of pupil wellbeing at school, and better learning outcomes for children. Read the tool overview: Protective School Environment Assessment Download the questionnaires: Protective school environment - questionnaire (EN) Environnement scolaire protecteur

This ICI study explores the relationship between child labour, school attendance and child well-being among children in cocoa-growing households in Côte d’Ivoire. This study investigates whether, in the context of smallholder farming in cocoa-growing areas of West-Africa, children’s psychological wellbeing (a proxy for the child’s physical and mental health) and access to school are linked with the intensity of exposure to child work, one of the several determinants of severity of child work. We use data from a survey of 2,274 children in 5 cooperatives in the regions of Gbôklé, Nawa and San

The WHO-5 Child Wellbeing Index is a simple self-reported measure of children’s psychological wellbeing. It consists of five, positively phrased questions, which can be administered in under five minutes. This document presents a slightly simplified version of the original tool, developed by the World Health Organization, with five answer options instead of six. This version of the tool was successfully tested by ICI in both Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and found to be suitable for use with children aged 5-17. View the guidance, for an overview of the tool, how to use it and how to analyse the

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