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Insights into ILO Formalize Your Business in Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia and Senegal

Key learnings from trainers and entrepreneurs

The ILO at Work in Africa

Success Africa VI: Sustaining the World of Work in the COVID-19 pandemic era

This edition contains 25 stories from 20 countries and two follow-up stories from the previous editions of Success Africa to show how the ILO applied its expertise and experience to promote social justice during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health sector investment impacts on employment and economic growth: A panel ARDL analysis in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)

Strategic Compliance Planning in action, Stories of Change

The stories chronicle practical uses of the ILO’s Strategic Compliance Planning (SCP) methodology to help labour inspectorates achieve measurable improvements in labour law compliance for over 500,000 workers across 12 Member States.

The effective abolition of child labor in Côte d'Ivoire: The guidance offered by the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (French)

This guidance note encourages companies operating in Côte d'Ivoire to promote more comprehensive strategies and actions as part of a holistic approach to eliminating child labour and its root causes.

Social Finance Brief: Responsible finance in the cocoa supply chain in Côte d’Ivoire

This brief assesses the responsibility of financial sector actors in eliminating child labour in the cocoa supply chain in Côte d’Ivoire. This includes current practices in the sector and recommendations to use their leverage role in tackling child labour.

Stories of Change

Strategic Compliance Planning 2020 - 2021

Communication Strategies on Child Labour: From awareness raising to action

A desk review with preliminary design ideas for campaigns in Africa and Europe

Hiring a Multimedia Producer for the Documentation of individual and stakeholders’ stories in Accel Africa covered regions

The Accel Africa project seeks to engage a dynamic and highly skilled individual consultant in the role of multimedia production to support the documentation of project’s activities at regional and national level, stakeholder’s pledges progress communications as well as the AU in the implementation of its awareness raising, a priority area under the Ten Year Action Plan on Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery.

Ten Year Action Plan on the Eradication of Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery In Africa (2020-2030): Agenda 2063-SDG Target 8.7

The Action Plan seeks to contribute to and support the acceleration of progress towards the achievement of the Agenda 2063 – SDG 8.7 target. This involves ending child labour by 2025 and forced labour, human trafficking and modern slavery by 2030. The target population are children, women and men who are victims of or vulnerable to the forms of exploitation addressed by the Agenda 2063 - SDG 8.7 target.

Photo-Music competition launched to raise awareness of child labour

The competition aims to harness the power of music to help combat child labour, which affects 152 million children worldwide.

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Study on quality apprenticeships in five West Africa countries: Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger and Togo

Women migrant workers’ labour market situation in West Africa

This report provides an overview of the situation of women migrant workers in West Africa based on a review of laws, regulations, policies and exisiting data, with a special focus on Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria. It includes data on women migrant workers' working conditions and wages, sectors of employment, representation in the informal economy and other labour and social protection issues. The report was carried out with financial support from the "Support to Free Movement of Persons and Migration in West Africa" project (FMM) funded by the EU and ECOWAS.

Terms of Reference on the design of the first Accel Africa Project Newsletter

Recruit a consultant for the coaching on the design of the ACCEL Africa project’s first newsletter and leaflet

Request for Proposal for an assessment of financial and non-financial service providers in Nigeria

Recruiting a consultant to conduct an assessment of financial and non-financial service providers in Nigeria

Exploring the potential for skills partnerships on migration in West Africa and Sahel

Sub-regional study on skills systems and policies in place, migration flows and patterns, links between training and migration policies, and collaboration on skills anticipation, development and recognition within the sub-region.

Call for EOI for ACCEL Africa Evaluability Assessment

ILO/ACCEL Project is looking for an international consultant to conduct the Evaluability Assessment of the ACCEL Africa project in June-July 2020 through a home-based exercise.

Responding to the Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19 in West Africa: A Trade Union Perspective

This study was commissioned by the Organisation of Trade Unions in West Africa with financial support from the International Labour Organisation Country Office in Abuja Nigeria. The study cover 7 countries- Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Togo, and the trade union centres of these countries.

Summary Report of Research Products Developed within the SafeYouth@Work Project

Building a Generation of safe and healthy workers

Wages in Africa

Recent trends in average wages, gender pay gaps and wage disparities

This publication depicts the evolution of real average wages since the global economic crisis of 2008, offering insights into the economic context for Africa and also presenting an overview of existing wage disparities within countries, including those related to gender.