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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.
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.
Youth-to-Youth Fund - Improving work opportunities for young people in the Mano River Union: Public-Private Partnership
Aimed at youth-led organizations in Guinea, the ILO Youth Employment Network, in collaboration with UNIDO, FCP, and the World Bank, launched a competitive grant scheme. The call was for innovative small-scale youth employment projects, and supported young people in their transition from being passive recipients to active participants in the creation of employment and the impact this can have on the promotion of peace. Successful applicants were awarded a grant of between USD 5,000 and 20,000 in tandem with the provision of capacity building assistance in order to support project implementation.
Recovery of the World of Work in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
Bringing ILO Support to Decent Work for the Social and Economic post-Ebola Recovery
Recovering from the Ebola Crisis
The outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in parts of West Africa is now the largest, longest, most severe and most complex in the nearly four-decade history of this disease. This report comprises contributions to the national recovery planning processes.
The twin challenges of child labour and educational marginalisation in the ECOWAS region - An overview
As part of the efforts to address the present urgent situation, Governments and regional institutions have developed the ECOWAS Child Policy and the accompanying Strategic Plan of Action for the ECOWAS Child Policy, as well as the West Africa Regional Action Plan to Eliminate Child Labour (and especially its Worst Forms) and the Accra Declaration of the ECOWAS-ILO Symposium on West Africa Regional Action Plan which signal the national intent to eliminate child labour and provide an essential framework for efforts to achieve this goal. This Report was produced to help translate these plans into concrete actions. It is specifically aimed at building the evidence base necessary for the design and targeting of specific interventions against child labour. It brings together the most recent available information from a variety of national household surveys to provide a detailed picture of child labour and the related challenge of educational marginalisation in the ECOWAS region.
Improving work opportunities for young people in the Mano River Union (Youth-to-Youth fund)
Aimed at youth-led organizations in Guinea, the YEN, in collaboration with UNIDO, FCP, and the WB, launched a competitive grant scheme. The call was for innovative small-scale youth employment projects and supported young people in the transition from being passive recipients to active participants in the creation of employment and the effects this can have on the promotion of peace. Successful applicants were awarded a grant of between USD 5,000 and 20,000 in tandem with the provision of capacity building assistance in order to support project implementation.
ECOWAS Regional Action Plan for the elimination of Child Labour - Especially the worst forms (Second version - including Accra Simposium Declaration May 2013)
The current ECOWAS Regional Action Plan for the Elimination of Child Labour aims at ensuring that children are shielded from activities that are detrimental to their physical, social or psychological well-being.
Desk review of research on HIV/AIDS in the world of work
This desk review was conducted by ILO/AIDS as part of the Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV workplace policies/programmes and private sector engagement (IATT/WPPS). It is based primarily on the research documents shared by the IATT members, covering vulnerability studies, stigma and discrimination studies, impact and cost-benefit studies.
Study on capacity building
Building the Capacity of Relevant ECOWAS Units for the Elimination of Child Labour in West Africa
The objectives of the study is to understand the child labour situation in the ECOWAS region; analyze and estimate the capacity of the technical units of ECOWAS to work for the elimination of child Labour in the region and build the capacity of the member countries to work for the elimination of child labour in their countries; asses the gaps in the requirement and the existing capacity; and recommend the actions to be taken for filling those gaps and for sustainability.
Prevention and resolution of violent and armed conflicts
Training manual for use by trade union organizations
Promotion of a social dialogue programme in Africa (PRODIAF III) (Final Evaluation Summary)
Project RAF/08/12/BEL - Evaluation consultants: Ian Davies and Mohamadou SY
Implementing HIV/AIDS workplace policies and programmes in selected countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean (Final Evaluation Summary)
Project INT/07/09/GTZ
Building the Case for Business Collaboration on Youth Employment: Good Practice from West Africa
This report, which examines eight case studies of intersectoral partnership on youth employment, illustrates the importance of collective action to build partnerships between public and private insitutions, harnessing each of their core capabilities and recognising that they are critical to each others capacity.
Training manual guide
Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms - Paper No. 2 - Safety and health hazards
Paper No.2 of four papers synthesizing the knowledge and experiences acquired from the ILO-IPEC project "West African Cocoa and Commercial Agriculture Project to Combat Hazardous and Exploitive Child Labour" (WACAP), which was implemented in Cameroon,Côte d¿Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria from 2002 to 2006. This paper summarizes the finding of country studies on the safety and health situations ofchildren working in cocoa farming in the countries covered by the project.
Training manual guide
Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms - Paper No. 3 - Sharing experiences
Paper No. 3 of four papers synthesizing the knowledge and experiences acquired from the ILO-IPEC project "West African Cocoa and Commercial Agriculture Project to Combat Hazardous and Exploitive Child Labour" (WACAP), which was implemented in Cameroon,Côte d¿Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria from 2002 to 2006. This paper summarizes the experiences, outcomes and lessons learned from implementing WACAP in the five countries. While it highlights many emerging successful strategies,
Training manual guide
Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms - Paper No. 4 - Child labour monitoring - A partnership of communities and government
Paper No. 4 of four papers synthesizing the knowledge and experiences acquired from the ILO-IPEC project "West African Cocoa and Commercial Agriculture Project to Combat Hazardous and Exploitive Child Labour" (WACAP), which was implemented in Cameroon,Côte d¿Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria from 2002 to 2006. This paper summarizes the experiences, outcomes and lessons learned from setting up community-based child labour monitoring in Côte d¿Ivoire and Ghana.
Training manual guide
Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms - Paper No. 1 - A synthesis report of five rapid assessments
Paper No. 1 of four papers synthesizing the knowledge and experiences acquired from the ILO-IPEC project "West African Cocoa and Commercial Agriculture Project to Combat Hazardous and Exploitive Child Labour" (WACAP), which was implemented in Cameroon, Côte d¿Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria from 2002 to 2006. This report describes the findings of five country-level rapid assessments on the situation of child labourers in agriculture in cocoa growing and other crops.
West Africa Cocoa and Commercial Agriculture Project to combat hazardous and exploitative child labour (WACAP) (Final Evaluation Summary)
Project: RAF/03/06/ICA Evaluation Consultant: Stanley Asangalisah
Strengthening African trade unions’ capacity to address gender inequality in the world of work through basic education and legal literacy (Final Evaluation Summary)
Project RAF/04/55/NET