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National Child Labour Survey

Ghana Living Standards Survey Round 6 (GLSS6) - Child Labour

This report focuses on Child Labour in Ghana and is based on the results obtained from the implementation of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS) 2013 (round sixth) (GLSS6), conducted between 18 October 2012 and 17 October 2013.

Promoting social security systems through ILO Ghana-Luxembourg Social Trust Project

The International Labour Organization (ILO) Ghana-Luxembourg Social Trust (GLST) project has officially been closed. The project represented a concrete implementation in a delimited setting of the ILO’s Global Social Trust concept which saw the...

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...

Second phase of ILO SCORE Project launched in Ghana

The second phase of the International Labour Organizations (ILO) Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprise (SCORE) project has been launched in Ghana to improve productivity and working conditions in small and medium enterprise (SMEs)....

ILO Launches 2nd Phase of SCORE IN Ghana

The International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with Danadams Pharmaceuticals Industry Limited, a wholly-Ghanaian owned limited liability company incorporated in Ghana, has launched the second phase of the International Labour...

Eliminating the W worst forms of child labour in West Africa and strengthening sub-regional cooperation through ECOWAS I and II – (Final...

Projects: RAF/09/51/USA, RAF/10/53/USA

A partnership to combat child labour in the chocolate and cocoa industry

This partnership in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire between the ILO and a number of companies in the chocolate and confectionery industry seeks to eliminate child labour and to ensure workforce continuity in cocoa growing farms by younger generations. The...

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprise

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) is a practical training and in-factory counseling programme that improves productivity and working conditions in SMEs. The product demonstrates best international practice in the...

Youth employment model for children of legal working age

This report evaluates the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency Programmes with view to identifying the opportunities for LEC. It also presents a core model dubbed Smiling Youth Initiative to address the problem of youth unemployment for...

Baseline survey in cocoa-growing districts in Ghana - Household Survey Report

The task of the baseline survey was to assess child labour in agriculture in Ghana, focusing particularly on cocoa, and with the aim to provide information that will contribute to the prevention and elimination in Ghana.

SCORE Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises: PHASE I FINAL REPORT 2013

International labour standards

Ghana ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006)

With the ratification by Ghana, 44 ILO Member States representing nearly 75 per cent of the world’s global shipping tonnage have now committed themselves to the decent work standards of the Convention.

Analytical study on child labour in Volta Lake fishing in Ghana

The purpose of the study is to create a shared platform for action against child labour and trafficking in the fishing sector. The objectives are to examine the scope of the problem; to find out the nature and dimensions, including the extent of...

Public-Private partnership (PPP) between the chocolate and cocoa industry and the ILO in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire (Midterm implementation...

Project RAF/11/01/GIG and RAF/11/04/GIG - Evaluation consultant: Sue Upton

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the chocolate and cocoa industry and the ILO in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire (Midterm Implementation...

Project: RAF/11/04/GIG Evaluation Consultant: Sue Upton

Youths between urbanisation and poverty: livelihood opportunities and challenges of informal apprenticeships in Ghana

Policy options for improving informal apprenticeship - experiences from Ghana

Youth poverty in Accra: urban livelihoods in informal apprenticeships

Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 21

Technical assistance for capacity building support to the Ghana Social Opportunities Project (GSOP) (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project GHA/11/01/IBR Evaluation consultant: Andres Beusch

Towards child labour-free cocoa growing communities in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana through an Integrated Area-Based Approach (Midterm...

Project: RAF/10/54/USA Evaluation Consultant: Sue Upton