All resources: Ghana

Analytical studies on child labour in mining and quarrying in Ghana

The study aims at the following objectives: To examine the scope of the problem of child labour in mining and quarrying; to find out the, nature and dimensions of Child Labour in mining and quarrying, including the extent of trafficking into the...

Capacity building of cocoa and agriculture extension officers and other key partners on child labour - Report

The activity is to enhance the capacity of the extensions services in the provision of relevant support to farmers to improve cocoa and other agriculture production through effective Occupational Safety and Health measures, actions against child...

ECOWAS Regional Action Plan for the elimination of Child Labour - Especially the worst forms (Second version - including Accra Simposium...

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.

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The global impact of e-waste: Addressing the challenge

This paper explores the volumes, sources and flows of e-waste, the risks it poses to e-waste workers and the environment, occupational safety and health issues, labour issues and regulatory frameworks, and links this growing global problem with the...

Up-scaling Local Economic Development: Lessons from the Ghana Decent Work Programme 2011

This case study presents and analyses the lessons learned from the Local Economic Development (LED) component of the Ghana Decent Work Programme (GDWP), particularly with regard to up-scaling and replication. It shows that LED can have sustainable...

SCORE Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises: PHASE I Final Evaluation Summary 2012

SCORE Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises: PHASE I INDIA Final Evaluation Summary 2012

Institutional and social intervention mapping and capacity needs assessment of District and Community level partners for child labour...

In view of the need to build capacity of all relevant and key partners of the ILO-CCP/PPP project on Community Action Plans (CAPs), a needs assessment of the community level and district level partners was conducted by ICI in collaboration with ILO.

Impact Insurance Research Paper #23: Agricultural decisions after relaxing credit and risk constraints

Research Paper #23 examines how uninsured risk constrains farmers in Northern Ghana. It shows that when provided with insurance against the primary catastrophic risk they face, farmers are able to increase expenditure on their farms and make riskier...

Eliminating the Worst Forms of Child Labour in West Africa and Strengthening Sub-Regional Cooperation through ECOWAS I and II (Final...

Project: RAF/10/53/USA Evaluation Consultants: Core team: Andrew Gilboy (Team Leader); Yacouba Konate; Cheikh Tidiane Toure - National Evaluators: Adabanke Akinrimisi (Nigeria); Fred Afari (Ghana); Kam Oleh, (Côte d'Ivoire)

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...

Technical Guide

Small earth dams and dugouts - Training guide and technical reference for LIPW

Training guide and technical reference for LIPW personnel

Extending social security to African migrant workers and their families (RBSA Evaluation Summary)

Project RAF/08/02/RBS - Evaluation consultants: Stanley A. Asangalisah

A Trade Union's Battle against Child Labour in Ghana

In Ghana, the General Agricultural Workers' Union, known as the "G-A-W-U" with support from the ILO, has had a major impact on eliminating the worst forms of child labour. Acting both independently, and using "social dialogue" to collaborate with...

Ghana's Code of Conduct against Child Labour

One of the keys to successfully fighting child labour is making families aware how they may be putting their own children at risk. But that is especially challenging when the labour of young children has traditionally been considered an extra source...

Needs assessment of community schools and school management committees in target cocoa growing communities in Ghana

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Report on the Review of Capacity and Coordination towards Elimination of Child Labour in Ghana. Volume I: Report on the main findings and...

This is volume I of the report on the assessment, detailing the findings and recommendations for strengthening national capacity to coordinate and implement the NP on child labour in Ghana.