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Empowering youth, eradicating child labour: ACCEL Africa's impact in Malawi
Through the project’s efforts, 282 youths, comprising 193 boys and 89 girls, graduated from various vocational skills trades in January 2023. These trades include motorcycle mechanics, tailoring and designing, bricklaying, carpentry, and joinery, as...
Towards a future without child labour: Profiling and community mobilization in Grand-Zattry and M’Batto as part of ACCEL Africa 2nd phase
Unveiling the next chapter in child labour elimination: ILO's ACCEL Africa project phase 2 workshop in Abuja
The ACCEL Africa Project Phase 2 aims to build on the achievements of its phase 1, adopting innovative approaches to address the systemic causes of child labour in sectors such as cocoa and artisanal gold mining supply chains.
Unveiling the next chapter in child labour elimination: ILO's ACCEL Africa project phase 2 workshop in Abuja
ACCEL Africa: Kenya county stakeholders forums report - Kirinyaga, Kericho, Kisii and Meru
The ACCEL AFRICA-Kenya County Stakeholders Forums Report highlights a critical juncture in the fight against child labour, particularly emphasizing the disturbing increase in child labour rates for the first time in two decades. The report...
ACCEL Africa leads transformative M&E training in Entebbe to combat child labour
The event was marked by robust participation from project implementers, government officials, and SCO partners, all focused on enhancing their skills in applying the Results-Based Management (RBM) methodology, within the project and for their own...
Highlighting the progress and challenges encountered by cocoa producing communities in Ivory Coast as part of an ACCEL Africa monitoring...
Accelerating the elimination of child labour in Africa: Key takeaways from the county stakeholders forums in Kenya
Key objectives of the forums included the establishment of contacts with government officials and stakeholders, identification of child labour challenges specific to the coffee and tea sectors, and the development of coordinated mechanisms for...
Workshop to present the work plan-Côte d’Ivoire: Towards an accelerated elimination of child labor in Africa
The workshop to present the ACCEL Africa 2 project work plan marked an important step in the implementation of phase 2 of the ACCEL Africa project, funded by the Netherlands.
Cultivating security through ACCEL Africa’s transformational journey
Kwame Kadiu, a 50-year-old coffee and cocoa farmer shares his incredible journey of personal and professional transformation thanks to the ACCEL Africa project. His experience was marked by the discovery of WIND (Work Improvement in Neighborhood...
United against child labour: The Government of the Netherlands and the ILO renew their partnership through 2nd phase of ACCEL Africa project
The ILO and the Netherlands are uniting against child labour through the 2nd phase of the ACCEL Africa project in a holistic approach.
ACCEL Africa 2nd Phase
Accelerating action for the elimination of child labour in supply chains in Africa (ACCEL AFRICA) - 2nd phase in brief
The ACCEL Africa Project is entering its second phase with a strong commitment to eradicating child labour in supply chains across Africa. It is continuing to target the root causes of child labour in specific countries and supply chains,...
ILO brief
A holistic approach for the elimination of child labour and its roots causes in supply chains: Mainstreaming the promotion of the MNE...
ACCEL Africa results in Egypt
The brief provides a description of the most relevant results of the ACCEL Africa project implementation in Egypt.
Sharing Results, Celebrating Impact!
Results Video: ACCEL Africa
The Results Video of the "Accelerating action for the elimination of child labour in supply chains in Africa (ACCEL Africa) project" 1st phase implementation presents a comprehensive account of the project's journey from November 2018 to June 2023.
ACCEL Africa Paves the Way for Change in Cote d'Ivoire's Cocoa and Gold Mining Value Chains
The ACCEL Africa project recently concluded its capitalization workshop, marking an important milestone in its goal to accelerate action or elimination of child labour in the cocoa and artisanal gold mining value chains in Côte d'Ivoire.
ACCEL Africa: Advancing Responsible Gold Mining for Livelihoods and Rights
The video presents the approaches undertaken by the ACCEL Africa project in Mali, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire to foster the formalization of the ASGM sector in the three target countries, providing insights from miners, local leaders, Government’s...
ACCEL Africa: World Day Against Child Labour 2023
AUC-ILO Africa Forum on Child Labour
Harnessing Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives to address Child Labour
The AUC-ILO Forum, that hosted thirty AU’s member states from the different sub-regions in Africa, had as main objective to support the implementation of the African Union’s “Ten Year Action Plan to Eradicate Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human...
ACCEL Africa Interview Series: Uniting for a Common Goal -Fighting Child Labour Across Africa
Behind the scenes of the ACCEL Africa regional knowledge sharing workshop we have produced this exclusive interview series, where we had the privilege of sitting down with some of our project partners to discuss their contributions to the fight...