Ghana

Ghana: Legislation on child labour

  1. ILO Child Labour Conventions No. 138 and No. 182

  2. UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and Optional Protocols

  3. National legislation related to child labour

Benin: Policies on child labour

  1. ILO Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP)

  2. Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)

  3. United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF)

  4. Global Partnership for Education (GPE)

Ghana: ILO projects on child labour

  1. Multi Partner Fund to step up the fight against child labour and forced labour

    1 January 2021 - 31 December 2030, Budget: US$ 13,000,000 - GLO/20/41/MUL

    The pooled-funded mechanism of the 8.7 Accelerator Lab

  2. Convening Actors to Develop and Implement Strategies to Reduce Child Labour and Improve Working Conditions in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (CARING GOLD MINING PROJECT)

    11 December 2015 - 10 October 2019, Ghana

    Funded by the United States Department of Labor (USDOL), the four-year project will address child labour, decent work deficits and working conditions in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in the Ghana, specifically in Ashanti and Western regions in two districts-Adansi-North District and Aowin Municipal respectively.

  3. Convening Stakeholders to Develop and Implement Strategies to Reduce Child Labor and Improve Working Conditions in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (CARING Gold Mining) Project

    11 December 2015 - 10 April 2019, Budget: US$ 5,000,000 - GLO/15/30/USA, GHA/16/50/USA, PHL/16/50/USA, , GLO/16/52/USA

  4. Towards child labour free cocoa growing communities (CCP) Project

    31 December 2010 - 31 March 2015, Budget: US$ 1,000,000 - RAF/10/54/USA

  5. Eliminating child labour in West Africa and strengthening sub-regional cooperation through ECOWAS (ECOWAS II) Project

    31 December 2010 - 30 April 2014, Budget: US$ 5,000,000 - RAF/10/53/USA

  6. Eliminating child labour in West Africa and strengthening sub-regional cooperation through ECOWAS (ECOWAS I) Project

    30 September 2009 - 30 April 2014, Budget: US$ 7,950,000 - RAF/09/51/USA