Nigeria: Resources
2023
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News
Breaking the Cycle of Child Labour: ILO-ACCEL Africa Project Renovates School and Enrolls 110 Children at Risk of Child Labour in Nigeria's Oke Agunla Community
13 March 2023
With the renovation of six classrooms and eight toilet facilities in the school premises, the Head Teacher of the school disclosed that the enrolment figure of the school has already increased.
2022
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Produce Responsibly, ILO Urges Businesses in Nigeria as NECA Launches Child Labour Guidance Tool
Photo-ILO and NECA Launch Child Labour Guidance Tool for Businesses in Nigeria
03 November 2022
The newly launched Child Labour Guidance Tool for Businesses in Nigeria is an addition to concerted efforts by the ILO, tripartite and social partners through the Dutch Government funded ACCEL Africa Project, to improve and enforce legal structures, while providing innovative and evidence based solutions to address the root causes of child labour in supply chains.
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Produce Responsibly, ILO Urges Businesses in Nigeria as NECA Launches Child Labour Guidance Tool
Photo-‘Collaboration is Nigeria’s Competitive Advantage over Child Labour’ - ECOWAS
03 November 2022
Following the submission of the Nigeria Government by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment in 2021, the ECOWAS Commission is evaluating Nigeria's response to the global child labour crisis, with a view to sharing knowledge and implementing best practices to eliminate the scourge as required by Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7.
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News
‘Collaboration is Nigeria’s Competitive Advantage over Child Labour’ - ECOWAS
03 November 2022
Following the submission of the Nigeria Government by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment in 2021, the ECOWAS Commission is evaluating Nigeria's response to the global child labour crisis, with a view to sharing knowledge and implementing best practices to eliminate the scourge as required by Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7.
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Produce Responsibly, ILO Urges Businesses in Nigeria as NECA Launches Child Labour Guidance Tool
ILO and NECA Launch Child Labour Guidance Tool for Businesses in Nigeria
03 November 2022
The newly launched Child Labour Guidance Tool for Businesses in Nigeria is an addition to concerted efforts by the ILO, tripartite and social partners through the Dutch Government funded ACCEL Africa Project, to improve and enforce legal structures, while providing innovative and evidence based solutions to address the root causes of child labour in supply chains.
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News
ILO Empowers 431 Trainees in Ondo and Osun States and hands over Renovated School to Community
09 September 2022
To sustain its interventions on the elimination of child labour, the ACCEL Africa Project in Nigeria has provided training, classroom renovation and livelihood support to parents, guardians, and children within the legal working age in Project communities within Ondo and Osun States.
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Nigeria's National Steering Committee on the Elimination of Child Labour Leads Walk for the Nigerian Child.
01 August 2022
To commemorate the 2022 World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL), Nigeria’s vanguard in the fight to eliminate the scourge and achieve SDG Target 8.7- the National Steering Committee on the Elimination of Child Labour (NSCCL) led stakeholders on a “Walk for the Nigerian Child” through the busy Abuja Central Business District (CBD) to sensitize the urban public on the need for: child protection, collective responsibility, and justice for victims.
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News
Child Labour: Nigeria Intensifies Collaborations to Achieve SDG Target 8.7
01 August 2022
In the global coordinated campaign to end all forms of child labour and forced labour, Nigeria, a pathfinder country intensifies efforts to rid its Artisanal Gold Mining (ASGM) and Cocoa value chains of the scourge, in line with the country's National Action Plan validated and adapted through the International Labour Organization’s Dutch funded ACCEL Africa Project.
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Nigeria organizes a media engagement event to commemorate the 2022 World Day Against Child Labour.
01 August 2022
In observance of the 2022 World Day Against Child Labour, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands have organised a media engagement on the theme, "Universal Social Protection To End Child Labour".
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Vacancy notice
Recruitment of a consultant to prepare a report on good practices identified in the implementation of the ACCEL Africa Project
25 April 2022
The main objective of this work is to develop a report to capitalize and document good practices in the fight against child labour being emerged under the ACCEL Africa project.Within the frame of this work, one important first step for the consultant is to propose the criteria of good practices. The consultant should then propose how the good practices will be selected, studied, documented and shared.