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Breaking Out of the Policy Enclave Approach to Child Labour in sub-Saharan African Agriculture

Published by: Sage Journals

This article is framed by the tension between a substantial universalising framework of global instruments on workers’ rights and...

Value Chain Governance: Entrance Points for Interventions to Address Children’s Harmful Work in Agriculture

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This paper presents different types of governance mechanisms that can be present in a specific value chain and explores how these can be used or need to be modified in view of intentions to reduce children’s harmful work.

Urban Social Assistance: Evidence, Challenges and the Way Forward, with Application to Ghana

Motivation Urban areas are growing as is urban poverty, yet few countries have developed comprehensive programmes for social assistance...

Children’s Harmful Work in Ghana’s Lake Volta Fisheries: Research Needed to Move Beyond Discourses of Child Trafficking

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Children work throughout the Lake Volta fisheries value chain. It is commonly assumed most have been trafficked. Research and advocacy has focused on dangers to young boys harvesting fish, and poverty as a driver, precluding attention to harms experienced by non-trafficked children, girls’ experiences and work-education dynamics. More work is needed on the proportions of children who fish and perform harmful work; structural, ecological and historical contexts; young people’s agency in pursuing fishing work; and why attention to trafficking dominates.