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The Challenges of Child Labour Research: Data Challenges and Opportunities
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This Rapid Review is an attempt to instigate a broader discussion on child labour by considering the various dimensions and angles associated with the phenomenon beyond the straitjacket definitions provided in most reports.
Local Government Leadership for Sanitation and Hygiene in West Africa
This rapid desk-based study focused on local governments, given their increasing importance in ensuring improved access to Sanitation &...
Children’s Work in West African Cocoa Production: Drivers, Contestations and Critical Reflections
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Cocoa farming in West Africa has a long history of relying on family labour, including children’s labour. Increasingly, global concern is voiced about the hazardous nature of children’s work, without considering how it contributes to their social development.
Policies and Politics Around Children’s Work in Ghana
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper explores policy and legislation aimed at preventing, regulating, and abolishing harmful children’s work in Ghana, and the political debates and controversies surrounding these mechanisms. The paper critically interrogates the successes and challenges of previous and current policies and interventions.
Disabled Children and Work: An Overview of a Neglected Topic with a Specific Focus on Ghana
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper provides an overview of issues related to disabled children and work. It reviews the limited literature on the topic and provides some reflections on the possible involvement of disabled children in work, their routes into work, its potential causes and consequences.
Top down or bottom up? Urban development in Africa and China
As African countries experience rapid urbanisation, there is a need to ensure that this process is well managed, and underpinned by...
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...
IDS partners with Ghana’s University for Development Studies
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has established a formal Memorandum of Understanding with the University for Development...