$3M to measure progress in reducing child labor
in cocoa-growing communities in C�te d�Ivoire and Ghana
Funding Recipient: National Opinion
Research Center at the University of Chicago
Total Funding: $3 million
Purpose: Implement a project to assess and
measure progress in reducing child labor in cocoa-growing
communities of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
Location: Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
Scope: The four-year
project will undertake activities to evaluate and measure
progress to reduce child labor in the cocoa sectors of Côte
d’Ivoire and Ghana. The activities include a mapping of
stakeholder interventions to reduce child labor in the cocoa
sector, an assessment of the effectiveness of funded efforts to
reduce child labor, and a survey of incidence of child labor in
cocoa-producing areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana in the
2018-2019 growing season.
ILAB leads the U.S. government’s efforts to ensure that workers
around the world are treated fairly and are able to share in
the benefits of the global economy. To these ends, ILAB has
provided funding for more than 290 projects in more than 90
countries to combat the worst forms of child labor by assisting
vulnerable children and their families. More information is
available at http://www.dol.gov/ilab/.
ILAB News Brief: [12/08/2015]
Contact Name: Egan Reich
Phone Number: (202) 693-4960
Email: Reich.Egan@dol.gov
Release Number: 15-2364-NAT