6 May 2021
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 &...
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6 May 2021
This rapid desk-based study focused on local governments, given their increasing importance in ensuring improved access to Sanitation &...
26 April 2021
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.
19 March 2021
11 March 2021
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.
25 February 2021
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.
As African countries experience rapid urbanisation, there is a need to ensure that this process is well managed, and underpinned by...
17 February 2021
Published by: Sage Journals
This article is framed by the tension between a substantial universalising framework of global instruments on workers’ rights and...
11 February 2021
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has established a formal Memorandum of Understanding with the University for Development...
21 January 2021
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.