Eliminating child labour in West Africa and strengthening sub-regional cooperation through ECOWAS (ECOWAS II)
In the artisanal quarries in both south and central Benin, children commonly help their families collect, break, sort and transport granite blocks, stones and loads of sand. In some communities children as young as ten years old leave Benin unaccompanied by their families to work in stone quarries in southwest Nigeria. ILO-IPEC aims to initiate direct action programmes to combat the worst forms of child labour in the artisanal mining sector in Benin and Nigeria. Planned activities in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana will supplement direct interventions at the community levels that have been initiated in the WA ECOWAS I project.
The ECOWAS II project aims to contribute to ongoing efforts by national governments, employers and workers’ organizations, civil society and community based organizations as well as the Executive Secretariat and other institutions of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in West Africa.
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