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Wishing you all the best for 2024
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No Child Should Be Left Behind – video
160 million children worldwide are still working. Most of these children work at home, in agriculture or do other forms of informal work. They are often invisible. While they have rights and should be in school instead. All children should be included in efforts to eliminate child labour.
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S’attaquer aux inégalités sociales et de genre dans les programmes sur le travail des enfants
Afin de renforcer l’approche transformatrice de genre dans le cadre du programme WNCB, une évaluation de genre a été commandée pour chacun des 6 pays.
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Addressing gender and social inequalities in child labour programming
In order to strengthen WNCB’s Gender Transformative approach within the programme, a gender assessment was commissioned for each of the 6 countries.
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WNCB Theory of Change
According to most recent estimates 152 million children are victims of child labour, with almost half of them, 73 million, working in hazardous child labour. Although child labour has declined over the past 15 years, progress has dwindled during the last 4 years. Significant efforts will need to be made in order to reach the…
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Côte d’Ivoire: Bridge classes to formal education for 261 children
WNCB partner Save the Children in Côte d’Ivoire has set up bridge classes for 261 children (148 girls and 113 boys) in eight villages in the departments of Guéyo, Buyo and Soubré for the 2020 – 2021 school year. In the beginning of September 2021, a mission to assess children’s knowledge found that they had…
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Côte d’Ivoire: U-Report and the cocoa companies in Soubre
On July 28 2021, a capacity building workshop was held for 25 members of the U-Report community in Soubré, on the rights of the child in relation to business activities. This capacity building aimed to support actions to prevent and combat child labour in cocoa-producing areas. The young people of…
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Côte d’Ivoire: teachers play important role in fight against child labour
In Côte d’Ivoire, the percentage of children aged 5-17 years who carry out activities classified as child labour is 31.3%. Data show that all geographical areas of Côte d’Ivoire are affected by child labour. However, the prevalence of child labour remains highest in the north and west of the country. Nearly 50% of the population…
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COVID-19 crisis in the Work: No Child’s Business programme
The COVID-19 pandemic has a large impact on WNCB’s target population and the way we will implement our programme. Through this initial assessment with our country teams it is now becoming clear that next to the catastrophic health crisis, the mitigating actions to the pandemic in the various contexts have hugely affected our local communities…
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Programme brochure
The impact that the Alliance aims to achieve with this programme is that children and youth are free from child labour and enjoy their rights to quality education and (future) decent work.