NORC Final Report: Assessing Progress in Reducing Child Labor in Cocoa Growing Areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.
The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) at the U.S. Department of Labor tasked NORC to conduct a sectorally-representative survey during the 2018-19 cocoa harvest season in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, covering the preceding 12-month reference period, to develop population estimates for the prevalence of working children, child labor, and the worst forms of child labor in agriculture, including disaggregated estimates for the cocoa sector, in the cocoa growing areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, and then use those estimates to measure percent change in the prevalence of child labor and hazardous child labor compared to the 2008-09 and 2013-14 estimates. In addition, NORC conducted an assessment of the relative effectiveness of projects contributing to reduced child labor and the worst forms of child labor in Côte d’ Ivoire and Ghana. The assessment takes stock of overall effectiveness, achievements, lessons learned, and outcomes (anticipated and unanticipated) of funded interventions and efforts related to the reduction of child labor and the worst forms of child labor in the two countries.