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Eliminating hazardous child labour and occupational safety, health and environmental risks: A manual for agents of change in cocoa communities in Ghana
This Manual was produced by the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) in collaboration with the General Agricultural Workers' Union (GAWU of GTUC) to serve as an essential training tool for workers in the rural commun
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The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes on Household Work Decisions in Ghana: WIDER Working Paper 2014/116
A cash transfer programme ‘Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty’ has been implemented with the aim of addressing poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households’ supply of labo
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Children's Rights in the Digital Age: A download from children around the world
Undertaken with the aim of communicating children’s views at the Day of General Discussion on children’s rights in the digital age, which took place on 12 September 2014, this project was a joint effort between the Young and Well Cooperative Research Cent
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Born Equal: How reducing inequality could give our children a better future
Inequality in developing countries is twice as high among children as among the general population, as this report reveals, with new quantitative analysis of 32 countries. Born Equal assesses the effects of inequality on child development. Drawing on eigh
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UNICEF Briefing paper on Children working in West and Central Africa
This briefing paper focuses on children in the Sahelian countries, who are enrolled in Qur’anic schools and beg as part of this education. In this region, Islamic education predates colonization and the establishment of mission and secular state schools.
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Female Genital Mutilation in Africa: Promising actions and persisting challenges
Understanding how and why harmful cultural and traditional practices such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) persist continues to enthuse many of the human rights actors. Often associated with maintaining cultural identity and preventing moral decline of
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Internal Displacement in West Africa: A Snapshot
This paper offers an overview of internal displacement in the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) region—which consists of 15 countries—including displacement resulting from conflict, generalized violence and human rights violations; natura
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UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change 2011
The objective of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting: Accelerating Change is to contribute to the abandonment of FGM/C in 17 African countries within a generation. The programme’s holistic, cross-border approach is fo
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6 month Newsletter. Creating a step change in the monitoring and evaluation of child participation
6-month Newsletter: Creating a step change in the monitoring and evaluation of child participation. In response to the need to develop better approaches to monitoring and evaluating children’s participation, a pilot project has been launched by Save the C
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Save the Children Presentation on Learning to Read Overview: Major Issues, Overall Challenges
Save the Children's presentation at the All Children Reading Workshop, Kigali, Rwanda, in March 2012. It reviews the major issues and overall challenges to learning to read, including the necessary reading skills, active learning methodologies, mother ton
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The power of making it simple: A Government Guide To Developing Citizens Budgets
Governments can encourage citizen participation by creating conditions that enable them to participate in a meaningful way. A very important one of these conditions is that all citizens have ready access to government information. "Access" means not simpl
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What do Youth Savers Want? Results from Market Research in Four Countries
"What youth want " was the question the YouthSave project set out to answer through four market studies involving almost 2500 (primarily youth) respondents in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, and Nepal. The research shows that, contrary to widespread adult percept