Confronting Child Labour in Afghanistan

Report by Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), entitled “Confronting Child Labour in Afghanistan”. The report explores why children in Afghanistan work, focusing specifically on factors that influence decision-making at the household level. Drawing on findings from an in-depth, qualitative study of poor households that use child labour as well as those that do not, this paper looks beyond poverty to explore the range of social and cultural factors in household decision- making about child labour and considers their implications for policy.