CUBIC Impact Brief: SOURIRE: Village Social Contracts & Child Labor in Cocoa

CUBIC partnered with Dr Amanda Berlan from the University of Leicester,  Save the Children Côte d’Ivoire and Save the Children Switzerland to implement and evaluate the Village Social Contract (VSC) intervention, a community-based intervention aimed at reducing children’s engagement in hazardous tasks on coca farms and improving educational outcomes, using a rigorous cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) to generate causal evidence. The intervention had been previously piloted in 10 villages under a separate project and with a different funder, and evaluated using a before/after comparison, showing positive effects on children’s participation in hazardous tasks.