Two core activities of a Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) are to raise awareness amongst farming families on harm resulting from child labour; and to identify children in, or at risk of child labour through an active monitoring process. The agents who implement these activities are the primary point of contact between farmers, their children and the CLMRS. Many systems rely on locally based agents, often farmers themselves, to do this job.
This study aimed to better understand the dynamics of interactions between CLMRS agents and farmers when they have a personal relationship, for example because they are members of the same community, friends, or relatives. Qualitative data were collected in Ghana to examine how a personal relationship between the agent and the farming family affect:
- the farmer’s openness to talk about child labour and share other information about the household during a monitoring visit;
- the interaction between the agent and the children in the household during a monitoring visit;
- the effectiveness of awareness raising; and
- the agent’s existing relationships outside of the CLMRS context, and the general social dynamics within the community.
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