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These guidelines are intended to help researchers and organizations, including national statistics offices, to design and implement studies and data collection tools that are ethically sound and appropriate to collect information about child labour. Children and young people are routinely asked about aspects of their lives, including work. Children are interviewed in workplaces, in their households and while in the care of service providers. In any of these situations, interviewing children about their lives and work raises ethical and safety questions for children themselves, for parents or

This analysis provides an overview of relevant national legislation and policies aiming to protect children from child labour in Nigeria. It includes comparisons and linkages with international norms and standards on child labour, with a focus on those most applicable to child labour in agriculture and the cocoa sector. The analysis builds on the national constitution, existing laws and conventions ratified in the country, on existing good practice, and on recent countrywide studies of child labour to propose a list of hazardous activities, which could be included in surveys and tools used to

This meta-analysis includes a comprehensive set of interventions to provide a quantitative assessment of their impact on child labour. The research reviewed 614 studies on child labour and forced labour identified by the ILO's "Research to Action" (RTA) project and an additional 40 recent studies to obtain a sample of 41 randomized and quasi-experimental impact evaluations suitable for the meta-analysis. As several outcomes and interventions are reported in these studies, 131 effect-size estimates were collected; of these, 86 refer to the child’s probability of engaging in any type of activity

This report places child labour in the context of a broader body of research on the detrimental effects of adverse childhood experiences on child development. It explores the multiple factors affecting the severity of child labour - ie. the extent to which child labour causes (irreversible) harm - and discusses the implications. Drawing on over 150 empirical studies, the study covers: How child labour can cause harm An operational definition of the severity of child labour for the cocoa sector An overview of the practical implications for efforts to prevent and address child labour in the

This report provides an overview of relevant national legislation and policies aiming to protect children from child labour in Ethiopia. It includes comparisons with international norms and standards on child labour, with a focus on those most applicable to child labour in agriculture and the coffee sector. In the absence of a national hazardous activity framework, the report draws on existing good practice and recent countrywide studies of child labour to propose a list of hazardous activities, which could be included in surveys to assess the prevalence of child labour in coffee growing areas