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This four-paper series synthesizes ILO-IPEC's experience in West Africa in 2007, during the "West African Cocoa and Commercial Agriculture Project to Combat Hazardous and Exploitive Child Labour".

The 2007 survey aimed to identify sources, types and periods of labour needs in Ghana's cocoa production; to document cases of the unconditional worst forms of child labour in cocoa production; and to document incidence of forced adult labour in the sector.

This study has a two-fold purpose: to examine the existing quality of education in a sample of cocoa-growing communities including International Cocoa Initiative pilot communities, and to review existing quality education initiatives by other institutions and organizations, with a view to potential replication and/or adaptation in cocoa-growing communities.

This comprehensive literature review of child labour summarises the literature on child time allocation, the types of work children participate in, the impact of work on schooling, health, and externalities associated with child work.

This paper is the first in a series published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) that synthesizes the knowledge and experience acquired from implementation of the West African Cocoa and Commercial Agriculture Project to Combat Hazardous and Exploitive Child Labour (WACAP).