Education and Work: Children’s Lives in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

The aim of the programme is to build evidence on:• the forms, drivers, and experiences of children 's harmful work in African agriculture; and • interventions that are effective in preventing harm that arises in the course of children's work. It is currently assumed that the majority of children's work in Africa is within the agricultural sector. However, the evidence base is very poor in regard to: the prevalence of children's harmful work in African agriculture; the distribution of children's harmful work across different agricultural value chains, farming systems and agro-ecologies; the effects of different types of value chains and models of value chain coordination on the prevalence of harmful children's work; and the efficacy of different interventions to address harmful children's work.