Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture (ACHA)
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Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture (ACHA) is a seven year, DFID-funded research programme that started in January 2020. 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.
ACHA is a collaborative programme led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK and is directed by Professor Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Dr James Sumberg. Partners include: the University of Ghana, Legon, the University of Development Studies, Tamale, African Rights Initiative International, the University of Sussex, the University of Bath, the University of Bristol, Fairtrade Foundation ,ISEAL Alliance, Rainforest Alliance, The Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab, University at Buffalo, The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) and The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH).
Email: acha-enquiries@ids.ac.uk for more information.
Website: Community Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture
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Children’s Work in African Agriculture: The Harmful and the Harmless
(Bristol University Press, 2023-04-28)Millions of children throughout Africa undertake many forms of farm and domestic work. Some of this work is for wages, some is on their family’s own small plots and some is forced and/or harmful. This book examines ... -
The Challenges of Child Labour Research: Data Challenges and Opportunities
(IDS, 2021-05-21)This Rapid Review is an attempt to instigate a broader discussion on child labour by considering the various dimensions and angles associated with the phenomenon beyond the straitjacket definitions provided in most ... -
Children’s Work in West African Cocoa Production: Drivers, Contestations and Critical Reflections
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-04-26)Cocoa farming in West Africa has a long history of relying on family labour, including children’s labour. Increasingly, global concern is voiced about the hazardous nature of children’s work, without considering how it ... -
Education and Work: Children’s Lives in Rural Sub‑Saharan Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-04-19)This paper proposes a dynamic conceptual framework – the edu-workscape – for understanding how rural children in sub-Saharan Africa navigate three key gendered social arenas: the household, school and workplaces. Focusing ... -
Policies and Politics Around Children’s Work in Ghana
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-03-11)This paper explores policy and legislation aimed at preventing, regulating, and abolishing harmful children’s work in Ghana, and the political debates and controversies surrounding these mechanisms. The paper critically ... -
Disabled Children and Work: An Overview of a Neglected Topic with a Specific Focus on Ghana
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-25)This paper provides an overview of issues related to disabled children and work. This is a very unexplored topic and the literature is scant, so the paper first provides an overview of some key relevant background information ... -
Value Chain Governance: Entrance Points for Interventions to Address Children’s Harmful Work in Agriculture
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01-21)This paper presents different types of governance mechanisms that can be present in a specific value chain and explores how these can be used or need to be modified in view of intentions to reduce children’s harmful work. ... -
Children’s Harmful Work in Ghana’s Lake Volta Fisheries: Research Needed to Move Beyond Discourses of Child Trafficking
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12-14)Children work throughout the Lake Volta fisheries value chain. It is commonly assumed most have been trafficked. Research and advocacy has focused on dangers to young boys harvesting fish, and poverty as a driver, precluding ... -
Theorising ‘Harm’ in Relation to Children’s Work
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-17)A central and implicit issue that shapes the present political and institutional consensus surrounding child labour is the notion of harm. Although efforts to address children’s work rest firmly on assumptions about what ... -
Understanding Children’s Harmful Work: A Review of the Methodological Landscape
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-06)Children’s engagement with work has been widely researched using a wide variety of methods. However, the extent to which such methods and their combination provides insight into forms of children’s harmful work (CHW) is ... -
Forms, Prevalence and Drivers of Children’s Work and Children’s Harmful Work in Shallot Production on the Keta Peninsula, South-Eastern Ghana
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-06)This paper synthesises the available literature on the forms, prevalence and drivers of children’s work, and evidence of harm associated with children’s work in shallot production on the Keta Peninsula, Ghana. What emerges ... -
Children's work in African agriculture: Time for a rethink
(Outlook on Agrigulture, 2020-06-10)This article outlines a tension that plays itself out in rural areas throughout Africa. On the one hand, it is recognized that children throughout the world engage in economic activity, and this is particularly so in rural ... -
Living Wage, Living Income, and Child Labour-Free Zones: Arguments and Implications for Children’s Work
(IDS, 2020-05-26)Of the 736 million people living in extreme poverty worldwide, about 80 per cent live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for survival. Many of these are smallholder farmers who receive a relatively small income for ... -
Understanding Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture: Points of Departure
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-04)This paper steps back from dominant discourses around child labour, and examines how a reframing of children’s involvement in African agriculture, from child labour to children’s work, might enhance understanding of the ...
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