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The first strategic objective of the NPECLC is to enhance the knowledge base on child labour in the cocoa sector. To pursue effective remediation, requires the need to know the prevalence rate and the nature of child labour in the sector. To this end, a pilot survey dubbed:

  1. Labour Practices in Cocoa Production in Ghana - 2006/2007.

          This is otherwise known as the Pilot Survey which covered six cocoa growing districts and the findings represented the 2007 Cocoa Certification

           Report of Ghana.

         The findings   also informed the institution of appropriate interventions in initial 11 districts.
         To know current trends and the impact of remediation in the districts, a second survey on cocoa labour practices in Ghana was conducted dubbed

     2.  Cocoa Labour Survey in Ghana - 2007/08
          This is also known as scale-up survey. This also represented the 2008 Cocoa Certification Report of Ghana. The objectives of the 2007 survey

           were to: 

  • identify sources, types and periods of labour needs in Ghana’s cocoa production;
  • document incidence or otherwise of the unconditional worst forms of child labour in the sector; and
  • document incidence or otherwise of forced adult labour in Ghana’s cocoa sector.
The survey covered all the six regions producing cocoa and 15 administrative districts in Ghana in which 60 percent of the country’s cocoa is produced. 

When Ghana submitted its Certification Report to the International Cocoa Verification Board
(ICVB), it was accepted. However, it was recommended that Ghana weight the result of the Cocoa Labour Survey to ascertain the national estimates. Ghana again has since August, 2009 submitted its report on the weighting exercise dubbed:

  1. Weighted Data on Cocoa Labour Survey in Ghana (Scale-up Study, 2007/2008)

 
 

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