"I Must Work to Eat"

Author: Jo Becker

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13:

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"The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures and inadequate government assistance, is pushing children into exploitative and dangerous child labor. As their parents have lost jobs or income due to the pandemic and associated lockdowns, many children have entered the workforce to help their families survive. Many work long, grueling hours for little or no pay, often under hazardous conditions. Some report violence, harassment, and pay theft. [This report] is based on interviews conducted from January to March 2021 with 81 children, ages 8-17, in Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda.... The report examines the impact of the pandemic on children's rights, including their rights to education, to an adequate standard of living, and to protection from child labor, as well as government responses."--Page 4 of cover.

Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa
Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Loretta Elizabeth Bass

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9781588262868

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Bass's comprehensive, systematic study examines the complex factors framing child labor in Africa and offers a window on the lives of the child workers themselves.

Child Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
Child Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Fred M. Ssewamala

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-11-22

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 3030837076

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This book highlights the emerging research and policy development efforts to address child and adolescent behavioral health in Sub-Saharan Africa, where mental health policy is at an early stage and in need of context-specific attention to its successes and shortcomings. A diverse range of researchers, with expertise on relevant policy in both the region as a whole and country-specific contexts, including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda, outline theoretically informed, culturally appropriate, evidence-based, and youth- and family-focused service models. The first work of its kind with an exclusive focus on the understudied region of Sub-Saharan Africa, this text: Provides an overview of the current state of child and adolescent behavioral health in the region Evaluates empirical work on risk and protective factors influencing behavioral outcomes Highlights emerging intervention research and dialogue on what works to improve child and adolescent behavioral health Offers insight and strategies on how to advance child and adolescent behavioral health in policy, research, and practice Child Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards Evidence Generation and Policy Development is a unique reference that offers guidance for current and future policy-makers, researchers, practitioners, and students as they seek to invest and engage in the healthy development of a future generation.

Child Labor, School Attendance, and Indigenous Households: Evidence from Mexico
Child Labor, School Attendance, and Indigenous Households: Evidence from Mexico

Author: Rosangela Bando, Harry Anthony Patrinos, Rosangela Bando G., Luis Felipe López-Calva

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13:

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Abstract: "The authors use panel data for Mexico for 1997 to 1999 to test several assumptions regarding the impact of a conditional cash transfer program on child labor, emphasizing the differential impact on indigenous households. Using data from the conditional cash transfer program in Mexico--PROGRESA (OPORTUNIDADES)--they investigate the interaction between child labor and indigenous households. While indigenous children had a greater probability of working in 1997, this probability is reversed after treatment in the program. Indigenous children also had lower school attainment compared with Spanish-speaking or bilingual children. After the program, school attainment among indigenous children increased, reducing the gap. This paper--a product of the Education Sector Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region--is part of a larger effort in the region to evaluate human development programs"--World Bank web site.

Child Labor and the Transition Between School and Work
Child Labor and the Transition Between School and Work

Author: Randall K.Q. Akee

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2010-05-12

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0857240005

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Contains fresh knowledge to help understand the relationship between child labor and the transition between school and work. This title includes papers that offer insights and answers to issues such as: how to measure child labor; how child labor and schooling affect health; and, how children's time is allocated along gender lines.

African Children at Work
African Children at Work

Author: Gerd Spittler

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 3643902050

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Most children in Africa start working from a very early age, helping the family or earning wages. Should this work be abolished, tolerated, or encouraged? Such questions are the subject of much debate. International and national organizations, employers, parents, and children often have diverse opinions and put pressure in different directions. The contributions in this book offer intensive fieldwork and careful analysis of children's activities, considering childhood and family, work and play, work in rural and urban contexts, paths to learning, work and school, and children's rights. (Series: Reports on African Studies / Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung - Vol. 52)