Peer-reviewed article
Concepts, Causes and Institutional Response to Child Labour in Ghana: A SocioEconomic Review
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Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This paper is a desktop review of existing literature on the concepts, causes and institutional responses to child labour in Ghana. It draws on secondary data only. It reports that child labour is linked to problems such as frequent illness, attempted rape and financial difficulty. It recommends that stakeholders keep working to end child labour, that campaigns against it be increased, and that single parents, especially women, be supported with training. It also recommends policies to raise school enrolment and attendance.
Key points
- The paper is a desktop review based on secondary data and related literature.
- Challenges linked to child labour include frequent illness, attempts of rape and financial difficulty.
- The media, CHRAJ, community-based organisations and traditional rulers should increase campaigns and education against child labour and publicise its criminal nature.
- Single parents in local communities, especially women, should receive free vocational and financial management training so they can pay for their children's education.
- Government and stakeholders should adopt policies that promote classroom enrolment, attendance and participation.
Limitations
This is a desktop review of secondary sources, so it presents no new data and the abstract gives no figures or details of which studies were reviewed. It does not test whether any intervention or policy reduces child labour.
Abstract
This paper is written by authors to primarily look at ‘concepts, causes and institutional response to child labour in Ghana’. Methodologically, this paper adopted a desktop review approach which relied its sources of information mainly from secondary data and related literatures on the subject. The paper revealed that, some of the challenges of child labour are frequent illness, attempts of rape, financial difficulty and many others. It is therefore concluded that, stakeholders should continue their participation in eradicating child labour and their support, increasing enrollment and classroom attendance participation. It was in agreement that the media and other concern bodies like the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and traditional rulers should increase campaign and education against child labour and intensified publicity of the criminal nature of child labour. It is strongly recommended that single parents in local communities especially women should be empowered to financially and vocationally through free vocational and financial management training to provide enough avenues for single parent (women) to cater for their children’s education. Government and stakeholders should implement policies aimed at promoting classroom enrollment, classroom attendance and classroom participation. If these recommendations given are feasibly implemented, searching for every day in African and Ghanaian childhoods would be reduced if not curbed.