Named programmes acting against child labour: who leads and funds each, where it works, when it ran and what it reports. A result is the programme’s own figure unless an evaluator is named.
Launched in Abuja on 16 September 2026 with ILO support. The ILO reports that this edition puts more weight on turning national commitments into action for children, families and communities.
Source: ILO, 14 October 2026 · read 15 October 2026
Accelerating action for the elimination of child labour in supply chains in Africa. The ILO sets three aims: better laws and enforcement on child labour in global supply chains, solutions to its root causes taken up by institutions, and those solutions scaled up through partnerships and financing. The phase runs from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2028.
In March 2026 it trained 52 members of county co-operative departments, unions and partners in four Kenyan counties, as reported by Co-operative News.
Source: ILO · Co-operative News, 21 April 2026 · read 15 October 2026
Countries that commit to accelerate action on SDG target 8.7 under the Alliance 8.7 Pathfinder Strategy of 2018. The ILO counted 27 in 2024 and noted that 9 of Africa’s 54 countries had joined by January 2025.
Source: ILO, 11 September 2024 · FAO, 17 April 2026 · read 15 October 2026
Community systems that identify children in child labour in cocoa-growing households and arrange support for them. ICI has published core criteria setting minimum standards for how the systems are designed and run, with a manual and a self-assessment tool.
ICI reports that by September 2025 its members’ systems covered 1.33 million households, and that 11 per cent of the children covered were found in child labour. These are ICI’s own figures.
Source: International Cocoa Initiative, 20 July 2026 · ICI Annual Report 2025 · read 15 October 2026
Helps countries turn global commitments on child labour into action in agriculture, where most child labour is found. It held its first consultations with Pathfinder Countries in March 2026, with 21 countries across Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
Source: FAO, 17 April 2026 · read 15 October 2026
A platform of 31 governments and representatives of employers and workers that aims to eliminate child labour in the region by 2030. The ILO’s GALAB project supports it.
Source: ILO, January 2025 · read 15 October 2026
A project against child labour and forced labour in the cotton, textile and garment value chains of four producing countries. FAO records it as closed on 31 January 2023.
A $6.95 million award announced in February 2024 to improve information-sharing between researchers and decision makers on child labour and forced labour. No 2025 or 2026 source on its status was found.
Source: US Department of Labor, 28 February 2024 · read 15 October 2026
The main component of the ILO’s 8.7 Accelerator Lab, on child labour and forced labour, funded by the US Department of Labor. DOL announced a $10 million first award in January 2022; an ILO brochure of January 2025 gives a total budget of $15 million. No source read states whether it continued after the US grant cancellations of 2025.
Source: ILO, January 2025 · US Department of Labor, 4 January 2022 · read 15 October 2026
Catalyzing civil society to accelerate progress against child labour: a $4 million award announced by the US Department of Labor in January 2022, to strengthen civil-society action at national, regional and local level. No 2025 or 2026 source on its status was found.
Source: US Department of Labor, 4 January 2022 · read 15 October 2026
A partnership launched in 2022 to improve access to education for 5 million children by 2027, through teacher training and school building, addressing what it calls a root cause of child labour in cocoa-growing regions. The partners committed CHF 69 million at launch. No 2025 or 2026 status source was found.
Source: Jacobs Foundation, 14 June 2022 · read 15 October 2026
A dialogue between the EU, producing governments, industry and civil society on child labour and child trafficking, deforestation and farmer incomes in cocoa. In June 2022 the parties committed to time-bound actions. The Commission’s page does not state a current status.
Source: European Commission · read 15 October 2026
In 2001 the chocolate and cocoa industry signed a protocol committing to grow and process cocoa in line with ILO Convention 182. In 2010 the two governments, the US Department of Labor and industry signed a Framework of Action, with a $10 million DOL grant. No current status source was found.
Source: US Department of Labor, 13 September 2010 · ConfectioneryNews, 19 October 2020 · read 15 October 2026
A membership workstream of companies under the UN Global Compact Labour Working Group, run with the ILO, on child labour in supply chains. No 2025 or 2026 status source was found.
Source: ILO · read 15 October 2026
A Dutch government fund whose objective, as the EU’s due-diligence navigator records it, is to address child-labour risks in international supply chains.
Source: European Commission · read 15 October 2026
Fairtrade’s system for finding and remediating child labour through its small-producer organisations, with young people taking part. A 2021 study compared it with internal control systems in four countries.
Source: Fairtrade International, December 2021 · read 15 October 2026