Who runs and funds the work against child labour, and where.
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.
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Learn moreHelps 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.
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Learn moreCountries 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.
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Learn moreCatalyzing 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.
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Learn moreA country risk tool for companies, open only to members of the Centre’s CRIB Working Group of brands and retailers. The Centre says each country profile gives the drivers of child labour risk, guidance on where due diligence is most needed, and practical actions, resources and initiatives. It describes the index as built on 34 indicators across education, poverty, governance, labour markets and youth vulnerability. At launch it held profiles for 10 sourcing countries, with more to be added monthly.
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Learn moreA 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.
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Learn moreA programme on child labour linked to artisanal and small-scale mining of cobalt and copper, around Kolwezi. The Centre runs it as an association with six local civil-society organisations. Its workstreams, as the Centre lists them, are research and risk assessment, due diligence support for companies, training for local actors, remediation and case management, work and training for out-of-school youth, and strengthening the local child-protection system.
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Learn moreA 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.
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Learn moreA 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.
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Learn moreA 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.
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Learn moreFairtrade’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.
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Learn moreA Dutch government fund whose objective, as the EU’s due-diligence navigator records it, is to address child-labour risks in international supply chains.
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Learn moreThe 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.
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Learn moreIn 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.
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Learn moreCommunity 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.
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Learn moreLaunched 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.
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Learn moreA $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.
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Learn moreA 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.
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