ACCEL Africa - Egypt

Egypt’s cotton-growing is widely known to be a high risk activity with low margins of profit for many producers, as it is greatly affected by climatic conditions and subject to volatility of international cotton prices.

Child labour - including worst forms of child labour - is common in cotton production: reportedly, the sector employs millions of children each year to cultivate, harvest and process it.

Through an integrated approach, the project seeks to promote enhanced national legislation and policies, to address the basic needs and rights of children engaged or at risk of child labour. It also aims to adopt an integrated area based approach, embedded in a value chain approach including cooperation with local industry and international buyers to achieve better compliance with international labour standards and reach more international market share for Egypt

Latest

  1. Uniting Against Child Labour: A Celebration of Progress and Vision for a Future Free of Child Exploitation in Egypt

    12 July 2023

  2. ACCEL Africa results in Egypt

    03 July 2023

    The brief provides a description of the most relevant results of the ACCEL Africa project implementation in Egypt.

  3. Child labour monitoring systems in the MENA region: Good practices, challenges and recommendations for a child labour monitoring system in Egypt - A desk review

    03 July 2023

    The report analyses good CLMS practices in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and their successes and challenges, providing a basis for the establishment of a national Child Labour Monitoring System in Egypt.

  4. Knowledge-needs assessment reveals urgent action is needed to continue to combat child labour in Egypt and highlighted partnership opportunities within accel Africa

    02 February 2023

    A comprehensive knowledge needs assessment conducted by ACCEL Africa in Egypt revealed a series of urgent actions needed to combat child labour in the country.

  5. ILO supports Egypt's fifth national steering committee meeting on worst forms of child labour

    02 February 2023

    Implementing the National Action Plan (NAP) and full coordination with the ILO in its mid-term evaluation is essential as it helps identify strengths and weaknesses with recommendations that contribute to better planning of future activities, Mrs. Amal Abdel Mawgoud, International relations Undersecretary, representing His Excellency Mr. Hassan Shehata, Minister of Manpower.