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
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