ACCEL Africa - Malawi
Some 1.16 million children or 20.9 per cent are in-volved in hazardous work.
Child labour is present in almost all sectors, including agriculture, fishing, manufacturing, mining, services and construction.
Agriculture and related sub-sectors alone account for 66.2 per cent of children engaged in hazardous work. In Malawi, this project will focus on the elimination of child labour in the tea and coffee supply chains.
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Press release
International Labour Organization (ILO) and Malawi Congress of Trade Unions partner for trade union action to accelerate the elimination of child labour
02 December 2021
“As MCTU, we look forward to leveraging this partnership to further enhance our ongoing efforts to build the capacity of our affiliated trade unions, especially those representing workers in the formal and informal sectors, as well as smallholder trusts, associations, and cooperatives, in the targeted tea and coffee-growing communities to identify and address child labour and its root causes,” MCTU Secretary General Mr. Madalitso Njolomole.
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Vacancy notice
Terms of Reference-Recruitment of a consultant for the development of a Child Labour Training Package for Businesses
24 November 2021
This assignment aims as a General Objective to produce a training tool to strengthen the capacity of businesses to apply the ILO-IOE guidance tool in their child labour due diligence efforts. The training tool will provide specific examples, practical checklists, concrete case studies and scenarios that will foster a more practical implementation of the ILO-IOE guidelines.
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Document
Call for Proposals – ACCEL Africa Project
14 October 2021
Recruitment of a Local Non-Profit Organization to implement technical vocation skills training programs for youth of a legal working age and livelihood and economic empowerment activities for workers at lower tiers of coffee supply chain.
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Document
Call for Proposals – ACCEL Africa Project
14 October 2021
Recruitment of a of a Local Non-Profit Organization to implement technical vocation skills training programs for youth of a legal working age, livelihood, and economic empowerment activities for workers at lower tiers of tea supply chain
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Article
International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) partner to eliminate child labour through school improvements and access to education
01 October 2021
This partnership comes at a critical time, as COVID-19 has contributed to rising rates of school dropouts, including because of the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, as well as periodic school closures.
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Press release
Immediate steps are needed to avoid falling further behind on fighting child labour
16 June 2021
“We are empowering our district and regional labour officers to ensure that they are going in all sectors to smoke out child labour and forced labour. We are doing this together with other stakeholders to ensure effective inspections,” Malawi Deputy Minister of Labour, Ms. Vera Kamtukule.
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Article
Malawian Children Trafficked to Mozambique in Search of Jobs
12 June 2021
This article uncovers a new form of exploitation where some families in Malawi are giving away their children to herd animals and work in crop fields in Mozambique at the expense of their right to education.
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Article
Journalists have a key role to play in the collective effort to eliminate child labour
04 June 2021
Through the Accel Africa Reporting on child labour in Africa course, learners are introduced to a number of different issues, including international labour standards, ethical reporting of child-related information, or collecting testimonies from vulnerable sources of information. They also learn about the relevant context of child labour in agricultural supply chains, such as in the tobacco, cotton or cocoa industries.
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Vacancy notice
Terms of Reference for the recruitment of a junior consultant in Monitoring -Evaluation and Knowledge Management for ACCEL Africa project
14 May 2021
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is seeking a junior consultant in Monitoring -Evaluation and Knowledge Management for ACCEL Africa project. For more information on the evaluation and the profile required for application, please see the attached Terms of Reference. Deadline for submission of applications: June 28th, 2021 at 4:00 pm GMT. Applicants interested in this service should provide the following information: - A statement describing how the applicant's skills, qualifications, and experience are relevant to the qualifications required for this position. - An updated CV, - Two recent references available including email and phone number. - A financial offer including the daily rate requested in USD and the daily rate received for similar work in the last two years. - Date of availability. Please contact Moukaïla Amadou (amadoum@ilo.org), copy to Steve Meledje (meledje@ilo.org ) for any question related to this call for tender or to send us your application.
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Vacancy notice
Terms of Reference for the recruitment of and individual national consultant to conduct an initial survey in ACCEL Africa project beneficiary communities in Malawi
05 May 2021
The International Labour Office (ILO) is seeking a national consultant evaluator to conduct an initial survey in the beneficiary communities of the ACCEL Africa project in Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda. For more information on the evaluation and the profile required for application, please see the attached Terms of Reference. The Evaluation period requested is May-June 2021 and the Deadline for submission of applications: May 15, 2021
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Publication
Ten Year Action Plan on the Eradication of Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery In Africa (2020-2030): Agenda 2063-SDG Target 8.7
06 April 2021
The Action Plan seeks to contribute to and support the acceleration of progress towards the achievement of the Agenda 2063 – SDG 8.7 target. This involves ending child labour by 2025 and forced labour, human trafficking and modern slavery by 2030. The target population are children, women and men who are victims of or vulnerable to the forms of exploitation addressed by the Agenda 2063 - SDG 8.7 target.
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Press release
Malawi’s Ministry of Labour pledges to accelerate efforts for the eradication of child labour
01 April 2021
The Deputy Minister of Labour, Malawi, Honourable Vera Kamtukule has joined the African Union and its Member States, the International Labour Organization (ILO), and other stakeholders in adding her voice in pursuit of the global target to eliminate child labour in all its forms by 2025.
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#EndChildLabour2021
ILO and AU launch International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour paving the way for greater collaboration among stakeholders in Africa
31 March 2021
In Africa, the regional launch of the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour marked a call to a shift from commitment to action towards the achievement of the African Union Agenda 2063 and SDG target 8.7.
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#EndChildLabour2021
Regional launch of the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour in Africa
On Wednesday, March 31, from 12:00 pm to 14:30 pm (GMT), the ILO, the African Union and other stakeholders joined voices to advance towards the achievement of target 8.7 of the 2030 Agenda, relating to end child labour in all its forms by 2025.
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Publication
Malawi country profile on occupational safety and health 2020
24 February 2021
Malawi has updated its first OSH Profile which was compiled in 2009. The National OSH Profile is an inventory of all the tools and resources available in the country that are used for implementing and managing OSH services; This Profile has identified gaps and needs for further development of existing legal framework, standards, capacity and financial resources, administrative and technical infrastructures related to the management of OSH in Malawi.
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Article
ILO and TAML collaborate to advance children’s rights in Malawi
02 February 2021
Through the new programme, TAML will promote best practice tea estate policies and codes of conduct through inclusive business models with smallholder farmers on child labour, engage with smallholder farmers for improved compliance throughout the tea supply chain, and support its members with monitoring and capacity building services.
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News
International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour — beyond commitments to action
21 January 2021
An interview with Ms. Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Africa, on the occasion of the launch of the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, which took place on January 21, 2021.
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Press release
ILO and ECAM collaborate to fight child labour in Malawi
15 December 2020
The new action programme will see ECAM establish a National Employer Taskforce Against Child Labour, promote child labour elimination policies and practices across the private sector, and facilitate more and better Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) investments by companies to address the root causes of child labour in supply chains.
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Article
New partnership between the Government of Norway and the International Labour Organization to improve working conditions in Malawi’s tobacco sector
08 December 2020
This new project is well aligned to the strategic priorities of development cooperation between Norway and Malawi, which include a focus on the agriculture sector and respect for human rights, as well as with Norway’s global development cooperation priorities regarding the elimination of modern slavery and child labour.
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Press release
The African Union Ten Year Action Plan on Child Labour plan moves toward implementation
22 September 2020
The African Union (AU) is initiating discussions with stakeholders on the implementation of African Union’s Ten Year Action Plan to Eradicate Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery (2020-2030) adopted during the AU Summit held in February 2020. This initiative resonates well with the International Labour Organization (ILO) convention 182 on Worst Forms of Child Labour which is reaching its universal ratification.