ACCEL Africa - Malawi

Child labour continues to be a challenge in Malawi where 2.12 million children representing 38 per cent of all children aged 5-17 are engaged in child labour.

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.

Latest

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.