Kenyan co-operatives have joined a national push to address child labour in the tea and coffee value chain, as part of a wider effort by the country’s government and development agencies to eradicate the practice.
A joint 2025 report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Unicef found that sub-Saharan Africa continues to account for nearly two thirds of all child labour, and that the practice even became more widespread between 2012 and 2016. Founded in 2023, the Accel Africa Project is an ILO initiative backed by the Dutch government which aims to “accelerate the elimination of child labour in Africa”.
Now in its second phase, Accel says it is adopting a systems-based approach to the root causes of child labour, such as poverty, low income, informality, and limited institutional capacity within agricultural value chains across the region.
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