The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has collaborated with the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) to accelerate the process of ending child labour in the Cocoa, and Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) supply chains in Nigeria.
Development Diaries understands that this collaboration will be carried out through the ‘Accelerating Action for the Elimination of Child Labour in Supply Chains in Africa’ (ACCEL Africa) project.
This four-year initiative will be funded by the government of the Netherlands.
ILO director, Dennis Zulu, commended NECA for providing a platform to amplify the elimination of child labour in global supply chains.
He said that NECA’s efforts were crucially important in the fight to end the worst forms of child labour, urging the Nigerian body to continue to initiate projects in collaboration with other development partners to check child labourers.
Zulu said, ‘We are hopeful that through the ACCEL Africa Project, we can continue to strengthen NECA’s involvement in all tiers of child labour elimination, as well as NECA’s capacity to effectively eliminate child labour in supply chains in the private sector’.
Source: THISDAY
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