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Irish Aid Phase II: Testing methodologies to support informal economy workers and small producers to combat hazardous child labour in their own sectors - Final Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2259
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2259
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Fishing
- category:
- Sector
- comments:
- IPEC/ILO, GAWU
- challenges:
- The project planning under implementation was not aware of the climate change / fish stock depletion.
- success:
- Fisheries Commission is eager to associate GAWU in the near future.
- context:
- The ILO/GAWU project strengthens the partnership with the Fisheries Commission and act jointly. The Fisheries Commission is starting the operations of a regional project in the Lake Volta region and will associate GAWU to its execution
- description:
- Fighting child labour around Lake Volta (Ghana) demonstrates how development challenges are complex and interrelated. Climate change, fish resource management and the forms of conflict are complex. The lake is reducing its area, very small fish is illegally captured and marketed, the stock is officially considered in danger while there is confirmed information of chemicals use in fishing, other farming activities along the Lake, use of dangerous tools and unhygienic fish processing conditions. Over reliance on fish stocks create economic challenges for fishing communities, fishers and processors, which can result in the engagement of children to reduce operational cost. The dimensions of stock depletion are not yet considered as a challenge for the future of the communities. Meanwhile, aquaculture is currently locally experienced with a pilot cooperative supported by the national Fisheries Commission. GAWU members are included among coop membership. Although this pilot experience was not included in the GAWU project planning it seems urgent to coordinate the activities of all partners in the near future to understand better how the different parts of the system interact and affect each other, which actors are affecting the system and what motivates them. This issue calls for adaptive challenges, also considering that the project seeks to outreach the more distant fishers communities in the islands inside the Lake, where the household survival strategies are critically depending from the fish stocks and child labour still exists and where there are no schools.
- administrative_issues:
- A follow up is necessary to insure that parthership between Gawu and FC is effective
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/205334
- location:
- country:
- Inter-Regional
- region:
- Inter-Regional
- eval_title:
- Irish Aid Phase II: Testing methodologies to support informal economy workers and small producers to combat hazardous child labour in their own sectors - Final Evaluation
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