PROGRAMME OUEST AFRICAIN POUR LUTTER CONTRE LE TRAVAIL DANGEREUX ET L'EXPLOITATION DES ENFANTS PAR LE TRAVAIL DANSLE SECTEUR DU CACAO ET DE L'AGRICULTURE COMMERCIALE
The West Africa Cocoa/Commercial Agriculture Project (WACAP) is a sub regional project under the ILO International Programme on the Elimination of child labour (IPEC) which is aimed at preventing and eliminating the worst forms of child in the cocoa sector and other agricultural sub-sectors in Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria.
DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES
To contribute to the progressive and effective prevention and elimination of hazardous and exploitative child labour in cocoa/commercial agriculture in West Africa.
IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVES
1. To strengthen the capacity of national and community level agencies and organisations to plan, initiate, implement, and evaluate action to prevent and progressively eliminate child labour.
2. To increase awareness and mobilise children, families, communities, civil society, media, public and private agencies on issues related to child labour and provide viable alternatives to child labour.
3. To provide social protection options to children withdrawn from workplace hazards and their families.
4. To establish a credible, affordable and feasible/sustainable child labour monitoring system.
5. To enhance knowledge base through action-oriented research and a viable information dissemination system.