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PATEC

Promoting the abandonment of child labor in the cotton fields of Burkina Faso

  • Implementation period : 01.09.2018 - 31.12.2019
Sissili Ziro Sanguié Boulkiemdé Sourou Nayala Mouhoun Kossi Bale Banwa Noumbiel Poni Ioba Bougouriba Kénédougou Houet Pipe Comoé Léraba Kouritenga Boulgou Bazèga Nahouri Zoundwéogo Ganzourgou Kourwéogo Oubritenga Loroum Zondoma Yatenga Passoré Namentenga Sanmatenga Bam Oudalan Soum Yagha Séno Tapoa Kompienga Gnagna Komondjari Gourma Kadiogo
  • Invention zones : Boucle du Mouhoun

Financial partners :

Implementing partners :

Union Provinciale des Producteurs du Coton du Mouhoun

Direction régionale en charge du travail et de la sécurité sociale (DRTSS)

Mairies

Agence RANAS MOSLER (Risks and Self-regulation)

CERFODES

Direction provinciale en charge de l’agriculture (Service étatique)

Union Nationale des Producteurs de Coton du Burkina

  • Themes & Approaches
Themes :
  • Main objective
Significantly reduce child labor in the cotton fields of the Mouhoun province, with a hoped-for knock-on effect on the health and education of these children.
  • Targets / Beneficiaries
  • Direct beneficiaries: cotton growers in the project area (estimated at 50,000), local authorities (4), children’s clubs (6);
  • Indirect beneficiaries: children, estimated at 60,000 from cotton-growing households
  • Expected results
  • 24% of parents who had not enrolled all their children in school before the campaign changed their behaviour;
  • 37% of parents who let their children handle chemicals before the campaign have changed their behavior;
  • 71% of parents who let their children work more than 6 hours a day and 21% of parents who let their children work more than 3 hours a day have changed their behaviour.

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