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The report highlights poverty and socio-economic insecurity as the major causes of child labour in farming households, particularly in tea-growing households in Malawi. It analyses the current financial landscape of Malawi, identifying financial providers offering services to farming households, and determines the opportunities and challenges of financial inclusion for farming households and their usage of different financial products.

This study aims to document human and labor rights violations – especially sexual exploitation- understand the dynamics that perpetuate them, and assess the capacity of stakeholders to address them. It aims to provide actionable recommendations based on the firsthand accounts of affected women.

This publication examines progress on eradicating child labour and the persistent barriers that prevent businesses from addressing the issue more effectively. The publication serves both as a practical guide and a clear reminder: more action is urgently needed…every business can evaluate its supply chain practices to help prevent child labour.

This paper explains how a gender perspective is embedded into the Anker Methodology for estimating a living wage. This is important for transparency and for ensuring that users of Anker Methodology living wage and living income estimates and other interested parties understand the approach.

The International Labour Organization thus implemented the Safety + Health for All Plantation Workers in South Asia project. This compendium highlights good practices that emerged from the project, providing practical guidance to project implementers, governments, employers and workers to improve workplace conditions in plantations. Moreover, it serves as a blueprint for other sectors and regions to replicate these achievements, helping…

In 2013 the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 was brought into force by the Ministry of Women and Child. Despite these efforts, the benefits of these laws do not, often, percolate down to the beneficiaries. The main cause of this deficiency is the lack of awareness of the main stakeholders, like the women…

The objective of the study is to foster better understanding of effective ways to respond to the direct and root causes and contributing factors of SEAH; and help producers, packers and retailers learn how they can act and collaborate to prevent further harm. The study, conducted between May and December 2024 by Claire Lynch Consulting and Partner Africa, centred on…