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The Role of Stomach Infrastructures on Children’s Work and Child Labour in Africa: Systematic Review
Child labour remains a prevalent global concern, and progress toward eradicating harmful children’s work appears to have stalled in the African continent and henceforth, integrated social policy intervention is still required to address the problem. Among several forms of social policy interventions...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8391661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34444309 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168563 |
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author | Gonsamo, Dagim Dawit Lo, Herman Hay Ming Chan, Ko Ling |
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description | Child labour remains a prevalent global concern, and progress toward eradicating harmful children’s work appears to have stalled in the African continent and henceforth, integrated social policy intervention is still required to address the problem. Among several forms of social policy interventions, stomach infrastructure (i.e., in-kind and/or cash transfers) have been a key policy approach to support vulnerable families to lighten households’ resources burden, which forces them to consider child labour as a coping strategy. There is growing evidence on the impacts of these programs in child labour. However, this evidence is often mixed regarding children’s work outcomes, and the existing studies hardly describe such heterogeneous outcomes from the child-sensitive approach. To this end, a systematic literature search was conducted for studies in African countries. From 743 references retrieved in this study, 27 studies were included for the review, and a narrative approach has been employed to analyse extracted evidence. Results from the current study also demonstrate a mixed effect of in-kind and cash transfers for poor households on child labour decisions. Hence, the finding from the current review also demonstrates a reduced participation of children in paid and unpaid work outside the household due to in-kind and cash transfers to poor households, but children’s time spent in economic and non-economic household labour and farm and non-farm labour, which are detrimental to child health and schooling, has been reported increasing due to the program interventions. The question remains how these programs can effectively consider child-specific and household-related key characteristics. To this end, a child-sensitive social protection perspective has been applied in this study to explain these mixed outcomes to inform policy design. |
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spelling | pubmed-83916612021-08-28 The Role of Stomach Infrastructures on Children’s Work and Child Labour in Africa: Systematic Review Gonsamo, Dagim Dawit Lo, Herman Hay Ming Chan, Ko Ling Int J Environ Res Public Health Systematic Review Child labour remains a prevalent global concern, and progress toward eradicating harmful children’s work appears to have stalled in the African continent and henceforth, integrated social policy intervention is still required to address the problem. Among several forms of social policy interventions, stomach infrastructure (i.e., in-kind and/or cash transfers) have been a key policy approach to support vulnerable families to lighten households’ resources burden, which forces them to consider child labour as a coping strategy. There is growing evidence on the impacts of these programs in child labour. However, this evidence is often mixed regarding children’s work outcomes, and the existing studies hardly describe such heterogeneous outcomes from the child-sensitive approach. To this end, a systematic literature search was conducted for studies in African countries. From 743 references retrieved in this study, 27 studies were included for the review, and a narrative approach has been employed to analyse extracted evidence. Results from the current study also demonstrate a mixed effect of in-kind and cash transfers for poor households on child labour decisions. Hence, the finding from the current review also demonstrates a reduced participation of children in paid and unpaid work outside the household due to in-kind and cash transfers to poor households, but children’s time spent in economic and non-economic household labour and farm and non-farm labour, which are detrimental to child health and schooling, has been reported increasing due to the program interventions. The question remains how these programs can effectively consider child-specific and household-related key characteristics. To this end, a child-sensitive social protection perspective has been applied in this study to explain these mixed outcomes to inform policy design. MDPI 2021-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8391661/ /pubmed/34444309 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168563 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Systematic Review Gonsamo, Dagim Dawit Lo, Herman Hay Ming Chan, Ko Ling The Role of Stomach Infrastructures on Children’s Work and Child Labour in Africa: Systematic Review |
title | The Role of Stomach Infrastructures on Children’s Work and Child Labour in Africa: Systematic Review |
title_full | The Role of Stomach Infrastructures on Children’s Work and Child Labour in Africa: Systematic Review |
title_fullStr | The Role of Stomach Infrastructures on Children’s Work and Child Labour in Africa: Systematic Review |
title_full_unstemmed | The Role of Stomach Infrastructures on Children’s Work and Child Labour in Africa: Systematic Review |
title_short | The Role of Stomach Infrastructures on Children’s Work and Child Labour in Africa: Systematic Review |
title_sort | role of stomach infrastructures on children’s work and child labour in africa: systematic review |
topic | Systematic Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8391661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34444309 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168563 |
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