Concepts, Causes and Institutional Response to Child Labour in Ghana: A SocioEconomic Review

Abstract

Agyemang Frimpong, Seth Yaw Oppong, Pearl Adiza Babah, Ronald Osei Mensah, Andrews Acquah and John Wiredu Acheampong

This paper is written by authors to primarily look at ‘concepts, causes and institutional response to child labour in Ghana’. Methodologically, this paper adopted a desktop review approach which relied its sources of information mainly from secondary data and related literatures on the subject. The paper revealed that, some of the challenges of child labour are frequent illness, attempts of rape, financial difficulty and many others. It is therefore concluded that, stakeholders should continue their participation in eradicating child labour and their support, increasing enrollment and classroom attendance participation. It was in agreement that the media and other concern bodies like the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and traditional rulers should increase campaign and education against child labour and intensified publicity of the criminal nature of child labour. It is strongly recommended that single parents in local communities especially women should be empowered to financially and vocationally through free vocational and financial management training to provide enough avenues for single parent (women) to cater for their children’s education. Government and stakeholders should implement policies aimed at promoting classroom enrollment, classroom attendance and classroom participation. If these recommendations given are feasibly implemented, searching for every day in African and Ghanaian childhoods would be reduced if not curbed.

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