ECLT carries out its own research and promotes the research carried out by independent organisations and individuals.

Independent research conducted for ECLT and other organisations

The ECLT Foundation conducts research to help identify and quantify the various causes and issues related to child labour in tobacco growing. Our findings are made available to international bodies concerned with child labour and to national governments.

Here is a selection of research that has informed ECLT’s work. This research has been produced by independent research institutes and/or consultants:

• Assessment of child labour in small-scale tobacco farms in Mozambique: Nadège Etienne, May 2006 
• Study of child workers in tobacco plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia: ILO/IPEC, October 2005
• Child labour in tobacco cultivation in Santiago Province in the Dominican Republic: ILO/IPEC, April 2004       
• Child Labour in the Fiji Tobacco Industry: Farm Consultancy, August 2004       
• Rapid appraisal of child labour in the tobacco industry: Philippines, PARTNERS: February 2002
• Study of child labour in tobacco growing areas in Uganda: SODECO, June 2002
• Child labour in the tobacco growing sector in Africa: Fafo, Institute for Labour and Social Research report, October 2000