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28.11.2025

A path built through resilience: How savings groups are strengthening livelihoods and child protection in Tanzania?

In Kalemela B, Tanzania, a village savings group is showing how progress takes hold when farmers lead their own development. Through the Tumaini VSLA, members like Asia Salum turn local knowledge into practical solutions: investing in groundnuts, livestock and collective goat-rearing. When people decide together, incomes stabilise, children stay in school, and communities build systems that withstand shocks. As we look toward Morocco 2026, their experience reminds us that lasting change begins with inclusion and the voices of those closest to the challenge.

26.11.2025

The 14th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights: lessons for the road ahead

This year in Geneva, companies, governments and communities converged around one conclusion: real due diligence is no longer a technical exercise — it is a test of fairness, power and leadership. When governments take the lead, when those most affected shape decisions, and when incomes are truly enough to live on, change becomes possible. Discover the key insights that emerged from this year’s Forum.

10.11.2025

A sweet smell of success: How inclusion is transforming farming and child protection in Chakulanjala

In Chakulanjala, Malawi, a community-led Farmer Field Business School is showing how inclusion can transform lives, proving that progress lasts when farmers lead their own development. When people shape the solutions that affect them, training becomes transformation. Harvests grow, families thrive, and resilience takes root. As the world prepares for the VI Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour in Morocco (2026), their story is a reminder that sustainable change begins with those closest to the challenge.

05.11.2025

Why mental health matters for sustainable agriculture?

Behind every harvest is a hidden reality: farmers are facing growing mental health pressures that put entire families—and children—at risk. When farmers’ wellbeing collapses, child labour often follows. Addressing mental health isn’t a side issue—it’s key to building sustainable, child-safe agriculture.

24.10.2025

Empowering women and strengthening incomes: A proven path to end child labour

When women gain financial independence, families grow stronger and children are safer. Across rural communities, women-led savings groups are proving that economic empowerment is a powerful catalyst for breaking the cycle of poverty and child labour—creating resilience from the ground up.

10.10.2025

Turning off the tap: how production, procurement, and policy can end child labour in agriculture

As global leaders prepare for the VI global conference on child labour in Morocco, the evidence is clear: coordinated action is key to lasting change in agriculture. To end child labour, we must go beyond removing children from the fields — we must change the systems that keep sending them there.

11.09.2025

VI Global Conference for the Elimination of Child Labour - ECLT Call to Action

Child labour is rising among the youngest children, especially in agriculture, where more than half of all cases are found. As the world prepares for the VI Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour in Morocco in 2026, now is the time to focus on small farms, younger children, and systemic change to “turn off the tap” of child labour. Read ECLT’s Call to Action ahead of the Global Conference and join the push for systemic change.

12.06.2025

Structural Problems Require Structural Solutions: ECLT's Response to 2025 Child Labour Data

Each year, the World Day Against Child Labour forces a pause. It asks the world to remember what is often forgotten: the children whose futures are shaped by work instead of learning, risk instead of protection, survival instead of possibility. It is a reminder of urgency, of the distance covered, and of the distance that remains. But this year, it is also something else—reckoning.

19.05.2025

Shaping futures with tools: How skills training is creating new options for rural youth in Mozambique

In the rural districts of Niassa Province, Mozambique, many young people face limited options once they reach adolescence. School attendance is often disrupted, and work in the fields becomes one of the few available paths. The UPSKILL Project was created as a response to these conditions. It focuses on preparing older adolescents for safer forms of employment by offering technical and vocational training that reflects the realities of their environment.