Consultant, Child Labor Prevalence Survey - International Cocoa Initiative

• Household survey (administered to the head of household or spouse and including basic demographic data about household members and livelihoods)
• Child survey (administered to children age 5-17 within sampled households and including information about children’s work and education)
• Community survey (including basic information about the presence and absence of key infrastructure eg. schools, water points etc.) 

Required Skills or Experience

ICI is seeking a consultant with proven experience conducting large-scale surveys of child labour, including interviews with children, in rural areas of Ghana. Household, child and community-level interviews must be conducted by trained data collectors, with prior experience interviewing children. 

• Participation in the survey will be voluntary. Heads of the household will be asked to give their informed consent prior to starting interviews, children will be asked their assent.

• The consultant will use data collection tools developed by ICI, which have been extensively field-tested and build on tried and tested methods of interviewing children about child labour. ICI staff will support the training of the data collectors on the use of these tools.

• Recognising that children involved in child labour represent a vulnerable population group, the consultant will follow local guidelines on working with vulnerable populations. For any children identified at immediate risk (for example a child in a situation of forced labour), an identification and referral process will be set up to ensure that follow-up and support can be provided.

• During data collection, each child, household and community will be assigned a unique identifier, enabling personal data to be stored separately and ensuring anonymity of participants during the analysis phase.