On April 28, 2008, the Council of Ministers adopted the conclusions of a communication concerning a request from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée and Tulane University (New Orleans, USA) for authorization to carry out a 2-year research project on “child labor in plantation economy regions”, particularly in the cocoa sector. Several agreements have been signed within this framework.
The latest agreement, signed in March 2009, entrusted ENSEA with the organization of a study on the trafficking of Malian and Burkinabe children to work on cocoa plantations in Côte d’Ivoire. Survey data collection should include a quantitative and a qualitative component. The scope of the study should take into account the children’s countries of origin.