To combat child labor, the CNS carries out a variety of activities at both national and international level.

3.1. At national level

3.1.1. In the field of Prevention

• Awareness-raising and communication campaigns to inform the public about hazardous work prohibited to children, and light work or socializing activities authorized for them by international conventions and national legislation.

• Training national players in prevention, detection and victim care techniques.

• Copy and dissemination of legislative and regulatory texts prohibiting child labor.

• The creation of child protection committees throughout the country.

• Production of awareness-raising and communication materials against child labor.

3.1.2. In the field of protection

• Construction of primary and nursery schools, school canteens and teachers’ lodgings in rural areas to facilitate children’s access to education.

• Distribution of school kits and textbooks to pupils from low-income families.

Support for the establishment of supplementary judgments for children not registered with the civil registry.

• Strengthening the economic capacities of vulnerable families by granting microloan for income-generating activities (IGAs) and setting up village savings and loan associations (VSLAs).

3.1.3. In the field of law enforcement

• Providing support for the creation and equipping in 2020 (decree n°0197/MSPC/CAB of 18th June 2020), of 6 regional branches of the Police unit in charge of the fight against child trafficking and juvenile delinquency (SDLTEEDJ), in Man, San Pedro, Soubre, Bouake, Korhogo and Bondoukou, in addition to the Central Office in Abidjan, for local monitoring of child labor. From January 2012 to December 2023, the SDLTEEDJ carried out a number of activities that helped 18,000 victims, including 15,000 child victims of trafficking, exploitation and child labor, 2,300 child victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation and 700 child victims of trafficking for exploitation through beggin

• Providing support for police operations against trafficking, exploitation and child labor in high-risk areas. The SDLTEEDJ had carried out 06 major police operations: BIA 1, BIA 2 and BIA 3 in the Aboisso area, NAWA 1 and NAWA 2 in the Soubre region and operation AKOMA in the San Pedro region. In all, between 2012 and 2023, the SDLTEEDJ arrested 5,500 people and brought them to court.

• Providing support for strengthening Police and Gendarmerie interventions on the ground.

3.1.4. In the field of coordination and monitoring-evaluation

• Field visits to supervise and monitor projects to combat child labor, with a view to aligning them with national priorities.
• The organization of periodic coordination and monitoring-evaluation meetings on the implementation of the National Action Plan to Combat Child Trafficking, Exploitation and Labor.
• Ongoing monitoring of child labor in the cocoa supply chain, through the recruitment of Child Labor Verification Agents, in collaboration with the Conseil du Café-Cacao.
• Signing of partnership agreements with companies and organizations in the private sector, with a view to pooling efforts.

3.2. At international level

• The signing of cooperation agreements with border countries (Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, etc.), to combat cross-border child trafficking upstream.
• The organization in 2017 in Abidjan by the First Lady, Mrs Dominique Ouattara, of the conference of First Ladies of West Africa and the Sahel on joint actions to combat cross-border child trafficking.
• Advocacy by the First Lady, Mrs Dominique Ouattara, with leading foreign figures in Europe and the United States, to present Côte d’Ivoire’s efforts to combat child labor.
• Participation in high-level international meetings on the issues and challenges in combating child labor.