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20 PDA Annual Newsletter 2023 IN REVIEW
VSLA-CHILD Project (Ghana)
The VSLA-CHILD Project is a child Santasi on 18th and 19th January 2023. 3
labour remediation initiative that aims to PDA field officers and 6 PDA associates
tackle child labour in cocoa-producing were trained in addition to 5 CLMT
communities through a community-driven officers from Beyond Beans. 3 teams
approach. The project sought to increase were deployed for the data collection at
the access of 2500 farmers to microcredit, Samreboi, Konongo/Juaso and Bekwai/
improve their savings culture and income Nsokote. The field officers did a mop
diversity, as well as support the farming up after the one-week intensive data
households to develop self-help measures collection. The field officers who were
to protect children and remediate child trained from Beyond Beans collected the
labour using bottom-up approaches. data from the Kookoo Pa operational
The project was implemented between areas.The project impact report was
2019 – 2022. Training for endline data submitted in June 2023.
collection for the project was done at
