
L’agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD) & Bureau International du Travail (BIT)- Programme International pour l’Abolition du Travail des Enfants (IPEC) & (ANSD/BIT-IPEC). Dakar: Groupe de recherches d’études et de formation (GREF). La problematique des employées de maison. Senegal: Social Context and Human Resource Development. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īfrican Economic Outlook (AEO). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. 1 Among girls who are involved in some form of productive activity, 10.1 percent are estimated to be working as remunerated child domestic workers outside the home, a category of work that has been characterized as often qualifying under ILO Convention 182 as one of the least protected forms of child labor (e.g., Black, 2005). A recent study estimated that there are more than 450,000 economically active children in Senegal between the ages of 5 and 14 years, with half of those being under the age of 12 years (UCW, 2010).

Approximately 85 percent of this activity is nonremunerated family-based domestic labor and farm work. Equally striking is that an estimated half of all children aged 5–14 years in Senegal are involved in “productive activity”-in other words, they work. In Senegal, as elsewhere across sub-Saharan Africa, the population is heavily skewed toward youth 50 percent of the country’s inhabitants are under 18 years of age (UNICEF, n.d.).
