About DigiChild

DIGICHILD Initiative, an innovative project under Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. The initiative is a GIS-based child labour risk estimation index in agrifood systems. It combines key variables that represent risk indicators of child labour in agriculture. The index maps agriculture and crop-growing communities subject to child labour risk in Uganda, combining their exposure to selected, standardized and weighted child labour risk indicators (e.g. poverty, food insecurity, school distance, climate vulnerability and others). The index includes crop masking, mapping child labor risk estimation in specific crop-growing areas and agricultural sub-sectors (coffee, livestock and others).

How to Use DigiChild

The DIGICHILD Index

DIGICHILD offer a transformative opportunity to reach vulnerable farmers and their families in remote rural areas. By generating accurate, cost and time-effective child labour risk estimations, the DIGICHILD index will strengthen our capacity to target higher-risk areas and adopt tailored action. The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development in collaboration with FAO, has a vision of upscaling the adaptation of this global GIS-based tools to in realizing a breakthrough in child labour elimination in agrifood systems and strengthen due diligence compliance along Uganda's agrifood value chains.