Market
Activity
Dantokpa
Nber
Retail and wholesale trade
%
Ouando
Nber
Arzéké
%
Nber
Total
%
Nber
%
3,441
73.6
1,575
73.3
706
66.9
5,722
72.6
33
0.7
20
0.9
1
0.1
54
0.7
Craft
189
4.0
72
3.4
78
7.4
339
4.3
Catering
862
18.4
457
21.3
256
24.2
1,575
20.0
Other services
94
2.0
24
1.1
12
1.1
130
1.7
Unspecified activity
58
1.2
1
0.1
3
0.3
62
0.8
4,677
100.0
2,149
100.0
1.056
100.0
7,882
100.0
Transport
Total
Source: INSAE, REM - March 2013
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319
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Actions undertaken against child labour:
Faced with the scale of child labour, the Government of Benin sets up progressively a
legal and institutional framework with the support of development partners and civil
society organisation.
Strengthening of the legal framework:
320
Benin is party to most of the international conventions governing child labour namely
the conventions of the International Labour Office (ILO). Bilateral or multilateral
agreements and treaties ratified by Benin and aiming at combating Child trafficking
are also in line with the above conventions.
321
In short, several instruments and regulatory acts above mentioned govern child labour.
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Strengthening of the institutional framework:
322 There is a plan to create promotional services against child labour at the level of
Department Directorates accordingly with the new decree on attributions, organisation
and functioning of these directorates. It is also set up at the level of these
directorates, Labour inspection services instituted by the Labour code.
323
These structures make sure that laws on labour are generally complied with and they
are also authorised to hail any owner of any business who does not comply with child
rights accordingly with the article 169 which provides that: "The labour inspector may
demand that women and young workers be examined by a certified doctor in order to
check if the work they have to perform is not beyond their capacity. The interested
parties have the right to ask for that requisition. Woman or young workers may not be
retained for such work recognised being beyond of their capacities and must be