L’ecole comme facteur de protection pour la suppression du travail des enfants en Côte D’ivoire: portee et limites

In the mid-1980s in Africa, the issue of combating the phenomenon of child labor is making news in Côte d'Ivoire. From a phase of denial, this country has moved to an effective fight against this phenomenon in agriculture and other sectors of economic activity. In this context, the policy of compulsory schooling was developed in order to substitute school for child labor. This article aims to describe the policy on the one hand and analyze its impact on children's schooling and their involvement in child labor on the other. Methodologically, the literature search, the questionnaire, the observation and the interview were used to collect the data. Content analysis has been favored in data processing. The results of this study focus on three points: the policy of compulsory schooling which admits a compulsory school, free and quality education and the absence of accompanying measures of the said policy as well as the persistence of child labor as a consequence from this absence.