It extends the coverage of limited “beneficiary” focused child labour projects to all child labour in a given area and promotes the institutionalization of a permanent response mechanism to child labour. It also helps specific child labour projects to phase-out in planned and organized way.
As part of the work against child labour CLM can be:
- A tool to mainstream and sustain project based child labour work into government child and labour protection work - the focus here is on long term impact of anti child labour programmes and projects.
- Organizing principle for direct action activities through using the referral system as basis for selection of beneficiaries and facilitation of their access to appropriate services i.e. education and skills training.
- Part of the general information generating process on child labour.
Information on the main elements and characteristics of child labour monitoring can be found in the Child Labour Monitoring Brochure and Facts on Child Labour Monitoring