The aim of this publication is to document good practices that emerged from the implementation of the project in order to provide information to different stakeholders at national, district and community level that would guide programming for enhancing interventions for elimination of child labour, replicate and take the good practices to scale. A total of 15 good practices were identified at the macro, meso and micro levels.
This report was produced as a result of the need to guide and monitor the awareness raising campaign to build synergies between the different partners in the campaign and to document the processes and outcomes of the campaign.
Elimination of the worst forms of child labour: Making schooling the principal occupation of children
The aim of this research was to enhance stakeholders understanding of the IABA, document the intervention model and identify emerging good practice that the model reflected thus far. Overall, the study revealed that understanding of the IABA by the different stakeholders was a gradual process. An IABA to engaging with norms and belief systems that condone child labour and leveraging existing community resources and structures are key.
The study was conducted between September and October 2010. The study aimed at establishing the relationship between disability and child labour among children and families in the three districts of Rakai, Mbale and Wakiso.
This year, emphasis was put on child participation and this was evident in all activities that were child led. Preparations for the celebrations were done by a National Organizing Committee and the District Organizing Committee. Organizations on the National Organizing Committee included the Ministry of Gender, labour and Social Development, NOTU, UNATU, COFTU, FUE, ILO-IPEC, IRC and ILO-IPEC implementing agencies in Mbale.
A programme aimed at providing social protection to families affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda has proven to be efficient in the fight against child labour.