Publications

May 2010

1. Communities and the private sector join hands to address child labour

   Due to the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Zambia, a large number of children are forced into child labour at the expense of going to school. As a response to this and with the help of a local bank, the Livingstone Anglican Children's Project (LACP) launched a programme to address child labour in 2009.

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   Combating child labour through HIV/AIDS programming with a focus on social protection

   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.

November 2008

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   Experiences and lessons learned from the upstream work of the HIV/AIDS induced child labour project

   Experiences and lessons learned from IPEC Project: "Combating and preventing HIV/AIDS induced child labour in Sub-Saharan Africa: Pilot action in Uganda and Zambia"

September 2008

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   Handbook on mainstreaming HIV/AIDS issues into child labour initiatives

   This handbook provides a practical approach to integrating HIV/AIDS responses in projects and programmes that address child labour. They also provide a useful resource for organizations engaged in the fight against HIV/AIDS to reflect on their interventions and consider incorporating aspects that might make it easier for children affected by HIV/AIDS to avoid the slide into child labour.

July 2008

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   Zambia - Rapid assessment report on HIV/AIDS and child labour

June 2008

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   Psychosocial needs and skills for teachers and community groups supporting working and at risk children affected by HIV/AIDS in Zambia

   This manual is intented to be a guide to trainers to train personnel who work with children in or at risk of HIV/AIDS induced child labour. This manual must be accompanied with the Scream Special module on HIV, AIDS and child labour, and the Training manual on child labour and HIV/AIDS.

January 2008

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   Emerging good practices of the community based models in Uganda and Zambia (Paper 12)

   The rich experiences and multiple achievements of the ten implementing agencies in Uganda and Zambia have yielded a number of important lessons learned, and good practices for combating HIV/AIDS induced child labour. Those are contained in this document, which is aimed at assisting many agencies and individuals in sub-Saharan Africa with innovative ideas and good replication models to effectively combat HIV/AIDS induced child labour.

October 2007

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   Enhancing social protection to alleviate HIV/AIDS induced child labour: Experiences from Uganda (Paper 11)

   Given the previous research done in the ILO-IPEC HIV/AIDS and child labour series, and based on experiences in Uganda, this study addresses the challenge of providing social protection to mitigate the phenomenon of HIV/AIDS induced child labour.

December 2006

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   Knowledge, attitudes and practices on child labour and HIV/AIDS in Uganda: Survey report

   This survey undertaken to enable IPEC-Uganda and partners to develop appropriate interventions in Kampala, Mukono, Mbale and Rakai to the eliminate of child labour and in particular HIV and AIDS-induced child labour. It provides data and suggestions on appropriate approaches to deal with the causes and socio-economic effects of child labour as well as baseline information that would enable follow-up, monitoring and evaluation.

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   Child labour, tobacco and AIDS

   This study aims at providing an insight into the different facets of child labour in tobacco growing areas in Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania. It is a first attempt at looking into the issue, but it is by no mean exhaustive and a lot remains to be done to increase the knowledge base and improve our understanding of the issues at stake.