The Report on the National Child Labour Survey 2010 of Lao PDR provides many useful insights into the child labour situation of Lao PDR. It examines in detail various aspects of child labour, including its demographic and educational implications, the economic and non-economic activities children engage in, hazardous forms of child labour, children working in the informal sector and migrant child workers, by age groups, sex and locality.
The 2010 National Child Labour Survey was designed to provide indicators on three main aspects of children’s lives: economic activity, schooling and unpaid household services. The survey covered 9,571 households containing 67,617 individuals, 23,535 of whom were children between 5 and 17 years of age.
The Inter-Agency Report provides an overview of the child labour situation in the country and how it is changing over time, building on and updating the results of the comprehensive Country Report on child labour published in 2009.
In the lead up to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child holding its 2012 Day of General Discussion on “The rights of all children in the context of International Migration”, ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) and Child Helpline International (CHI) joined forces to shed light on the situation of migrant children in child labour, resulting in a report entitled “Child migrants in child labour: An invisible group in need of attention - A study based on child helpline case records”.
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 Guide is designed for the Government unit tasked with organizing and facilitating the Tripartite Consultations that will result in either a new or a revised list of hazardous child labour for the country.
A newsletter produced by AYISE Mulanje Action Programme for IPEC SNAP Project.