Publications

May 2012

1. 

   National Action Plan on elimination of the worst forms of child labour in Uganda - 2012/13-2016/17 - Report

   Elimination of the worst forms of child labour: Making schooling the principal occupation of children

April 2012

1. 

   Creating safe futures: good practices to protect children and youth from hazardous work - Workshop report

   In recognition of 2011 World Day Against Child Labour, the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) and the United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in partnership with the International Labour Organization (ILO), through its International Programme on the Elimination Child Labour (IPEC), and the World Health Organization (WHO), joined efforts to host a workshop on good practices to protect children and youth from hazardous work.

2. 

   Rapid assessment on child labour in North Lebanon (Tripoli and Akkar) and Bekaa Governates

   Based on interviews with 1,007 children aged 5 to 17 working in Lebanese territory and 174 household visits

3. 

   Action against child labour in Lebanon : a mapping of policy and normative initiatives

   Analyses the general situation and main determinants of child labour in Lebanon, highlights advances in legislative and procedural reform and calls for further harmonization with international standards and better enforcement of existing national laws.

4. 

   Format to identify and document good practices on child labour in agriculture: Labour saving technologies and corporate social responsibility in tobacco production, Tanzania

   Format to identify and document good practices on child labour in agriculture: 1. It?s all about community: Working together to improve occupational health and safety through child labour monitoring systems; 2. Labour saving technologies and corporate social responsibility in tobacco production

5. 

   Action Research on the Integrated Area Based Approach and Child Labour Monitoring Sustems in Rakai District, Uganda

   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.

March 2012

1. 

   Jamaica: Child labour legislative gap analysis

2. 

   Practices with good potential - Towards the elimination of hazardous child labour

   This publication is a companion volume of the "Children in Hazardous Work: What we know, what we need to do" report, outlines the problem of hazardous work and highlights possible solutions. Although it is too early to say, in most cases, that the activities included here are proven "good practices" ready for emulation, nonetheless items in this selection have already demonstrated some unique or notable elements.

3. 

   Pilot Survey 2010: Working Children in Dry Fish Industry in Bangladesh

   To undertake this survey, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and ILO-IPEC with other stakeholders jointly identified the Dry Fish Industry located in selected five coastal districts of the Bay of Bengal. The aim of the survey was to investigate the forced labour of children and its measurement on the basis of certain indicators such as unfree recruitment, work imposed, freedom of work, dependency, coercion/ penalty etc. in line with ILO Conventions C 29 and C 105.

4. Child labour-free Newsletter - Issue no. 1 - March 2012

   A newsletter produced by AYISE Mulanje Action Programme for IPEC SNAP Project (MLW/09/50/USA).