Measuring Longer Term Impact on Children and Families through Tracer/Tracking Methodology

30 September 2002

30 September 2006

United States

Objective: The project supports the overall operational objectives for the progressive elimination of child labour by providing a methodology for assessing impact on children and their families of specific interventions. This will help in demonstrating impact of interventions on child labour, particularly for ILO/IPEC and in providing data on which type of interventions have the most direct impact considering types of child labour and resources used. At the end of the project: (1) methodologies for assessing longer term impact on children and families of ILO/IPEC interventions through tracer and tracking studies will have been developed and documented, (2) the developed tracer methodology will have been applied in a sample of project context (countries) for selected ILO/IPEC types of interventions, providing information for overall ILO/IPEC assessment of impact on children and families and (3) the developed tracking methodology will have been applied in a few project context (countries) for selected ILO/IPEC types of interventions.

Building the foundations for eliminating the worst forms of child labour in Anglophone Africa

30 September 2002

30 December 2006

United States

Objective: This project will contribute to the elimination of the worst forms of child labour in Anglophone countries in Africa. By the end of the project; (1) governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations, non-governmental organizations and other partners will have the technical skills and organizational capacity to formulate and implement policies, programmes and other initiatives to facilitate prevention, protection, withdrawal, rehabilitation and reintegration from the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) and (2) knowledge and experience on child labour and good practice interventions will have been identified and shared at the sub-regional level.

Including the Excluded: Action against the worst forms of child labour through education networking

1 January 2003

30 April 2006

Netherlands

Objective: The main objective of this project is to contribute to the elimination of child labour through mainstreaming of child labour in education policies, plans and programmes at both the global and national level. By the end of the project; (1) governments and their social partners in the target countries will have increased capacity to achieve higher enrolment and completion rates for working children and make educational policies, plans, curricula and programs more responsive to the needs of working children, former child labourers and children at risk of working as a result of policy and technical advice provided by this project; (2) National and international dialogue on child labour, education and social exclusion strengthened through networking; (3) a strong knowledge base on how to use education to prevent and eliminate child labour will have been created and in use by governments and social partners and (4) the capacity for joint and separate action by governments, teachers, worker and employer organizations, NGOs and children and their families to use education to combat child labour will be increased.

Combating Child Labour in the Domestic Work Sector in East Africa

1 February 2003

30 June 2006

Sweden

Objective: This project aims to: (1) improve and expand the scope of preventive as well as rehabilitative and protective direct action interventions in the targeted countries and (2) strengthen the capacity of partner agencies in action to combat exploitation of children in domestic work in the selected countries too. The project strategies used can be grouped in the following components: (i) prevention; (ii) protection, withdrawal, rehabilitation and reintegration of children engaged in domestic labour; (iii) building the knowledge base on child domestic labour; and (iv) building the capacity of partners to tackle the issue.

The worst forms of child labour in the small urban industry and service sectors in Africa

1 July 2003

31 March 2005

Canada

Objective: The main focus of this project is to focus attention through research on strategies to combat the worst forms of child labour in the urban informal sector through informal, cost-effective methods of skills training, with special emphasis on traditional apprenticeship schemes. This project will be implemented in four sub-Saharan African countries; Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Preventing and Eliminating Exploitative Child Domestic Work through Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa and Anglophone Africa

1 March 2004

28 February 2006

Netherlands

Objective: This project will contribute to the progressive and effective elimination of exploitative child domestic labour in Anglophone Africa. By the end of the project: (1) education policy makers, educators and school administrators, teachers and their organizations, training institution professional, local artisans, local communities, the media and employers and workers’ organizations (more female than male participants) will have been sensitized about child domestic labour and the importance of quality education as a means to prevent and eradicate it; (3) 3,440 child domestic workers (2,500 girls and 940 boys) will have been offered formal and informal educational and vocational skills training programs responding to their needs and delivered by qualified educators; and (4) networks between partners at local, national and interregional levels have been promoted and regional knowledge of child domestic workers and the importance of education as a means to reduce the exploitation has been shared.

Supporting the National Plan of Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Kenya

30 September 2004

15 April 2009

United States

Objective: This project will contribute to the elimination of the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) in Kenya through support to the National Plan of Action (NAP) as a time bound program (TBP). By the end of the project, (1) the knowledge base to support action against Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL) will be expanded, (2) labour related legislation harmonized and capacity to enforce them will be strengthened, (3) relevant policies and programmes will have been linked and target the needs of children, (4) effective model interventions to withdraw children from WFCL and to provide access to quality primary education and vocational training will be developed, (5) vulnerable groups and families prone to WFCL will be targeted for economic empowerment and community safety nets will be created and (6) public awareness of the negative consequences of worst forms of child labour will have been increased and stakeholders mobilized against the WFCL.

Skills training strategies to combat worst forms of child labour in the urban informal sector in sub-Saharan Anglophone Africa

30 November 2004

31 December 2007

Canada

Objective: By the end of the project (1) global poverty reduction strategies and sector policies in each of the participating countries will include provisions to secure access for children working in the urban informal economy to the planned services, in the fields of technical and vocational education and training, (2) at least 400 working children in the urban informal economy will be withdrawn from the worst forms of child labour through non-formal low cost skills training appropriate to their age. In addition, 250 children will be prevented from entering into the worst forms of child labour in the urban informal economy, through the same training services and (3) a sound knowledge base and generic tools will have been developed, on combating the worst forms of child labour through non-formal low cost skills training.

Tackling Child Labour through Education (TACKLE)

1 March 2008

31 August 2013

European Commission

Objective: The overall objective of this project is to contribute towards poverty reduction in Angola, Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Papa New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Zambia by providing equitable access to basic education and skills development to the most disadvantaged section of the society. By the end of this project: (1) country level legal framework will be prepared or strengthened where already in existence: (2) institutional capacity will be strengthened leading to improved ability to formulate and implement child labour strategies; (3) targeted actions to combat child labour will be designed and implemented and (4) advocacy and dissemination of good practices will be improved to enhance knowledge base and networks on child labour and education.

Creating an enabling environment for child labour free areas in Kenya: Supporting the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour with special focus on agriculture & older children

30 September 2009

31 July 2013

United States

Objective: The project will contribute to reducing the incidence of worst forms of child labour through effective implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP). By the end of the project, (1) relevant national policies, programmes and legislation harmonized with the National Action Plan to eliminate child Labour and enforced, (2) the capacity of national and local authorities and social partners is enhanced to support the effective implementation of the National Action Plan and (3) effective models for establishing child labour free areas are tested in three Districts with documented processes and experiences.