Workshop report
Skills and livelihoods training for older children - A summary of a project knowledge sharing workshop
This report is an outcome of a five day workshop conducted as a strategic component for knowledge sharing under the IPEC project “Combatting child labour through education”.
The ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, with the support of the Netherland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been implementing a project aimed at combating child labour through education. The main objective of the project is to strengthen the policy level linkages between work on child labour and education, leading to action which will improve the opportunities for those either in, or vulnerable to child labour, to benefit from education.
The project has included a component on design of skills and livelihoods training programmes for out of school youth. These children have often dropped out of education at an early age and for many of them returning to school is not an option. At the same time, they may lack both vocational and life skills (including literacy or numeric skills), that could help them access decent work.
In its work with such children, IPEC promotes an approach that seeks to combine skills training with occupational health and safety awareness-raising, basic literacy/numeracy education, and as may be required, job counselling and/or entrepreneurship training-all situated within a larger labour market strategy and an integrated area based approach. However, since IPEC is often working in areas in which there are few formal training institutions and limited opportunities for employment, there can be a challenge in ensuring that training provided by partners is of good quality and leads to positive labour market outcomes.
To support on-going work with older children the project has developed a new resource package to support those concerned with developing skills programmes for older out of school children, “Skills and livelihoods training: a guide for partners in child labour projects.”
The Turin workshop acted as a knowledge sharing event, facilitating exchange of experience between the participating countries and with the following objectives:
© ILO 2014
The project has included a component on design of skills and livelihoods training programmes for out of school youth. These children have often dropped out of education at an early age and for many of them returning to school is not an option. At the same time, they may lack both vocational and life skills (including literacy or numeric skills), that could help them access decent work.
In its work with such children, IPEC promotes an approach that seeks to combine skills training with occupational health and safety awareness-raising, basic literacy/numeracy education, and as may be required, job counselling and/or entrepreneurship training-all situated within a larger labour market strategy and an integrated area based approach. However, since IPEC is often working in areas in which there are few formal training institutions and limited opportunities for employment, there can be a challenge in ensuring that training provided by partners is of good quality and leads to positive labour market outcomes.
To support on-going work with older children the project has developed a new resource package to support those concerned with developing skills programmes for older out of school children, “Skills and livelihoods training: a guide for partners in child labour projects.”
The Turin workshop acted as a knowledge sharing event, facilitating exchange of experience between the participating countries and with the following objectives:
- Provide basic guidance to participants on how to prepare and deliver skills and livelihoods training to older age children at risk or removed from child labour.
- Discuss practical concerns and issues as they relate to pre training processes, the delivery of training programmes, the provision of post training support and the monitoring and evaluation of training outcomes.
- Familiarize participants with the practical use of model tools that can be used during key steps in the preparation and delivery of training and post training support.
- Guide participants on the use of available the resource material, particularly the guide on skills and livelihoods training for partners of child labour projects.
© ILO 2014