South-to-South Cooperation Regional Workshop: Marking the regional efforts to end child labour by 2016
Key leaders representing government, employers, trade unions and other relevant stakeholders from six countries will meet at Hotel Balairung Jakarta, Monday (4/3), to look at ways of strengthening South-to-South cooperation in combating child labour.
JAKARTA (Joint Press Release): Key leaders representing government, employers, trade unions and other relevant stakeholders from six countries will meet at Hotel Balairung Jakarta, Monday (4/3), to look at ways of strengthening South-to-South cooperation in combating child labour. Hosted by the Indonesian Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), this three-day Regional Workshop marks the regional efforts to end child labour, particularly its worst forms, in the participating countries by 2016.
The Regional Workshop will provide a forum for dialogue and knowledge sharing among relevant key stakeholders on achievements, challenges and experiences in eliminating child labour, particularly its worst forms. The Workshop also aims to identify challenges and gaps in implementing actions against child labour and to strengthen collaboration and networks between neighbouring South-East Asian countries.
The Workshop will present lessons from participating countries, including Indonesia, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Viet Nam, the Philippines and Timor-Leste. Through field visits, the Workshop provides an opportunity for participating countries to learn from actions taken by Indonesia as the host country in tackling child labour. Participating countries will be taken to visit and observe activities taken by community learning centres located in Jakarta, targeting to among others street children, child scavengers in Bantar Gebang Bekasi and child domestic workers in Tangerang district.
In Indonesia, Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration has conducted various program on tackling chil labour which one of them is Reducing Child Labour to support Family Hope Program (ProgramPengurangan Pekerja Anak untuk mendukung Program Keluara Harapan). This program aim to target child labor and dropping out children from the very poor household.
Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration aim to withdraw a total of 11,000 child labor in 2013 in 21 provinces and 72 districts/cities in Indonesia. This target was increased from 10,750 in 2012. The success and challenges in implementing the program will be shared to the neighbourhood countries.
In addition, Cambodia will share its experiences on the implementation of a national social protection strategy with focus on child labour and education; while Viet Nam presents its strategy on school to work transition as an effort to mainstream child labour into education for all. Both Lao PDR and the Philippines will share their experiences dealing with data collection and analysis on child labour as part of policy development.
The Workshop also includes sessions on good practices on labour market policies as a way to move towards better policy recommendations in the region to tackle child labour. At the end of the third day, the Workshop will conclude with strategic planning and mapping to ensure that the region will be child labour free by the 2016.
The ILO estimates that 215 million children worldwide are child labourers. Meanwhile, the Indonesian Bureau of Statistics documents that there were 2.5 million of child labourers who are 5-17 years old in 2009. Many of them work long hours, and often in dangerous conditions, harming their physical, mental and social development. They are also either denied educational opportunities that would give them a better future, or they are obliged to balance education with work. Indonesia key stakeholders will benefit from this workshop by taking experiences and strengthening the collaboration among the neighbouring countries on tackling child labour.
The workshop is supported by the ILO through its Child Labour and Education Project, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The Project aims to strengthen the policy level linkages between work on child labour and education, leading to action that will improve the opportunities for those in or vulnerable to child labour to benefit from education. The campaign is part of a series of activities conducted by the ILO and its partners to highlight national efforts against child labour, particularly its worst forms.
For further information please contact:
Ms Dede Sudono
ILO’s National Project Officer for Education and Child Labour
Tel.: +6221 3913112 ext. 126
Email
Ms Arum Ratnawati
ILO’s National Project Manager of Child Domestic Workers
Tel.: +6221 3913112 ext. 130
Email
The Regional Workshop will provide a forum for dialogue and knowledge sharing among relevant key stakeholders on achievements, challenges and experiences in eliminating child labour, particularly its worst forms. The Workshop also aims to identify challenges and gaps in implementing actions against child labour and to strengthen collaboration and networks between neighbouring South-East Asian countries.
In Indonesia, Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration has conducted various program on tackling chil labour which one of them is Reducing Child Labour to support Family Hope Program, aimed to target child labor and dropping out children from the very poor household.
The Workshop will present lessons from participating countries, including Indonesia, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Viet Nam, the Philippines and Timor-Leste. Through field visits, the Workshop provides an opportunity for participating countries to learn from actions taken by Indonesia as the host country in tackling child labour. Participating countries will be taken to visit and observe activities taken by community learning centres located in Jakarta, targeting to among others street children, child scavengers in Bantar Gebang Bekasi and child domestic workers in Tangerang district.
In Indonesia, Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration has conducted various program on tackling chil labour which one of them is Reducing Child Labour to support Family Hope Program (ProgramPengurangan Pekerja Anak untuk mendukung Program Keluara Harapan). This program aim to target child labor and dropping out children from the very poor household.
Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration aim to withdraw a total of 11,000 child labor in 2013 in 21 provinces and 72 districts/cities in Indonesia. This target was increased from 10,750 in 2012. The success and challenges in implementing the program will be shared to the neighbourhood countries.
In addition, Cambodia will share its experiences on the implementation of a national social protection strategy with focus on child labour and education; while Viet Nam presents its strategy on school to work transition as an effort to mainstream child labour into education for all. Both Lao PDR and the Philippines will share their experiences dealing with data collection and analysis on child labour as part of policy development.
The Workshop also includes sessions on good practices on labour market policies as a way to move towards better policy recommendations in the region to tackle child labour. At the end of the third day, the Workshop will conclude with strategic planning and mapping to ensure that the region will be child labour free by the 2016.
The ILO estimates that 215 million children worldwide are child labourers. Meanwhile, the Indonesian Bureau of Statistics documents that there were 2.5 million of child labourers who are 5-17 years old in 2009. Many of them work long hours, and often in dangerous conditions, harming their physical, mental and social development. They are also either denied educational opportunities that would give them a better future, or they are obliged to balance education with work. Indonesia key stakeholders will benefit from this workshop by taking experiences and strengthening the collaboration among the neighbouring countries on tackling child labour.
The workshop is supported by the ILO through its Child Labour and Education Project, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The Project aims to strengthen the policy level linkages between work on child labour and education, leading to action that will improve the opportunities for those in or vulnerable to child labour to benefit from education. The campaign is part of a series of activities conducted by the ILO and its partners to highlight national efforts against child labour, particularly its worst forms.
For further information please contact:
Ms Dede Sudono
ILO’s National Project Officer for Education and Child Labour
Tel.: +6221 3913112 ext. 126
Ms Arum Ratnawati
ILO’s National Project Manager of Child Domestic Workers
Tel.: +6221 3913112 ext. 130