Bukidnon - Around 3,000 anti-child labour advocates, government officials and programme partners flooded the street of Malaybalay City during the Walk for a Child Labour-Free Bukidnon held on Labour Day, 1 May.
CNN's Kyung Lah reports on child labour in sugar harvesting in the Philippines. Many child labourers are in rural areas where families live in poverty. The Philippine government is trying to fight the problem, by reducing the worst forms of child labour by 75 per cent by 2015. In Northern Mindanao, the ILO, the Sugar Industry Foundation, Busco Sugar Milling and the Coca-Cola Foundation are building schools to remove children from sugar cane fields.
The Northern Samar Provincial Child Labor Committee (PCLC) will have a two-day strategic planning to discuss how it can effectively complement the efforts of the IPEC Project in Northern Samar by covering other areas and other components to fully eliminate child labour in the province.
The Bukidnon Provincial Child Labor Committee (PCLC) will have a two-day strategic planning to discuss how it can effectively complement the efforts of the IPEC Project in Bukidnon by covering other areas and other components to fully eliminate child labour in the province.
Consultant on value chain development will present for validation and approval the results of its study to stakeholders of Northern Samar province.
The Quezon Provincial Child Labor Committee (PCLC) will have a two-day strategic planning to discuss how it can effectively complement the efforts of the IPEC Project in Quezon by covering other areas and other components to fully eliminate child labour in the province.
The Masbate Provincial Child Labor Committee (PCLC) will have a two-day strategic planning to discuss how it can effectively complement the efforts of the IPEC Project in Masbate by covering other areas and other components to fully eliminate child labour in the province.
The Strategic Development Cooperation - Asia (SDC) will continue work on validating the subsectors initially selected as basis for livelihood activities and subject these to further value chain analysis.
The Strategic Development Cooperation - Asia (SDC) will continue work on validating the subsectors initially selected as basis for livelihood activities and subject these to further value chain analysis.
The IPEC Project will gather all its partners to level off on strategies, discuss updates and together develop measures to improve implementation.