Moving Towards a Child Labour Free Jordan

The launching of the ILO Project “Moving towards a Child Labour Free Jordan”, funded by the United States Department of Labour (USDOL), is a key element of the new Decent Work Country Programme being signed by the ILO tripartite partners on 11 March 2012. It is built on the premise that the twin goals of eradicating child labour and enforcing the right to education for all are achievable in Jordan within a relatively short time frame. This project will help design and develop action to address child labour in Jordan based on relevant policy and legislative frameworks and build the requisite capacities to underpin and sustain this action. The project engages various stakeholders at different levels in designing and implementing its work plan through the participation of relevant government ministries, national and international organisations, UN agencies, civil society organisations and social partners in the National Child Labour Committee and its Technical Committee both chaired and administered by the Ministry of Labour.

Objectives:

The project aims at achieving its goals through four main strategies.

• Establishing a comprehensive Child Labour Monitoring Systems (CLMS) to serve as a coordination to improve reporting, referral and follow-up.
• Enhancing the existing knowledge base on child labour, occupational safety and health and youth employment to guide future policy development.
• Building institutional capacity to support the implementation of the National Framework on Child Labour, including through a tripartite, inter-ministerial and inter-agency Technical Committee on Child Labour.
• Advocating for mainstreaming child labour and youth employment concerns into national development policy frameworks.