NORAD Assisted Integrated Child Labour Rehabilitation
Project (NORAD Component of the BGMEA/ILO/UNICEF Project-Phase II)
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Donor(s) |
Duration: 4 years
Starting date: April 2000 |
Norwegian International Development Agency (NORAD) |
This project was launched in October 1999 during the second phase of the BGMEA/ILO/UNICEF Project.
The overall strategy of the NORAD component has been to create better income opportunities for the
families of child workers and thereby contribute to the gradual elimination of child labour.
The major components of this project are:
- Skills training for ex-working children and their capable adult
family members;
- Entrepreneurship training for children and family members to
start their own businesses or improve their existing business,
if any;
- Micro credit programme for selected families of child workers
for enhancing the family income.
The target groups during Phase I (October 1999-November 2000) were similar to those of the ISPI
component. Both projects targeted ex-garment workers below the age of 14 years who had been removed
from work and placed in school under the MoU signed between the BGMEA, the ILO and UNICEF,
as well as their family members.
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