Preventing and Eliminating Selected Worst Forms of Child Labour in the Urban
Informal Economy of Dhaka City
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Donor(s) |
Duration: 4 years
Starting date: March 2001 |
Government of the Netherlands |
The Government of the Netherlands has provided financial support
to implement an urban informal sector child labour project in the
metropolitan city of Dhaka. This four-year programme aims at removing
approximately 24,000 children from hazardous work in the urban informal
sector (battery recharging, blacksmith shops, metal workshop helpers, automobile repairing, welding and painting, metal casting,
plasto-rubber, vulcanising, carpentry, shoe factories, plastic recycling, chemicals, and dyeing), where
children are exposed to gas, fumes, harmful chemicals, and sharp equipment, and preventing children
from entering the labour market in Dhaka city.
The strategy of the project is to mobilize a broad alliance of actors both at the national and local levels
in taking joint action against hazardous child labour in the informal sector through a four-pronged
approach:
- Systematic withdrawal of children in hazardous work and prevention
of child labour;
- Creation of viable alternatives for the children and their families
(10,000);
- Workplace monitoring and inspection mechanisms;
- Advocacy and awareness raising.
Multipurpose centres (85) and vocational training centres (2) serve as focal points for service delivery
(non-formal education, skills development training, and social and economic empowerment) and
community mobilization and participation. Supplementing services (e.g. primary healthcare) are provided
by other private and public service providers through strategic partnerships.
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