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Supporting the Time-Bound Programme in Nepal: The ILO-IPEC TBP Support Project

The development objective of the TBP Support Project was to contribute to the master plan for the elimination of child labour. Combining sector wise, area based and thematic strategies, the IPEC Support TBP project had a two-tier approach to eliminating the worst forms of child labour:

• On the one hand, the aim was to create, at the national level, an enabling environment for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour. The main elements of this strategic component were to strengthen legislation and its enforcement, to produce new pro-poor as well as child-friendly labour, social and poverty alleviation policies, to make education effective in preventing child labour, and to raise awareness against the worst forms of child labour;
• On the other hand, the Project aimed to reduce the incidence of children trapped in seven selected worst forms of child labour. Specifically, interventions were designed in the areas of access to education, basic healthcare, recreation and legal protection, in addition to reduction of economic vulnerability and social mobilization.

In consideration of the nature and magnitude of the Nepal overall Time-Bound Programme, a high-level inter-ministerial committee on the elimination of child labour, composed of high-level representatives of various ministries, as well as representatives from FNCCI (Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry), trade unions, and the ILO was established at the national level.

World Education International has been commissioned by the US Department of Labour to provide educational services to the same children being reached by the IPEC Core TBP Project. IPEC and World Education International worked closely to develop complementary strategies that make the best use of their resources, and have developed a common tracking system and data base for all beneficiaries. As much as possible, IPEC and World Education International worked with the same implementing partners, which is particularly important when reaching children in conflict affected regions

Certain initiatives existing before the TBP were integrated into the IPEC Core TBP Project. These are:

• The IPEC Project for Combating Child Trafficking for Labour and Sexual Exploitation, Component of the Subregional Project TISCA:
  
  

  Time-frame	Donor(s)
  Duration: 7 years Starting date: June 2000 Ending date: November 2007	US Department of Labour (USDOL)

  Trafficking is a process that in most cases leads to the worst forms of child labour. The IPEC Core TBP Project aims at withdrawing 1,000 children who have been trafficked. It was also designed to reach thousands of children vulnerable to trafficking and the worst forms of child labour.

• Bonded Labour - Italian Social Partners Component:
  The Italian Social Partnership Initiative (ISPI) against child bonded labour (Commuity Action Project for the Elimination of Child Bonded Labour from Exploitative and Hazardous Work - Phase III) was mainstreamed into the TBP. Approaches were undertaken by this project on a large scale through the IPEC/Declaration Project on sustainable Elimination of Bonded Labour. In order to avoid duplication, the community action project, in its third phase (July 2003 - June 2006) developed new interventions for addressing the issues of some other forms of debt bonded labour relations such as Hali, Harwa and Charwa, which were not covered by the Kamaiya Labour Prohibition Act (2001). It also targeted children working under exploitative and hazardous conditions in stone quarries, brick kilns, as well as in hotels and teashops.