Project of Support for the National Time-Bound Programme (TBP) to Help
Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour from Pakistan
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Donor(s) |
Duration: 4 years
Starting date: October 2003 |
US Department of Labour (USDOL) |
In November 2003, IPEC launched its new initiative, called Project
of Support for the National Time Bound Programme (TBP) to Help Eliminate
the Worst Forms of Child Labour from Pakistan. This Project of Support
aims at assisting the Government of Pakistan to concretise its national
TBP to implement the ILO Convention No. 182 and eliminate the worst
forms of child labour. The Project has both upstream and downstream
interventions. In its downstream intervention, the Project directly
targets the community level through the provision of social protection
to an estimated 11,800 children working in hazardous sectors by
providing non-formal education, literacy, pre-vocational and skills
training in non-hazardous occupations, and awareness of occupational
safety and health (OSH) related issues, in seven targeted districts
across the four provinces of Pakistan. Via the upstream interventions,
the Project assists the Government of Pakistan in revising the Employment
of Children Act, 1991, the National Policy and the Plan of Action
to Combat Child Labour to reflect the Government's commitment under
the ILO Convention No. 182, apart from other policy level interventions.
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