| Project Number |
IND/00/01P/ITA |
| Government Counterpart |
Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India; Department of Labour, Government of Karnataka |
| Partners / Donors |
Italy |
| Total Project Budget |
$ 3,626,767 |
| Location (State and District) |
Karnataka - Chamarajnagar & Bidar Districts |
| Duration |
2005 - 2009 |
| Sector(s) |
Child Protection/Child Labour/Adolescent Employment/Skill Training/Livelihood Improvement |
| UNDAF/MDGs |
UNDAF Priority 1, MDG 2 |
| Contacts |
In New Delhi
Ms. Neetu Lamba, Programme Officer, Tel: +91 11 24602101 ext. 211
or
In Bangalore
Mr. Sanjiv Kumar, Project Coordiantor, Tel: +91 80 65605744; 25727418 telefax 25729106
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Background
The above project was originally conceived for the elimination of child labour in the Sericulture
Industry in the district of Bangalore Rural. Subsequently, with the drop in the number of child
labour in the Sericulture Industry as per the figures depicted in the 2001 Child Census of the
State, the scope of the Project now covers the worst forms of child labour and economic exploitation
among adolescents in Chamarajnagar and Bidar districts of Karnataka. Implementation of the Project
started in August 2005 and will end in August 2009. The Project is funded by the Department of
Cooperation, Government of Italy.
The two districts of Chamarajnagar (with scheduled caste and scheduled tribe population) and
Bidar (large minority and scheduled caste population) a re backward in terms of literacy,
poverty, out of school children, and other development indices as compared to the rest of
the State. Interventions are needed to strengthen the State Child Labour Project Society
in each of these two districts so that there can be an effective mechanism in the prevention
of child labour which is prevalent mainly in the informal sector, in the hotel industry,
in garages, handicrafts, agarbati making, brick making, mining, agriculture based, and
sericulture industries. Between 14+ to 18 years, a large number of children join the labour
force without the benefit of any formal vocational skill upgradation, which makes them extremely
vulnerable to economic exploitation and lack of decent earning. The Project addresses these issues
including the development of appropriate remedial teaching learning material for bridge schools
for rehabilitated child workers.
Objectives
Development Objectives
- To contribute to the Government of India's efforts to combat
the worst forms of child labour and reduce the vulnerability of adolescents to
economic exploitation through an integrated package of technical assistance in
the areas of education, training and income generation and upgrading of local industries.
Immediate Objectives
- Prevention and withdrawal of child labour through awareness raising and education.
- To adapt, implement and institutionalize the ILO's Community based Training (CBT)
and Start /Improve Your Business (S/IYB) methodologies for employment and income generation
at the local or district level.
- To provide community based skills training and self employment support
services for Project beneficiaries.
- Formation of self help groups of mothers of released child workers and formation of
Block level and District level federation of such SHGs.
- Identification of appropriate vocational training institutions for delivering skills
training programmes utilizing modular training techniques.
- Upgrading local industries for better working conditions and child labour free production.
- Strengthen grass root level institutions, block level institutions, National
Child Labour Project Society, and state level institutions.
- To set up a Community monitoring setup and network the same with grass root
institutions so as to monitor out of school children and child labour and ensure
convergence of services for the benefit of child workers and their families.
- Policy research, innovation and advisory services are being conducted and completed on
- Bridge School curriculum Remedial teaching & learning material
- Technology related issues in the silk industry
- Vocational educational policy
- Informal sector social security advocacy and child labour
- Informal sector child labour issues
- Child track systems.
Strategy
- On the demand side of the Child Labour issue, the Project investigates and researches the
causes and works closely with the employers and workers organization to experimentally
introduce child labour free technology and improved working conditions.
- On the supply side preventive and self sustaining efforts address the issues of
livelihood (both parents and the older child worker), education, mindset
(of all the stake holders), social protection and social exclusion.
- Strengthen collective action of the community and convergence of various
government and other programmes through the formation and empowerment of mothers
self help groups; provide capacity building to other community based organizations.
- Setting up of community monitoring structure involving grass root institutions (School -
SDMC, Anganwadi - Mother's committees, Gram Panchayat) and self help groups, for sustaining
the efforts beyond the project period.
- Stress on the 'family approach' enables other members of the working child's family
to avail of the services provided. They will be provided supplementary income generation
opportunities (training of parents and at-risk adolescents on income generation skills
and assistance for self employment). Formation of a Labour Cooperative to safeguard
against exploitation.
- The project works on employments and employability in all the three sectors of the economy - Primary (agriculture and allied activities), Secondary (manufacturing and processing). Tertiary (services etc).
- Intensive Research conducted under the Project will contribute to an adaptable,
implement able and coherent vocational training (suitable for children in the age
group of 14 to 18 years), education and policy on convergence of various relevant
services for child labour elimination.
- The Project has developed appropriate remedial teaching learning material and
tools for awareness raising, capacity building and mobilization of all the stakeholders.
- Project emphasizes preventive action through sustained counseling of children
and parents for which school teachers, Anganwadi workers and others are given suitable training.
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