A - Technical cooperation, the basic tool for transforming the fundamental labor standards into practice, is implemented by means of an interaction between the Organization's competent technical services. The programs always incorporate issues of gender and tripartite cooperation, and usually are funded by essential donations.

Some of the most recent initiatives involving forced and child labor include:

Nepal: the program promotes the rehabilitation of child and slave laborers. It involves training, education, improvement of livelihoods and vocational training.

Brazil: the project aims at strengthening and improving the coordination of activities carried out by government agencies and other partners against forced labor and preventing re-incidence. It gives priority to all social partners involved in the creation of an effective system of inter-relations.

Benin, Burkina Faso and Mauritania: these projects aim at encouraging a more effective application of the fundamental conventions; each project was the result of an exhaustive review of existing obstacles to the application of the fundamental principles and rights, including those related to child labor and slave labor. All of these must involve the development of an action program, designed for solving the problems that have been identified.

Madagascar: this project has involved a study about the local situation regarding forced labor and the development of an action plan for its elimination.

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