Publications on Child Labour in South Asia
IPEC publications and resources
Child Labour – Legislation, Policy, Plans of Action and Discussion Papers
- Sri Lanka’s Roadmap 2016 On the Worst Forms of Child Labour: From Commitment to Action (2010)
- Child labour in Bangladesh: A forward looking policy study (2005)
National and Regional Statistical Survey Reports and Related Documents
- Child Activity Survey Sri Lanka 2008-2009 / Report (2011)
- Sri Lanka: Child labour data country brief (2008)
- Nepal Child Labour Report: Based on data drawn from the Nepal Labour Force Survey 2008
- Bangladesh: Child labour data country brief (2008)
- Measuring child labour: Discussion note for country consultation in Bangladesh (2007)
- Ethical considerations when conducting research on children in the worst forms of child labour in Nepal, 2005
- Report on national child labour survey in Bangladesh (2003)
- Report on the Working Children in Metropolitan Cities of Bangladesh (Establishment-based Child Labour Survey) (2002-2003)
- Child Activity Survey - Srilanka (1999)
- Summary results of child labour situtation in Pakistan (1996)
- Child Labour Situation in Nepal (Report from Migration and Employment Survey (1995-1996)
Strategy-Focused
- Impact of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on child labour (2014)
- Mainstreaming child labour issues in key development policies and programmes – Sri Lanka (2010)
- Sustainable prevention of child labour through community-based child labour monitoring – Nepal (2010)
- Knowledge-based mapping and review of child labour information in Sri Lanka (2007)
- Mapping of duty bearers and stakeholders for partnerships and social mobilisation for the elimination of child labour – Sri Lanka (2007)
- Manual for Child Labour Monitoring and Verification: Vol I – Bangladesh (2004)
Documentation of Experience, Good Practice, Lessons Learned and Case Studies
- Prevention and Elimination of Child Labour in Global Supply Chains: the Soccer Ball Industry in Pakistan - CSR Case Study (2010)
- Addressing poverty to eliminate child labour in post-crisis settings (2010)
- A Report on Trend and Country Responses to the Child Labour: Reflections on Achievements, Challenges, Gaps & Way Forward – Bangladesh (2009)
- On the road to a healthier and happier life. Rehabilitation of Child Labour. Stories of success and hope (INDUS Project) (2007)
- Mining and Quarrying - Case Stories – Nepal (2006) - Stone crushing – Gravel
- ILO-IPEC in Pakistan: Achievements of a Decade [1994 – 2004] (link to pdf)
- From Stitching to School-Elimination of Child Labour in the Soccer Ball Industry in Sialkot, Pakistan (2004)
- Combating Child Labour in Pakistan (1997)
- A Decade of ILO-India Partnerships: Towards a future without Child Labour (1992-2002)
Specific to ILO Social Partners – Employers’ and Workers’ Organizations and Child Labour
- India: Safety and health for sandstone mine workers (2016)
- Coming together: From confrontation to collaboration, a tale of trade unions joining hands against child labour – India (2002)
Bonded Labour (Thematic Material - Research, Reports, Tools, Others)
- Forced labour of adults and children in the agriculture sector of Nepal focusing on Haruwa-Charuwa in Eastern Tarai and Haliya in far-western hills – Nepal (2013)
- Buried in bricks: A rapid assessment of bonded labour in brick kilns in Afghanistan (2012)
- Report of the meeting of consultants on methodologies to estimate the prevalence of forced labour of adults and children (Kathmandu, 30 November - 1 December 2010) (2011)
- Successful Strategies and Experiences in Combating Child Bonded Labour in Nepal (2010) (link to pdf)
- Nepal - Bonded labour among child workers of the Kamaiya system: A rapid assessment (IWFCL, no 5) (2002)
Child Domestic Labour (Thematic Material - Research, Reports, Tools, Others)
- Bangladesh - Baseline survey on child domestic labour in Bangladesh (2006)
- The communication strategy for Child domestic labour – Pakistan (2006)
- Baseline Survey on Child Domestic Workers, Nepal, 2003 (dataset)
- Sri Lanka - Child Domestic Labour: A Rapid Assessment (IWFCL, no. 26) (2003)
- Nepal - Situation of Domestic Child Labourers in Kathmandu: A rapid assessment (IWFCL, no 3) (2001)
Trafficking and Migration (Thematic Material - Research, Reports, Tools, Others)
- Sub-study on Migrant Child Labour Component - India (2009)
- Rehabilitation of Victims of Child-Trafficking: A Multidisciplinary Approach (2006)
- Child-Friendly Standards and Guidelines for the Recovery and Integration of Trafficked Children (2006)
- Anti-child Trafficking Legislation in South Asia: A Six-country Review (2006)
- Demand side of human trafficking in Asia: Empirical findings (TICSA-II) – BGD & PAK (2006)
- Compassionate Care: Proceedings of Workshops, Directions in Community-based Care, and Social Reintegration for Nepal (TICSA-I) (2006)
- Creating a healing environment: Psychosocial rehabilitation and occupational integration of child survivors of trafficking and other worst forms of child labour (South Asia), vol. 1 (2002)
- Rapid assessment on trafficking in children for exploitative employment in Bangladesh (2002)
- Cross border trafficking of boys: Nepal (2002)
- Creating a healing environment: Psychosocial rehabilitation and occupational integration of child survivors of trafficking and other worst forms of child labour (South Asia).vol II (2002)
- Specialised Training Manual on Psychosocial Counselling for Trafficked Youth (2002)
- Migration of Working Children in Nepal (Report from Migration and Employment Survey 1995/1996)
Hazardous Work (Thematic Material - Research, Reports, Tools, Others)
- The effect of work on children's health - Report of research on ten occupational sectors in Pakistan (2013)
- Pilot Survey 2010: Working Children in Dry Fish Industry in Bangladesh
- Findings from the impact assessment study in Bidi Sector – Bangladesh (2005)
- HIV & AIDS and Working Children in Nepal (2004)
- Baseline Survey Report on Child Labour in Coal Mines Industry Chakwal, Nowshera and Shangla - 2004 – Pakistan
- Report of the Baseline Survey on Child Workers in Road Transport Sector 2003 – Bangladesh (2004)
- Baseline Survey on Child Workers in Battery Recharging/Recycling Sector 2002-03 – Bangladesh (2004)
- Impact of Working Time on Children's Health – Bangladesh (2004)
- Baseline Survey Report on Child Labour in Surgical Instruments Manufacturing Industry Sialkot - 2004 – Pakistan
- Baseline Survey Report on Child Labour in Glass Bangles Industry Hyderabad - 2004 – Pakistan
- Baseline Survey Report on Child Labour in Kasur Tanneries - 2004 – Pakistan
- Report on Baseline Survey on Working Children in Automobile Establishments 2002-03 – Bangladesh (2003)
- Baseline Survey of Street Children in Bangladesh – Report (2003)
- Baseline Survey on Child Ragpickers, Nepal, 2002-2003 (dataset)
- Baseline Survey on Child Porters, Nepal, 2002 (dataset)
- Baseline Survey on Child Workers in Welding Establishments in Bangladesh 2002-2003
- Child Labour in Nepalese Carpet Sector: A Rapid Assessment (2002)
- Nepal - Situation of child rag pickers: A rapid assessment (IWFCL, no 4) (2001)
- Nepal - Situation of child porters: A rapid assessment (IWFCL, no 6) (2001)
Commercial Sexual Exploitation (Thematic Material - Research, Reports, Tools, Others)
- Good practices in Asia: Prevention and Rehabilitation (2006)
- Demand Side of Trafficking in Asia: Empirical Findings (2006)
- Internal trafficking among children and youth engaged in prostitution in Nepal (2002)
- Trafficking and sexual abuse among street children in Kathmandu (2002)
- Sri Lanka - Commercial sexual exploitation of children: A rapid assessment (IWFCL, no 18) (2002)
- Nepal - Trafficking in girls with special reference to prostitution: A rapid assessment (IWFCL, no 2) (2001)
Natural Disasters and Armed Conflict (Thematic Material - Research, Reports, Tools, Others)
- Mapping of child labour in flood affected districts in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan (2011)
- Mapping of Child Labour in flood affected districts in Thatta, Pakistan (2011)
- Prevention of child recruitment and reintegration of children associated with armed forces and groups: Strategic framework for addressing the economic gap – Sri Lanka (2007)
Child Labour and Education (Thematic Material - Research, Reports, Tools, Others)
- Understanding children's work country report in Bangladesh (2011)
- Child Labour and Education in Bangladesh: Evidence and Policy Recommendations (2009)
- Report on young workers and protection - Testing of tools (2008)
- (INDIA) Give them back their childhood: sensitization module for school children and youth on child labour (2006)
- Impact of children’s work on school attendance and performance: a review of school survey evidence from five countries – Sri Lanka (2005)
- Step by step: Examples of how countries determine hazardous child labour – (Components on PAKISTAN & SRILANKA (2004)
ILO-South Asia Regional and Inter-Agency Partnerships
Evaluations and Impact Reports
- Convergence against Child Labour: Support for India’s Model - Final Independent Review (2013) (link to pdf)
- Convergence against Child Labour: Support to India's Model - Interim Review (2012)
- Support to the Implementation of Nepal’s National Master Plan on the Elimination of Child Labour (2012) (link to pdf)
- Pakistan Earthquake: Child Labour Response - Independent Final Evaluation (2011)
- Preventing and Eliminating Child Labour in Identified Hazardous Sectors Project – Joint Final Evaluation (2009) (link to pdf
- Sub Study on Impact of INDUS child labour project on policy and programmes for elimination of Child labour in India (2009)
- Project of Support to the National Time Bound Programme on the Worst Forms of Child Labour Pakistan - Mid Term Evaluation (2007)
- Project of Support to the National Time Bound Programme on the Worst Forms of Child Labour Pakistan 2003-2008 - Final Evaluation Report (2008)
- Combined Evaluation of ILO/IPEC garment sector projects as part of the "Memorandum of Understanding" framework with the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association - Final Project Evaluation (2004)
- Elimination of Child Labour in Soccer Industry in Sialkot, Pakistan Phase II - Final Project Evaluation (2004)
- Elimination of Child Labour in the Soccer Ball Industry in Sialkot, Pakistan - Evaluation Report (1999)
- Preventing and Eiliminating the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Selected Formal and Informal Sectors in Bangladesh - Mid Term Evaluation (2003)
- South Asia Subregional Programme to Combat Trafficking in Children for Exploitative Employment (TICSA) - Final Project Evaluation (2002)
World Day Against Child Labor Activity Reports
- World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) 2015: Report from Pakistan
- World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) 2015: Exploring Education Strategies to Address Child Labour in India: Summary Report of the Technical Consultation in India
- World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) 2012: Human rights and social justice - Let's end child labour – Activities
- Report on the World Day Against Child Labour 2011 "Warning: Children in Hazardous work - End Child Labour" in Pakistan
- Compiled Field Reports from Dhanusha, Siraha, Saptari, Dang, Banke, Bardiya, Kailali and Kanchanpur Districts of Nepal (2009)