a girl speaks with child labour banners behind

Child labour

Achieving reduction of child labour in support of education

The ILO and the Government of Japan through the ILO-Japan Multi-bilateral Programme have partnered to reduce the worst forms of child labour in agricultural communities and support education in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

A youth leader speaks to community members about child labour in Maguindanao de Sur, Philippines. © ILO/Remar Pablo
Project details

1 October 2020 - 30 June 2025

ILO/Japan Multi-bilateral Programme

RAS/19/07/JPN

Cotabato, Philippines

Ma Jennylyn Aguinaldo, Project Manager

Agriculture remains to be the sector where most children engaged in child labour can be found. Northern Mindanao had the highest proportion of child labour, where three in every ten children aged 5 to 17 years (29.6 per cent) were working, and one in every ten were from the former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in 2011, now the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

Project objectives:

  • Support the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) government to develop effective strategies to combat child labour.
  • Integrate child labour issues into social, economic and developmental policies.
  • Promote universal education.
  • Develop a skilled labour work force in an institutionalized manner.

Child labour data drives change in Bangsamoro

Integrated area-based approach:

Reduce child labour, improve education

Increase economic empowerment, social mobilization

Improve regulations, develop institutions

  • Photo of Ma Jennylyn Aguinaldo
    Ma Jennylyn Aguinaldo
    Project Manager
  • Photo of Elias Salazar
    Elias Salazar
    Project Officer
  • Photo of Robert John Lu
    Robert John Lu
    Finance and Administrative Assistant
  • Photo of Tohamie Moneb
    Tohamie Moneb
    Driver

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