Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour in Seasonal Agriculture in Hazelnut Harvesting in Türkiye Project Phase II

Under the Public Private Partnership framework, the project will continue to enhance and facilitate the exchange of government, private sector, social partners and civil society experience in addressing child labour, particularly in hazelnut supply chain, as a means to maximize collective learning opportunities among the project stakeholders for elimination of Worst forms of Child Labour in agriculture. Additionally, lessons-learned and good practices derived from the previous project intervention will be disseminated to other crop groups with a particular focus on good subject to export.

The overall development objective of the project is to contribute to the elimination of the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) in seasonal agriculture in line with the Turkish Government’s strategy of National Employment Strategy (to be updated) and the National Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour (to be updated).

The specific objective of the project is to enable and strengthen partnership between public and private sector actors for the withdrawal and prevention of children from the WFCL in seasonal agriculture in hazelnut harvesting. The project will catalyse cooperative approaches to addressing child labour by linking efforts undertaken by the private sector to the existing and future national programmes mentioned above.

Besides, the Project will increase the awareness of private companies and garden owners on the ongoing EU act on Due Diligence thus generating bottom-up demand for the implementation of its outputs and the achievement of its goals within, and where necessary beyond, the period of the project.

This public private partnership project, co-chaired with Ferrero and the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Services (MoFLSS) Directorate General of Labour will further complement existing ILO activities dedicated to the elimination of child labour in Türkiye.