International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) Time-Bound Programme in the Philippines

The International Labour Organization’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) supported the National Programme Against Child Labour (NPACL) in its goal of reducing the worst forms of child labour by 75 per cent by 2015.

Objectives

• Strengthen the enabling environment for child labour elimination through legislative and policy reforms, research and data generation, and advocacy to shift public attitudes;
• Reduce the incidence of selected worst forms of child labour through direct interventions for children and their families.

Through education, non-formal services, and awareness-raising initiatives, the project withdrew and prevented 44,500 girls and boys from six of the worst forms of child labour:

• plantation and sugarcane,
• domestic work,
• fishing,
• commercial sexual exploitation or prostitution,
• mining and quarrying
• pyrotechnics production.

To address the root causes of child labour, families received support for decent work and sustainable livelihoods, including literacy training, microcredit, and vocational and business skills development.