Preparatory Meeting for a Peer Review on Child Labour in Tajikistan
On 4 May 2016, a Preparatory Meeting and Capacity Building Workshop were held in Tajikistan to prepare for the upcoming Peer Review Process on child labour.
4 May 2016
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The meeting and workshop were prepared by an expert team from Kyrgyzstan and attended by 32 participants. Muhayo Khosabekova, ILO-IPEC National Coordinator in Tajikistan, presented the goals, objectives and various methodologies of peer reviews previously conducted as part of the ILO youth programmes and UNICEF efforts and briefed the participants on the upcoming Peer Review in Tajikistan.
Then the National Consultant of the project gave an overview of Tajikistan’s various interventions and activities aimed at eliminating child labour and implemented in the ILO-IPEC framework. The workshop also featured a presentation of a diagnostic tool designed to help the peer review team form Kyrgyzstan to assess Tajikistan’s performance in this area, identify strengths and weaknesses and areas for possible improvement with relevant recommendations. Workgroup meetings focusing on self-assessment helped to estimate the country’s level of preparedness for receiving the peer review team and to improve the participants’ understanding of the Peer Review purpose and partner expectations.
According to Muhammad Kurbanov, Deputy Chairman of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers, the capacity building workshop helped to form an understanding that peer reviews can bring countries together and facilitate the sharing of lessons learned, followed by the creation of a common platform to address the child labour issues. This will help Tajikistan to improve its policy making and implementation, adopt best practices, comply with the universally established standards and principles, and enable a mutually beneficial sharing of expertise between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan based on systematic reviews.
The workshop participant endorsed the methodology, tools and draft agenda of the upcoming Peer Review on child Labour to take place in September 2016.
Then the National Consultant of the project gave an overview of Tajikistan’s various interventions and activities aimed at eliminating child labour and implemented in the ILO-IPEC framework. The workshop also featured a presentation of a diagnostic tool designed to help the peer review team form Kyrgyzstan to assess Tajikistan’s performance in this area, identify strengths and weaknesses and areas for possible improvement with relevant recommendations. Workgroup meetings focusing on self-assessment helped to estimate the country’s level of preparedness for receiving the peer review team and to improve the participants’ understanding of the Peer Review purpose and partner expectations.
According to Muhammad Kurbanov, Deputy Chairman of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers, the capacity building workshop helped to form an understanding that peer reviews can bring countries together and facilitate the sharing of lessons learned, followed by the creation of a common platform to address the child labour issues. This will help Tajikistan to improve its policy making and implementation, adopt best practices, comply with the universally established standards and principles, and enable a mutually beneficial sharing of expertise between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan based on systematic reviews.
The workshop participant endorsed the methodology, tools and draft agenda of the upcoming Peer Review on child Labour to take place in September 2016.