Presentations to the Barbados national education seminar on Achieving SDG Target 8.7

DAY ONE

Session 1: Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals in the Caribbean - The importance of SDG 8 and the imperative of Target 8.7 by Ana Lopez

Session 2: Understanding Child Labour and its Worst Forms - A look at ILO Conventions 138 and 182 by Diego Rei

Session 3: The Barbados context and the legislative and policy frameworks for the prevention and elimination of Child Labour - and especially for tackling WFCL

• Presentation on Barbados situation past strategies and responses, child protection policies and programmes by Denise Nurse
• Barbados: legal and policy perspectives on child labour pre and post COVID-19 by Barbara Cooke-Alleyne

Session 4: Whither child labour in Barbados by Heather Stewart, UNICEF

DAY 2

Session 5: The LAC Regional Strategy to Combat Child Labour - Critical considerations in the context of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Now more than ever by Noortje Denkers

Session 6: Good practices on national strategies and programmes in the Caribbean for the prevention and elimination of Child Labour and WFCL

• Country presentations from- Sasha (CL Focal Point), Head of Labour Inspectorate Unit, Ministry of Labour
• Country presentation Guyana- Randy Burkett (CL Focal Point), Labour Inspector, Ministry of Labour

Session 7: School to work transition for Bajan Youth - the importance of protected work and training for adolescents (through Apprenticeships) as part of preventive and protective strategies to fight child labour

• Ministry of Youth and Community Empowerment
• Ministry of Labour and Social Partnership Relations
• Employers’ Organization (WIBISCO)

DAY 3

Session 8: National Collaboration for the protection of Children in the context of Covid-19: thematic focus on WFCL and prosecution of CL by Resel Melville