Rural skills training interventions to combat worst forms of child labour including trafficking (In Vietnamese)

Many agencies that address trafficking do so by offering vocational training to target groups, as part of a broader package of services. However, the effectiveness of such services varies, and vocational training offered by both public sector and NGO-based vocational training centres no longer forms a guarantee or even a likelihood for a job, and often has little impact on the economic situation of the trainees. The constraints to prospective trainees accessing vocational training are as follows: (i) general lack of training providers; (ii) inappropriate skills training programmes; (iii) the organization of the training.

Generally, the lack of wage jobs in rural areas would make skills training for self-employment (rather than vocational training for wage-employment) the best option for income-generation. Given that trafficking in children and women mainly occurs from rural and relatively underdeveloped areas, this paper focuses on ‘rural’ skills training, and should be read in conjunction with other TIA papers, in particular the one on micro-finance services (TIA-3).

Rural skills training services may be targeted at children older than 14 years of age, and parents whose children are at risk of being trafficked. The suggestions below should not be seen as ‘blueprints’ but should be interpreted in specific local contexts as there is no ‘one-best’ solution.