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Global Projects

Project Title

Enhancing national capacity in child labor data collection, analysis and dissemination through technical assistance to surveys, research and training

Region/Country

Global

Project Duration

September 2006 – September 2010 

Fiscal Year & Funding Level

Total: $6,834,467
FY2006: $3,734,467
FY2007: $3,100,00

Problem to be Addressed

Despite progress in the collection and dissemination of data on child labor, certain countries remain without reliable statistics with which to plan interventions to combat the problem.  Information on the worst forms of child labor is especially lacking.

Project Objectives

Development Objective:  To contribute to the elimination of child labor, particularly through better statistical estimates, quantifiable information and research for improved policy and program formulation.

  • Strengthen national knowledge on child labor through the establishment or extension of statistical information on child labor, with an emphasis on hazardous forms, and specific studies on bonded child labor.

  • Build national capacity through training for national counterparts on child labor concepts, data analysis, rapid assessments and baseline surveys.

  • Improve access to and usage of child labor statistics through the establishment of web-enabled mechanisms for accessing child labor statistics at the country, regional and global levels.

 Summary of Activities

  • Collect data on children’s work activities, including involvement in nationally-identified hazardous forms and other worst forms of child labor;

  • Publish reports with results of data collection, preparatory research reports for Oslo+11 international conference, case study on the Latin American experience of reducing child labor;

  • Develop national strategies for regular child labor data collection/monitoring;

  • Provide training on child labor data collection, analysis, and related activities;

  • Produce locally-adapted, replicable training materials;

  • Populate web-based systems with child labor data and refinement of these systems, including a technical report on the comparability of child labor estimates.

 Grantee

International Labor Organization’s International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC)

 Contact Information

Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking

(202) 693-4843