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Project Status — Asia

Country

Grantee

Project Focus

Amount

Fiscal Year Funded

Performance Period

Afghanistan

UNICEF

Education Initiative: Child soldiers

$3,000,000

2002
(completed) 

05/03-12/07

Asia: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program:  Trafficking

$3,000,000

2002
(completed)

09/02-03/06

Bangladesh

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program (Phases 1-3): Garment factories

$2,083,624

1995, 1996, 2001
(completed)

05/96-04/01 (Phase 1 and 2), 05/01--04/04 (Phase 3)

Bangladesh

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program/SIMPOC:  Bidis, Construction, Domestic service,  Leather tanning, Match industry, National survey 

$5,587,663

2000
(completed)

09/00-08/05

Cambodia

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program:  Fish/Shrimp processing, Rubber plantations, Salt production

$999,310

2001
(completed)

09/01-11/04

Cambodia

World Education

Education Initiative: Trafficking and Commercial sexual exploitation

$3,000,000

2002
(completed) 

09/03-09/30/07

Cambodia

Hagar Int.

Expanding economic activity

$500,000

2004
(completed)

09/04-07/07

Cambodia

ILO-IPEC

Timebound: Domestic work, Porters, Fishing, and Production of brick, salt, and rubber

$4,750,000

2004

09/04-12/08

Cambodia

Winrock

Combating the Worst Forms of Child Labor

$4,025,563

2007; 2008

09/07-09/11

Cambodia

ILO-IPEC

Combating the Worst Forms of Child Labor

$4,310,000

2008

09/08-09/12

Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program: Government capacity building, Research, Agriculture, Urban informal economy

$2,500,000

2004
(completed)

10/04-12/07

East and South East Asia

ILO-IPEC

Awareness Raising:  ILO/Japan/U.S. Asian Regional Child Labor Workshop

$45,000

1999
(completed)

11/99-12/99

India (*)

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program:  Bangles, Bidis, Brassware, Bricks, Carpets, Fireworks, Footwear, Locks, Matches, Quarried stones, and Silk  

$10,000,000

2001
(completed)

01/01-08/07

India (*)

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program:  Bangles, Bidis, Brassware, Bricks, Carpets, Fireworks, Footwear, Locks, Matches, Quarried stones, and Silk  

$4,000,000

2004

09/04-12/08

India (*)

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program:  Bangles, Bidis, Brassware, Bricks, Carpets, Fireworks, Footwear, Locks, Matches, Quarried stones, and Silk  

$6,333,602

2005

09/05-12/08

India

ILO-IPEC

Sector program

$548,000

2006

09/06-12/08

India

ILO-IPEC

Combating the Worst Forms of Child Labor

$6,850,000

2008

09/08-03/2012

Indonesia

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program:  Fishing, Footwear industries

$900,000

2002
(completed)

09/02-08/04

Indonesia

ILO-IPEC

Timebound:  Drug trafficking, Fishing, Trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation, Mining, Footwear

$5,565,000

2003
(completed)

09/03-3/08

Indonesia

Save the Children Federation

Education Initiative: Trafficking, domestic work, Commercial sexual exploitation, 

$6,000,000

2004

09/04-06/09

Indonesia

Save the Children Federation

Education Initiative:  Tsunami Relief

$2,500,000

2005

09/05-12/09

Indonesia

ILO-IPEC

Timebound: Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor - Phase II

$5,550,000

2007

09/07-09/11

Mongolia

ILO-IPEC

Country Program (Phases 1-2):  Animal herding, Coal mining, Commercial sexual exploitation, Rural domestic service, Selected urban sectors

$999,906

1999
(completed), 2002

10/99-07/02 (Phase 1), 09/02-05/05 (Phase 2)

Mongolia

ILO-IPEC

Timebound: Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor

$2,900,000

2005

09/05-12/09

Nepal

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program:  Commercial sexual exploitation, Trafficking

$170,000

1996
(completed)

08/97-07/99

Nepal

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program:  Elimination of Bonded labor

$1,618,465

2000
(completed)

12/00-08/05

Nepal

ILO-IPEC

Timebound:  Carpet sector, Domestic service, Porters, Mining, Rag picking, Trafficking

$5,200,000

2001
(completed)

09/01-08/06

Nepal

World Education

Education Initiative (Phase 1):  Education component of Timebound:   Carpet sector, Domestic service, Porters, Mining, Rag picking, Trafficking

$4,000,000

2001
(completed)

9/01-8/06

Nepal

World Education

Education Initiative (Phase 2):porters, recyclers/rag-pickers, domestic servants, carpet factory workers, mine/quarry workers, former bonded laborers (engaged in several occupations), brick factory workers, transport workers, and restaurant-entertainment workers (vulnerable to trafficking),

$3,845,000

2005; 2007

09/05-09/09

Nepal

ILO-IPEC

Sustainable Elimination of Child Bonded Labor - Phase II

$2,000,000

2006

09/06-09/10

Pakistan

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program (Phases 1-2):  Soccer ball industry

$1,865,575

1997, 2000
(completed)

07/97-07/02 (Phase 1), 07/97-09/04

Pakistan

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program (Phases 1):  Carpet sector

$2,055,146

1999
(completed)

04/99-04/04 

Pakistan

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program (Phases 2):  Carpet sector

$3,500,000

2002
(completed)

09/02-09/07

Pakistan

ILO-IPEC

Timebound:  Surgical instrument manufacturing, tanneries, coal mining, glass bangle production, rag-picking, and deep sea fishing.

$4,008,360

2003
(completed)

09/03-09/08

Pakistan

Save the Children - UK

Education Initiative:  Primary education and vocational training in Punjab province

$5,000,000

2001
(completed)

09/02-09/07

Pakistan

Save the Children - UK

Education Initiative

$4,350,000

2005 & 2007

09/05-09/09

Pakistan

ILO-IPEC

Earthquake Addendum

$1,535,000

2006

09/06-11/09

Philippines

ILO-IPEC

SIMPOC (Phases 1–2):  National survey

$500,000

1995, 2001
(completed)

Phase 1: 03/05 - 05/96; Phase 2: 07/01 - 10/02

Philippines

ILO-IPEC

Timebound Preparatory:  Research and stakeholder mobilization

$67,000

2001
(completed)

07/01-03/03

Philippines

ILO-IPEC

Timebound:  Commercial sexual exploitation, Domestic service, Mining and quarrying, Pyrotechnics, Sugar cane plantation farming

$5,199,198

2002
(completed)

09/02-8/07

Philippines

World Vision

Education Initiative:  Education component of national Timebound program

$5,003,427

2002
(completed) 

08/03-07/08

Philippines

World Vision

Timebound: Program to Eliminate the WFCL

$5,500,000

2007

09/07-09/11

South Asia: Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program:  Trafficking for exploitative employment

$1,789,426

1999
(completed)

02/00-12/02

South Asia: India, Nepal, and Pakistan

Macro International

Research in the Carpet Sectors

$3,500,000

2007

09/07-09/10

South East Asia: Indonesia, Philippines

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program:  Fishing industry

$980,000

1999
(completed)

10/99-06/04

South East Asia: Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program:  Informal footwear production

$1,960,000

1999
(completed)

10/99-10/02 (Philippines and Thailand), 10/99-06/04 (Indonesia)

South East Asia: Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program:  Drug sales, production and trafficking

$500,000

2002
(completed)

09/02-12/04

Sri Lanka

ILO-IPEC

Tsunami Relief

$562,408

2005
(completed)

03/05-03/08

Thailand

ILO-IPEC

Sector Program  (Phases 1-2):  Commercial sexual exploitation, Trafficking for exploitative employment

$690,000

1995, 1996 (completed)

09/95 - 08/96

Thailand

IJM

Child labor technical assistance

$702,906

2002
(completed) 

09/02-06/06

Thailand

ILO-IPEC

Combating the WFCL, including trafficking

$3,500,000

2006

09/06-03/10

Vietnam

ILO-IPEC

Country Program:  Hazardous informal work, Services sector work

$499,383

2001
(completed)

01/01-08/05

Total Funding =

$156,048,962

Total Projects =

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