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Technical Cooperation Project Summary

Project Title

Statistical Program for Advocacy on the Elimination of Child Labor and the Protection of Working Children in Central America

Region/Country

THE AMERICAS/Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama

Project Duration

October 1999 – December 2003

Fiscal Year & Funding Level

FY 1999: USD 2,210,173

Problem to be Addressed

The lack of standardized national-level data on child labor practices in Central America, the Dominican Republic and Panama.

project objectives

Development Objective:
To contribute to the collection of reliable data to support effective interventions against child labor.

  • At the end of the project, quantitative and qualitative data on child labor will have been collected, processed, analyzed and disseminated.

Summary of Activities

Research Design:
Data on child labor were collected through modular surveys in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and stand-alone surveys were carried out in Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Honduras.

  • To obtain detailed data on the extent and nature of child labor in Central America; and
  • To integrate data into the regional child labor database.

Grantee

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

Implementing Partners

Ministries of Labor in respective countries; Central Statistical Office (Belize); National Institute of Statistics, INEC (Costa Rica); National Statistics Office (Dominican Republic); General Department of Statistics and Census of the Ministry of Economics, DIGESTYC (El Salvador); National Institute of Statistics, INE (Guatemala); National Institute of Statistics, INE (Honduras); Ministry of Labour, MITRAB (Nicaragua); Department of Statistics and Census of the General Audit Office, DEC (Panama).

Contact Information

Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT)

(202) 693-4843