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Technical Cooperation Project Summary

Project Title

Reporting on the State of the Nation’s Working Children: A Statistical Program for Advocacy on the Elimination of Child Labor and the Protection of Working Children in the Philippines

Region/Country

ASIA/The Philippines

Project Duration

July 2001 – August 2003

Fiscal Year & Funding Level

FY2001: USD 237,476

Problem to be Addressed

The results of the 1995 survey were instrumental in generating awareness and creating campaigns and action programs for the elimination of child labor.  This second survey was meant to help determine the impact of these initiatives.

Project Objectives

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

  • At the end of the program, quantitative data on child labor will have been produced, processed, analyzed and disseminated.

Summary of Activities
  • Administered a household survey module (attached to the quarterly labor force survey) to investigate child labor practices in the Philippines and inform related policy;
  • Developed a cost-effective, periodically-reproduced national assessment of child labor;
  • Created a database on quantitative and qualitative data on child labor; and
  • Used the data to develop national policy papers and inform IPEC projects.

Grantee

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

Implementing Partners

National Statistics Office of the National Economic and Development Authority Committee; Department of Labor and Employment

Contact Information

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

 (202) 693-4843