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Technical Cooperation Project Summary

Project Title

Supporting the National Policy and Program Framework for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor (WFCL) in Lebanon and Yemen: Consolidating Action against the WFCL

Region/Country

MIDDLE EAST/Lebanon and Yemen

Project Duration

September 30, 2004 – May 31, 2008 (revised)

Fiscal Year & Funding Level

FY 2004: USD 3,000,000

Problem to be Addressed

Lebanon and Yemen both successfully participated in first phase country programs to eliminate child labor, yet child labor remains a significant problem and the worst forms of child labor (WFCL) persist in both countries. 

Results

Lebanon: The project withdrew 1,015 and prevented 3,027 children from WFCL.  Children were targeted in the following provinces and sectors: the northeastern and southern suburbs of Beirut (informal urban economy); South Lebanon in Muhaffaat el-Nabbattiye (seasonal commercial agriculture) and Saida (fisheries); and in North Lebanon, including Tripoli (informal urban economy), Akkar, and Beqaa (seasonal commercial agriculture).

Yemen: The project withdrew 1,143 and prevented 453 children from WFCL.  Children were targeted in the following districts and sectors: Aden (fisheries); Hadhramout-Seyoon (rural child labor); and Sana’a (working street children).

Project Objectives

Contribute to the elimination of the worst forms of child labor in Lebanon and Yemen.

Intermediate objectives include:

  • Relevant governmental agencies, civil society organizations, workers, employers and international donors undertake coordinated actions to eliminate the WFCL in Lebanon and Yemen within a coherent legal and institutional framework; and
  • Reduce significantly the incidence of selected WFCL in targeted area.

Summary of Activities
  • Created an enabling environment to harmonize legislation, build national institutional capacity, strengthen enforcement and monitoring mechanisms, and raise awareness on the negative consequences of the WFCL; and
  • Implemented targeted, direct interventions to tackle the WFCL and prevent and/or withdraw children engaged in or at risk of engaging in WFCL through the provision of educational and other services.

Grantees

 

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

Implementing Partners

Lebanon: Ministry of Labor; Ministry of Education and Higher Education; Armenian Relief Cross; Municipality of Tripoli; Association of Lebanese Industrialists; General Confederation of Lebanese Workers (GCLW); LIBAMI; Rural Development Aid Organization (ADR); Hari Foundation for Sustainable Human Development; Amel Association; Development Council of Bourj El Barajneh; Kamel Youssef Jaber Social and Cultural Center; Nasma Learning and Resource Center.

Yemen: Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor; Sana’a Center Coordination Committee; Office of the Mayor of Sana’a; Working Children Rehabilitation Center in cooperation with the Governorate of Aden; Al Nahdha Cultural and Social Charity Organization.

Contact Information

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

(202) 693-4843