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Technical Cooperation Project Summary

Project Title

Towards child labor monitoring as a tool for prevention, protection, and withdrawal of children from work

ILAB Program

International Child Labor Technical Assistance

Region/Country

GLOBAL

Project Duration

September 2002 – October 2005

Fiscal Year & Funding Level

FY2005: $986,975

Problem to be Addressed

Child labor monitoring (CLM) systems work to strengthen compliance with core labor standards and verify that children prevented from entering or removed from work have access to school and other suitable alternatives. Currently a general model or prototype for developing and sustaining a child labor monitoring system does not exist.

Project Objectives
  • Contribute to the elimination of child labor, especially the worst forms, by stimulating and verifying the removal of children from hazardous and exploitive labor conditions and their transfer to appropriate alternatives.
  • A knowledge base created on child labor monitoring systems that includes tested approaches, lessons learned, a “prototype” model, and adaptations of the model for specific sectors and conditions.
  • IPEC project staff, ILO constituents, and selected institutional partners have the capacity to implement and adjust the basic model to their own situations.

Summary of Activities
  • Develop guidelines, a handbook, training manuals and tool kits on child labor monitoring.
  • Provide training to IPEC staff, ILO constituents, labor inspectors on CLM.
  • Provide technical assistance to projects carrying out CLM activities.

Partner Organizations

Executing Agency:
International Labor Organization (ILO) - International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC)

Implementing Agency:
International Labor Organization (ILO) - International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC)

Contact Information

Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking
(202) 693-4843