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Technical Cooperation Project Summary

Project Title

Follow-up to the Resolution on Child Labor Statistics Adopted at the 18th ICLS Through Methodological Development and Expansion of Child Labor Data Collection

Region/Country

Global

Project Duration

September 2009 — September 2012

Fiscal Year & Funding Level

FY2009: $3,000,000

Problem to be Addressed

Several advances have been made in the area of child labor statistics in the past decade, however, much more investigative research is required for the continued development of child labor statistics, especially with regard to some of the worst forms of child labor.

Project Objectives

  • Provide support to national child labor surveys to strengthen national child labor statistics and build national capacity in child labor data generation.

  • Support conceptual and methodological development in two areas identified in the 18th ICLS resolution – hazardous work and unpaid household services.

  • Support research on the health effects of child labor

  • support development of new technical guidelines for national baseline surveys

  • Support further development of child labor indicators for research, policy, and programming.

Summary of Activities

  • Conduct national child labor surveys (Afghanistan, Georgia, Ghana) & provide supplementary support to modular child labor surveys (2 countries TBD)

  • Technical report on statistical concepts/definitions on WFCL other than hazardous work

  • Technical guidelines for measuring street children Technical guidelines on measuring hazardous unpaid household services

  • Review paper on research methodologies on health impacts of child labor

  • Sector specific studies on health concomitants of child labor

  • Sampling manual for baseline surveys

Grantee

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

Contact Information

Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking

(202) 693-4843