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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 Zambia

ILAB Program

Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking /Statistical Information and Monitoring Program on Child Labor (SIMPOC)

Region/Country

AFRICA/Zambia

Project Duration

September 1999 – August 2003

Fiscal Year & Funding Level

FY1999: $289,775

Problem to be Addressed

The lack of standardized national level data on child labor in Zambia, especially the worst forms.

Project Objectives

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

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

Summary of Activities

Research design: Child labor survey module attached to a household survey with a sampling frame of 8,000 households using a stratified sampling design. Qualitative surveys to investigate the extent and nature of street children and child prostitution.

  • Administer a household survey module to investigate child labor practices to inform related policy;
  • Utilize data collected to develop national policy papers and IPEC country program priorities; and
  • Inform direct actions on street children and children in commercial sexual exploitation.

Partner Organizations

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

Implementing and Collaborating Agencies
Central Statistical Office; Food Health and Nutrition Information System; Ministry of Labor and Social Security; Ministry of Youth, Sports, and Child Development; Department of Labor. UNICEF is also providing funds through the Food Health and Nutrition Information System (FHANIS).

Contact Information

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

(202) 693-4843