Indonesia: Projects

Project title

Start date

End date

Donor

Preparation and design of IPEC project documents funded in 2002

30 April 2002

31 October 2006

United States

Objective: The overall objective of the project is to develop and finalize for submission to the United States Department of Labour, 21 project documents by July/August 2002 and prepare the background documents by March 2003 that will enable IPEC to formulate project proposals for Time-Bound Programs in Ecuador, Pakistan, Senegal, Turkey, Thailand and Indonesia, as soon as donor funding has been identified.

 

Combating child labour in the fishing and footwear sector in Indonesia

30 September 2002

31 March 2006

United States

Objective: This project will consist of a two - part strategy. The first part will focus on promoting change in the policy and enabling environment. It will include work on promoting the fight against child labour in national and local policy and programme frameworks, improving the knowledge base, improving the legal environment, awareness raising and advocacy, and building the capacity of stakeholders. The second part will involve direct targeted interventions in five sectors identified by the National Action Plan as priority areas for the elimination of child labour. Through programmes in these areas the project will aim to remove children from the worst forms of child labour and prevent other children entering such work.

 

Combating child trafficking for the worst form of child labour

30 September 2002

31 December 2006

United States

Objective: The project aims to contribute to a reduction of child trafficking in each participating country, through interventions at sub-regional and country levels. It will focus on institutional, raising awareness and capacity building activities. The vulnerability of children at risk will be reduced and the services provided by non-governmental organisations and government will be improved.

 

South East Asia drugs trafficking project

30 September 2002

31 March 2006

United States

Objective: The aim of the project is to contribute to the prevention and elimination of one of the worst forms of child labour – the use of children in the production, sales and trafficking of drugs. At the end of the project, public institutions and stakeholders in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines will have enhanced their understanding on the targeted recruitment and use of children in the production, sales and distribution of illegal drug.

 

Elimination of child labour in the tobacco growing sector in selected countries funded by ECLT (Elimination of child labour in tobacco foundation)

30 December 2002

31 December 2007

Elimination of child labour in tobacco foundation

Objective: The purpose of this project is to contribute to the progressive elimination of child labour in commercial agriculture in selected countries. To this end, it will aim to the reduction of the incidence of child labour in the tobacco sector and to the strengthening of the capacity of community and partner agencies to eliminate hazardous child labour in tobacco.

 

Including the Excluded: Action against the worst forms of child labour through education networking

01 January 2003

30 April 2006

Netherlands

Objective: The main objective of the project is to contribute to the elimination of child labour through mainstreaming of child labour in education policies, plans and programmes at both global and national levels. The project facilitates global and national dialogues and provides technical assistance and policy advice to governments, teachers and other key actors. The project also engages actively in strengthening national, regional and global knowledge base on the education challenges and opportunities through direct support efforts to explore and strengthen education service delivery to child labourers and children at risk.

 

Preventing and Eliminating Exploitative Child Domestic Work through Education and Training in South East an East Asia

01 March 2004

28 February 2006

Netherlands

Objective: The purpose of the project is to contribute to the progressive and effective elimination of child labour in East and South East Asia and is composed by 2 strategic components. Firstly, the creation of an enabling environment through building knowledge and capacity building activities in order to raise the awareness on child labour and push to a legal reform. Secondly, direct actions such as education, legal assistance, training and counselling.

 

Enhancing national capacity in child labour data collection, analysis and dissemination through technical assistance to surveys and training

30 September 2006

30 September 2011

United States

Objective: The current project proposal is aimed at responding to these continuing information and capacity building needs. It will involve support to counterpart training and catalytic support to national child labour surveys, to help both strengthen national child labour knowledge bases and build national capacity in regular child labour data generation and utilization. The project will also support the development of web-enabled mechanisms to ensure the effective dissemination and “mainstreaming” of child labour data. Moreover, it will assist countries in conducting in-depth research on the mechanisms and determinants of child bonded labour, one of the worst forms of child labour identified for priority action by Convention No. 182.

 

Education and Skills Training for Youth Employment (EAST)

01 November 2006

31 October 2011

Netherlands

Objective: The Government of Indonesia has taken a number of important initiatives to enhance education and skills training for young people and to expand the employment opportunities for young people as they enter the labour force. This programme will support and build upon these initiatives, drawing upon ILO expertise and tools in the areas of child labour, vocational training, entrepreneurship development and youth employment. The programme will focus on working at the local level in a number of the most disadvantaged provinces mainly in Eastern Indonesia, where young people face additional barriers to acquire the skills and training needed to be able to find a job.

 

Project of Support to the Indonesian Timebound Program on the elimination of the worst forms of child labor - Phase II

30 September 2007

30 September 2011

United States

Objective: The purpose of this project is to support Indonesia’s time-bound program by a) withdrawing children from, and prevention of exploitive child labour through community based programs and b) further strengthening the policy and enabling environment to tackle child labour. The proposed project builds on the strategy of the first phase project, while introducing several new and innovative components.

 

Mobilisation and capacity-building of teacher trade union in Indonesia

01 July 2008

30 June 2011

Japanese Trade Union Confederation (RENGO)

Objective: The aim of this project is to contribute to the elimination of the worst forms of child labour in Indonesia and to efforts to prevent children from entering such forms of child labour in future by supporting the implementation of the ILO’s Global Action Plan to Eliminate Child Labour