Project list
ILO Action on Child Labour in South Asia.
In the 1990s, with the establishment of the ILO’s global technical cooperation programme, the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), the ILO intensified it technical cooperation on child labour. This was made possible with funding from development partners.
In South Asia, IPEC project implementation started in the early 1990s, supporting countries through the basic Country Programme modality to strengthen or establish systems and tripartite mechanism, undertake research and assessments to learn about the extent and nature of child labour, develop capacities for planning and implementation, forge partnerships with civil society organizations and other stakeholders and test of innovative intervention models,
Over the years, project action has further included integrated interventions focusing on a variety of child labour issues including Education and training; Fragile situations (particularly resulting from natural disasters and armed conflict); Policy, capacity development and research; Urban informal economy; Public, private and sectoral partnerships; National, state and district programmes; and Worst forms of child labour. (See Projects List and links below)
In South Asia, IPEC project implementation started in the early 1990s, supporting countries through the basic Country Programme modality to strengthen or establish systems and tripartite mechanism, undertake research and assessments to learn about the extent and nature of child labour, develop capacities for planning and implementation, forge partnerships with civil society organizations and other stakeholders and test of innovative intervention models,
Over the years, project action has further included integrated interventions focusing on a variety of child labour issues including Education and training; Fragile situations (particularly resulting from natural disasters and armed conflict); Policy, capacity development and research; Urban informal economy; Public, private and sectoral partnerships; National, state and district programmes; and Worst forms of child labour. (See Projects List and links below)
Education and Training
Fragile Situations - Natural Disasters and Conflict
- PAKISTAN Earthquake – Child Labour Response (Oct 2006 – Aug 2011)
- SRI LANKA : Emergency Response to Child Labour in selected Tsunami affected areas in Sri Lanka (Mar 2005 – Jun 2010)
Policy, Capacity Development and Research
Policy and Capacity Development
- BANGLADESH : Country Level Engagement and Assistance to Reduce Child Labour (CLEAR) (Global project – implemented in Bangladesh) (Dec 2013 – Nov 2017)
- NEPAL : Towards Achieving the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour as Priority (ACHIEVE) – Nepal (Aug 2011 – May 2016)
- INDIA: Converging Against Child Labour: Support for India’s Model (Sept 2008 – Jun 2013)
- SRI LANKA : Sri Lanka Roadmap 2016 (Jun 2010 – Jul 2010)
- SRI LANKA : Combating exploitation of child domestic workers – TCRAM (Sri Lanka) (Jan 2003 – Jan 2004)
- SRI LANKA : Country Level Engagement and Assistance to Reduce Child Labour (CLEAR) (Global project - Sri Lanka Component (2015 - 2017)
- PAKISTAN : Activating media in combating worst forms of child labour in Pakistan (Phases I - II) (Jul 2003 – Dec 2010)
Reserach
- BANGLADESH : Child Labour Survey (1996)
- NEPAL : Child Labour Survey (2008)
- PAKISTAN : Child Labour Survey (1996 - 97)
- SRI LANKA : Child Activity Survey – Sri Lanka (Aug 2008 – Dec 2009)
Public-Private and Sectoral Partnerships
- BANGLADESH : Elimination of Child Labour in the Garment Factories in Bangladesh (Phases I-III) (Sep. 1996 - Apr 2004)
- PAKISTAN : Elimination of Child Labour and Promotion of Decent Work in Stora Enso Value Chain, with focus on Pakistan
- PAKISTAN : Combating hazardous and exploitative child labour in surgical instruments manufacturing through prevention, withdrawal and rehabilitation – Pakistan (July 2003 – July 2007)
- PAKISTAN : Combating Child Labour in the Carpet Industry Phase I, II and III – Pakistan (Apr 1999 – Dec 2008)
- PAKISTAN : Elimination of Child Labour in the Soccer Ball Industry in Sialkot, Pakistan (Phases I-II) (Feb 1997 – Mar 2008)
- Soccer Ball Industry in Sialkot Kit
National, State and District-based programmes
- INDIA : Targeting the Worst Forms of Child Labour: combating child labour and economic exploitation among adolescents in the sericulture industry in Karnataka (India) (Nov 2002 – Aug 2008)
- BANGLADESH : Supporting the Time-Bound Approach to Eliminating the Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL) in Bangladesh (Jan 2003 – Jun 2008)
- INDIA : Combating Child Labour in India: A pilot state-based approach in Andhra Pradesh (Phases I-II) (Jun 1999 – Oct 2007)
- NEPAL : Supporting the Time-Bound Program on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Nepal (Sep 2001 – Nov 2007)
- PAKISTAN : Supporting the National Time-Bound Program (NTBP) on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Pakistan (Aug 2002 – Jun 2008)
Urban Informal Economy
Worst Forms of Child Labour
Sale and Trafficking, Debt Bondage and Serfdom, Armed conflict
- PAKISTAN : Combating Abusive Child Labour (Phases I-II) – Pakistan (1997 – Mar 2013)
- SOUTH ASIA : South Asian sub-regional programme to combat the trafficking of children for exploitative employment in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka (TICSA Phases I-II) (Jun 2000 – Nov 2007)
- NEPAL : Sustainable elimination of child bonded labour in Nepal (Phases I- II) (Jan 2001 – Dec 2010)
- SOUTH ASIA : Community Action for Elimination of child bonded labour from Exploitative and Hazardous Work (Phase III) - (Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka) (Nov 2002 – Jul 2006)
- SRI LANKA : Prevention and reintegration of children involved in armed conflict: an inter-regional programme (Sep 2003 – Sep 2009)
- Prostitution, production of pornography or such performances
- Illicit activities, production and trafficking of drugs, etc.
Hazardous Work
- INDIA : INDUS - Preventing and Eliminating Child Labour in Identified Hazardous Sectors in India (Phases I-III) (Jan 2001 – Mar 2009)
- BANGLADESH : Preventing and Eliminating Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL) in Selected Formal and Informal Sectors in Bangladesh (Sep 2000 – Aug 2005)
- INDIA : Integrated area-specific approach against hazardous and exploitative forms of child labour – India (1999 – 2007)
Country Programmes
- BANGLADESH Country Programmes : 2000-2002
- INDIA Country Programmes : 1992-2004
- NEPAL Country Programme : 1995-2002
- PAKISTAN Country Programmes in Pakistan 1996-2006
- IPEC Pakistan Information Kit
- ILO-IPEC in Pakistan: Achievements of a decade (1994-2004)
- Combating Child Labour in Pakistan - IPEC in Pakistan
- Combating Child Labour - IPEC in Pakistan
- Press releases on Child Labour (1996- 97)
- Employers' and Workers' activities - 1997
- Flyer on Combating Child Labour in Pakistan - 1997
- Brochure on Combating Child Labour - IPEC Action Programmes - 1997
- Brochure on Combating Child Labour - IPEC Action Programmes - 1996
- IPEC Newsletter 1995
- IPEC Pakistan Information Kit
- SRI LANKA :Country Programmes : 2002 - 2006