NEPAL : Successful Strategies and Experiences in Combating Child Bonded Labour (2011)

With support from ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, Government of Nepal with social partners (employers’ & workers’ organizations) and other partners tested models of interventions that focused on resolving child bonded labour problem. These efforts continued through two phases of the ILO-supported SECBL project.

Successful Strategies and Experiences in Combating Child Bonded Labour in Nepal, reflects the commendable progress of the Sustainable Elimination of Child Bonded Labour project; it is based on what the project partners consider successful approaches in addressing the issues of child bonded labour. Sharing of the experiences will encourage the replicating and scaling up of the strategies so that the goal of preventing and eliminating child bonded labour is achieved in the foreseeable future – with children enrolled in school and families engaged in decent work. Nepal has ratified a number of the ILO’s core conventions related to bonded labour and child labour, and this project provided effective technical assistance in understanding the issues and demonstrating how the problems could be confronted.