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Project Activities
 

  

Key Activities

 

•   Improve access and quality of education for working and At-risk children in the target areas.

• Engage communities, civil society and local governments in promoting education and the  eradication of child labor.

• Strengthen national institutions and policies to effectively address the issues of child labor and education.

• Ensure the sustainability of project activities and benefits to the primary stakeholders.

• Provide 2,250 mainstreaming education support packages to targeted children aged 7-13 to assist in their withdrawal from exploitive labor and reintegration into the formal education system.

• Provide 1,500 non-formal education support packages to targeted children aged 7-13 to assist in their withdrawal from exploitive labor and reintegration into non-formal education and vocational training programs.

• Provide 1,500 formal education support packages to targeted at-risk children aged 6-15 to prevent them from exploitive child labor.

• Provide 1,500 formal education support packages and transportation assistance to targeted at-risk girls aged 12-14 to help them transition from primary to secondary school.

• Improve the capacity of key individuals and institutions to combat child labor and provide quality education through innovative policy measures.

• Implement a community awareness program to provide information on the distinction between child work and exploitive child labor in subsistence agriculture and freshwater fishing.

• Conduct participatory research on the causes and extent of child labor in subsistence agriculture, tobacco and cassava farming, and fishing.

• Establish or strengthen Child Labor Monitoring Committees in 150 villages to monitor child labor at the local level.

• Offer life-skills and other programs, classes and services to targeted children, their parents and members of the community.

 

Activity
Age Range
Sample Selection Criteria
Specific Needs
Boys
Girls
Total Direct Beneficiaries
Education Support for Withdrawn Child Laborers
6 to 14
Children engaged in the WFCL in agriculture and children engaged in hazardous work Children dropped out of school within the past year to perform labor in agriculture.
Withdrawal, reduce number of working  hours and transition into formal school
1,125
(50%)
1,125
(50%)
2,250 Withdrawn
Provision of NFE and Livelihood Skills
15 to 17
Older children engaged in exploitative child labor in agriculture who have dropped out or never attended school
Withdrawal and transition into NFE and livelihood programs
600
(40%)
900
(60%)
1,500 Withdrawn
Education Support for At-Risk Children
6 to 14
 Children with at least one sibling engaged in exploitative labor in agriculture Children living in extreme poverty and orphans and children from single-parent households
Prevent from WFCL through provision of material support for formal education
1,200
(40%)
1,800
(60%)
3,000 Prevented
Education Support for At-Risk Girls Transitioning into Secondary School
12 to 14
 Girls with at least one sibling engaged in child labor in agriculture Children living in extreme poverty and orphans and children from single-parent households Girls living in areas with a secondary school more than 5 km away
Prevent from WFCL through provision of material support (including transport) for formal education
0
1,500
(100%)
1,500 Prevented

 
Funding Provided by United States Department of Labor under Cooperative Agreement IL-16567-07-75-K