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IPEC Evaluation Stop Child Labour in Agriculture: contribution to the prevention and elimination of child labour in Mexico, in particular, its worst forms in the agricultural sector, with special focus on indigenous children and child labour as a result of migration P.260.06.238.052 / MEX/09/50/USA An independent final evaluation by a team of external consultants Master version in Spanish February 2014 This document has not been professionally edited. IPEC/EVAL/2014/07 NOTE ON THE EVALUATION PROCESS AND REPORT This independent evaluation was managed by ILO-IPEC’s Evaluation and Impact Assessment section (EIA) following a consultative and participatory approach. EIA has ensured that all major stakeholders were consulted and informed throughout the evaluation and that the evaluation was carried out to highest degree of credibility and independence and in line with established evaluation standards. The evaluation was carried out by a team of external consultants1. The field mission took place in November –December 2013. The opinions and recommendations included in this report are those of the authors and as such serve as an important contribution to learning and planning without necessarily constituting the perspective of the ILO or any other organization involved in the project. Funding for this project evaluation was provided by the United States Department of Labor (USDOL). This report does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the United States Department of Labor nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the United States Government. 1 Emma Lucía Rotondo, Team leader; Pilar Campos, National consultant. Stop Child Labour in Agriculture: contribution to the prevention and elimination of child labour in Mexico, in particular, the WF in the agricultural sector, with special focus on indigenous children and child labour as a result of migration – Final evaluation – February 2014 ii Table of contents Executive summary .................................................................................................................................... iv Abbreviations ............................................................................................................................................. xii Part A: Evaluation framework .................................................................................................................. 1 Chapter 1: Final independent evaluation ............................................................................................. 1 1.1 Purposes .................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Methodology .............................................................................................................................. 1 1.3 Methodological limitations ........................................................................................................ 2 Chapter 2: The project ......................................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Description ................................................................................................................................ 3 2.2 Context....................................................................................................................................... 4 2.3 Evolution ................................................................................................................................... 5 Part B: Findings and results ....................................................................................................................... 8 Chapter 3: Objective 1 - Strengthen legal, institutional and policy framework to prevent and eliminate child labour, in particular its worst forms in the agricultural sector ................. 8 Chapter 4: Objective 2 - By the end of the project, social partners are implementing actions to eliminate child labour in agriculture ............................................................................... 11 Chapter 5: Objective 3 - By the end of the project, knowledge base to inform actions of key actors to combat child labour in agriculture is increased ..................................... 13 Chapter 6: Objective 4 - By the end of the project, pilot demonstrative direct action interventions for withdrawal and prevention of children from work in agriculture will have been implemented and documented in selected states .................. 15 Chapter 7: Response to the midterm evaluation recommendations .................................................. 19 Part C: Results analysis ............................................................................................................................ 21 Chapter 8: Project design .................................................................................................................. 21 Chapter 10: Project effectiveness ........................................................................................................ 23 Chapter 11: Project efficiency ............................................................................................................. 24 Chapter 12: Project sustainability ....................................................................................................... 25 Part D: Conclusions................................................................................................................................... 27 Part F: Recommendations ........................................................................................................................ 31 Part G: Potential good practices .............................................................................................................. 33 Annex I: Terms of Reference (ToR) ........................................................................................................ 35 Annex II: Fieldwork agenda (in Spanish) ............................................................................................... 60 Annex III: List of interviewed persons (in Spanish) .............................................................................. 64 Annex IV: Matrix of the federal y state results (in Spanish) ................................................................. 66 Annex V: Instruments (in Spanish) ......................................................................................................... 78 Annex VI: Fieldwork guidelines (in Spanish) ......................................................................................... 91 Stop Child Labour in Agriculture: contribution to the prevention and elimination of child labour in Mexico, in particular, the WF in the agricultural sector, with special focus on indigenous children and child labour as a result of migration – Final evaluation – February 2014 iii Executive summary Project design Generally speaking, the project design is valid considering the proposed objectives and strategies which complement one another to deal with the issue of elimination of child labour (ECL) from its multiple causes. In the project design there are 4 (four) primary elements identified as positive: One, the strategy of co-responsibility. “The ECL is everyone’s task” has had a positive result. It is applied through four valid objectives in appropriate geographic areas, convening all influential sectors on the result of preventing and eliminating child labour in its worst forms, directly or indirectly. This fosters the birth of alliances and work groups in the states (as with the CITI2). The call made to all key stakeholders has been a good decision. The presence of the federal’s and state’s Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) and Ministries of Health has had an important effect, although these are mainly present in the CITIs, and have not had an active role, which has limited reaching the target group with the necessary services for prevention and elimination. Two, the use of available information for the analysis of the situation on child work has been effective. This has resulted in identifying states and communities for intervention. Likewise it is good to have a specific component to improve knowledge regarding child labour. This has resulted in lessons and recommendations that this evaluation identifies. Three, the inclusion of the production value chain in the strategy; this involves new actors such as transporters and sugarcane producers. This also takes advantage of previous ILO work with the sugar sector, which has standards and demands from the international market in child labour matters, thus supporting the adoption of changes. Four, the inclusion of a follow up system of migrant child labour, the Direct Beneficiary Monitoring and Reporting System for Migrants (DBMR-M), as it supports registration and verification of prevention and withdrawal of child and adolescent workers, and accountability in a context where there are no follow up or control systems in place. In the lessons learned section, other aspects of the DBMR-M are reflected upon. Project relevance In Mexico, the majority of working children and adolescents carry out their activities in the farming sector, in the manufacturing industry, in construction, in commerce and in services, affecting their health, education and development. It is estimated that some 3,014,800 children and adolescents are involved