IPEC action against child labour 2010–2011: Progress and future priorities February 2012 International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) International Labour Office Copyright © International Labour Organization 2012 First published 2012 Publications of the International Labour Office enjoy copyright under Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention. Nevertheless, short excerpts from them may be reproduced without authorization, on condition that the source is indicated. For rights of reproduction or translation, application should be made to ILO Publications (Rights and Permissions), International Labour Office, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland, or by email: [email protected]. The International Labour Office welcomes such applications. Libraries, institutions and other users registered with reproduction rights organizations may make copies in accordance with the licences issued to them for this purpose. 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KEY DEVELOPMENTS 1 1.1 ILO Global Report.........................................................................................2 1.2 The Hague Global Child Labour Conference and follow-up..................................2 1.3 Global Action Plan and follow-up ....................................................................3 1.4 Child labour and the broader international agenda.............................................5 2. CHILD LABOUR WORLDWIDE 7 2.1 The global situation ......................................................................................8 2.2 Responses to the global economic and employment crisis ..................................8 2.3 Regional perspectives on child labour..............................................................9 3. PROGRESS TOWARDS IPEC TARGETS 15 3.1 Programme and Budget...............................................................................16 3.2 Reporting on other indicators of importance to IPEC........................................23 3.3 Some evidence of longer term results from tracer studies .................................25 4. IPEC ACTIVITIES DURING THE BIENNIUM 27 4.1 Human rights, and international labour standards and legal support to constituents ...........................................................................................28 4.2 Social dialogue and tripartite cooperation.......................................................28 4.3 Corporate social responsibility ......................................................................32 4.4 South-South/Triangular Cooperation ..............................................................32 4.5 International partnerships............................................................................34 4.6 Work with NGOs and the non-profit sector......................................................36 4.7 Education and child labour ..........................................................................38 4.8 Livelihoods supporting initiatives and child labour...........................................38 | iii 4.9 Child labour in agriculture ...........................................................................39 4.10 Child trafficking, and child labour and migration.............................................40 4.11 Child domestic labour .................................................................................41 4.12 The use of children in armed conflict and child labour in emergencies ...............42 4.13 Gender and child labour ..............................................................................43 4.14 Cooperation within the ILO, and capacity building and cooperation with the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO) ...........................................44 5. ADVOCACY AND KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT 45 5.1 Advocacy and awareness-raising ...................................................................46 5.2 Knowledge development and sharing.............................................................48 5.2.1 Child labour data...............................................................................49 5.2.2 Child labour and youth employment.....................................................51 5.2.3 Hazardous child labour ......................................................................52 5.2.4 Child labour monitoring......................................................................53 5.2.5 Social protection and child labour .......................................................55 5.3 Knowledge sharing tools ..............................................................................56 6. TECHNICAL COOPERATION 57 6.1 Project development ...................................................................................59 6.2 Programme delivery ....................................................................................59 6.3 Donor support ............................................................................................60 6.4 New IPEC projects......................................................................................63 6.5 Resource gaps............................................................................................63 7. PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT, PERSONNEL AND FINANCE 65 7.1 Human resources management and development............................................66 7.2 Field level structures...................................................................................67 7.3 Operational procedures................................................................................67 8. EVALUATION AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT 69 8.1 Comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation Strategies.......................................70 8.2 Impact Assessment and Evaluation ...............................................................70 8.3 Project evaluations in 2010–2011................................................................71 8.4 Strategic and thematic evaluations as part of knowledge building......................71 8.5 Follow-up to evaluations ..............................................................................71 iv | IPEC action against child labour 2010–2011 ANNEXES Annex I: ILO’s Programme and Budget for 2012–2013.......................................74 Annex II: Summary of the progress in achieving Indicators 16.1 and 16.2..............83 Annex III: IPEC Projects in 2010–2011..............................................................87 Annex IV: Progress towards universal ratification of the ILO Child Labour Conventions......................................................................................91 Annex V: Financial Tables................................................................................92 Annex VI: Evaluations completed in 2010–2011 ...............................................102 Annex VII: List of key publications ....................................................................104 Annex VIII: Active IPEC activities during 2010–2011...........................................106 Annex IX: Key trade union and employer activities supported during the biennium ........................................................................133