Combating Child Labour in Central Asia. Commitment becomes Action (PROACT CAR Phase III). Award No. 500794 (GLO/10/19/FRG). 2011 and 2012 contribution.

The ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) has been working in Central Asia since 2005 to provide technical and financial assistance to the ILO constituents in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the implementation of the ILO child labour conventions – The Minimum Age Convention (1973) No 138 and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) No 182 – as well as in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of national child labour strategies, policies and programmes. In spite of important successes with previous projects, urgent action is still required in all the countries of Central Asia. The countries still need further technical assistance in their efforts to prevent and eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour by focussing more on policy level interventions, capacity building for social partners and awareness raising on the risks and hazards of child labour at the agriculture sector, with focus on cotton and tobacco. This project builds on the outcomes and achievements of the previous interventions, lessons learned and on the experiences acquired in the sub-region in working with the Government, social partners and other stakeholders in addressing child labour. The main strategy of this project is the combination of policy-related interventions to create a conducive environment with service-oriented activities at the community level. The project consists of two main components: a national and a regional one. At the national level, the project focuses on policy mainstreaming and up-scaling activities through the institutionalization of models of intervention previously tested; building the capacity and stimulating a greater involvement of government, workers’ and employers’ organizations, and awareness-raising on the causes and consequences of child labour and possible strategies to address the issue. The project in the three countries is planning to withdraw and to prevent working children from involvement in the worst forms of child labour through provision of a comprehensive package of services. At the regional level, the project facilitates the exchange of information among key stakeholders of the project participating countries. The project seeks to preserve institutional memory and enhance the organizational learning and the multiplier effect of the project.The good practices emerged from the implementation of the previous and the current projects shall be documented and further disseminated to the project partners for possible replication.

Project symbol

RER/11/51/FRG

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Moscow

Start date

01/01/2011

End date

30/04/2019

Total allocation

5445615

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

5423888

Development Partners

Germany, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Country/Countries

Europe and Central Asia - regional

Outcomes

Outcome 7: Adequate and effective protection at work for all