FORCED LABOUR-GLOBAL: Irish Aid-ILO Partnership Programme, Phase II, 2014-15

ILO’s most recent global estimate of 21 million women, men and children in forced labour has highlighted the scale and manifestations of this major human rights challenge. Growing international attention paid to this problem has led to the engagement of more actors but the impact of anti-forced labour interventions still falls short of the desired outcome, namely a significant reduction of the number of victims. One of the reasons is that current anti-forced labour responses adopt largely repressive, rather than long-term preventive approaches. The global action programme against forced labour aims at generating the necessary knowledge and political will to tackle forced labour at its root causes by advancing research on the economics of forced labour, by strengthening national data and by providing policy advice. The strategy is based on a three-pronged approach: 1) to strengthen research and knowledge management, 2) to develop tools to eliminate forced labour from global value chains and 3) to strengthen national capacity to eliminate forced labour.

Project symbol

GLO/13/56/IRL

Admin unit

FPRW

Start date

01/01/2014

End date

31/03/2016

Total allocation

969727

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

970549

Development Partners

Ireland, Irish Aid

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Protection of workers from unacceptable forms of work