Third party monitoring (TPM) on child and forced labour in Uzbekistan

World Bank has taken a decision to implement a Third Party Monitoring (TPM) within the World Bank project portfolio in Uzbekistan, particularly in the following projects: “Improving Pre-primary and General Secondary Education Project” (Global Partnership for Education grant), “Rural Enterprise Support Project, Phase-II”, (RESP II, including associated “Additional Financing” to this Project and “GEF Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change Mitigation Project”), “Horticulture Development Project”, “South Karakalpakstan Water Resources Management Improvement Project”. This contract is part of a wider set of developmental objectives that may entail other projects being added in the future with the agreement of the Government of Uzbekistan. In this context, this contract is subject to extension. The ILO is approached by the World Bank to carry out the assessment of any potential use of child and forced labour by WB projects’ beneficiaries in specific projects areas, with particular emphasis on the cotton harvest season. The development objective of the project is to improve the social sustainability and development effectiveness of the World Bank’s portfolio by regularly monitoring any issues related to the potential use of child and forced labour by project beneficiaries in specific project areas in Uzbekistan. The overall strategy of the project will rely on two sets of interventions: first, Third-Party Monitoring of child labour for the WB projects in Uzbekistan (Objective 1) and second, Third-Party Monitoring of forced labour for the WB projects in Uzbekistan (Objective 2).

Project symbol

UZB/15/02/WBG

Admin unit

FPRW

Start date

01/04/2015

End date

31/05/2022

Total allocation

7678798

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

7403704

Development Partners

World Bank Group

Country/Countries

Uzbekistan

Outcomes

Outcome 7: Adequate and effective protection at work for all