Understanding Children's Work - Action Against Child Labour

This project aims to end violence, exploitation and abuse of children, with a focus on the progressive elimination of child labour. The Understanding Children’s Work Programme (a joint ILO-UNICEF-World Bank initiative) provides a global platform for child labour policy dialogue, partnership building and research cooperation. The goal of the project is to support partner agencies and national governments in improving the statistical information on child labour in its various dimensions – its nature, extent, causes and consequences – as well as on what policy approaches are most effective in addressing it. The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) strengthened national tracking and monitoring of the elimination of child labour, including in support to country-owned policies and plans; (2) increased accountability and monitoring of progress in the child labour field, including the post-2015 development agenda; and (3) increased effectiveness of partnerships to address child labour. A wide range of stockholders, including the ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank conduct country-level research on child labour and youth employment challenges to gain a better understanding of these issues and advance policy dialogue. Overall, the project promotes research addressing key knowledge gaps and the effective use of this research in the design of comprehensive policies and programs aimed at addressing child labour and youth employment. Project research outputs shall constitute an input to the World Child Labour conference in Argentina in 2017, while the indicators and statistics produced as part of the project will help in monitoring the post-2015 goals relating to the child labour and youth employment.

Project symbol

GLO/15/07/CAN

Admin unit

FPRW

Start date

24/03/2015

End date

31/12/2018

Total allocation

560980

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

481771

Development Partners

Canada, Global Affairs Canada

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Outcome 7: Adequate and effective protection at work for all