Development of Global Guidance and Strengthening Social Dialogue in Selected Countries to combat Hazardous Child Labour in Tobacco Growing

The project aims to develop global guidance on hazardous child labour in tobacco growing and strengthen social dialogue in selected countries to combat child labour in agriculture. The global guidance will examine the nature and conditions of hazardous child labour in tobacco growing. It will promote tripartite action to ensure that children do not perform this work and will support decent youth employment opportunities for young people between the minimum working age and the age of 18. The global guidance will be based on existing and new research and its development will be facilitated by the ILO with advice from experts including from the tobacco sector, academia, and others, and will include tripartite consultations. In Malawi, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania, the project will provide technical support for tripartite meetings on child labour in agriculture. In Malawi and Uganda, the project will provide support for the implementation of the tripartite meeting outcome documents and strengthen the capacity of governments and the social partners to further develop and implement action plans to tackle child labour. The project builds upon the collaborative efforts of ILO and ECLT in Malawi to provide policy support to tripartite constituents to implement the agriculture component of the National Action Plan to combat child labour, and the declarations of the Malawi National Conference on Child Labour in Agriculture, held in 2012. It also builds upon the recent Tanzania National Sustainability Conference Pathways to Sustainability: Together We Can Eradicate Child Labour in Agriculture, held in May 2015.

Project symbol

GLO/15/06/ECT

Admin unit

IPEC

Start date

01/06/2015

End date

31/12/2018

Total allocation

1894295

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

1602237

Development Partners

Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco Growing Foundation (ECLT)

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Protection of workers from unacceptable forms of work