Project of support to the implementation of the National Action Plan against child labour in Tunisia (NAP-TN) 2015-2020

The overall objective of the project is to support the Government of Tunisia and key stakeholders to implement the NAP-TN against child labour, through building the capacity of the Ministry of Social Affairs (MSA), workers’ organizations (the Tunisian General Labour Union, UGTT) and employers’ organizations (Tunisian Union of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, UTICA, and Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fishery, UTAP), and strengthening collaboration with key stakeholders including the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Women, Family and Children, the Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Justice as well as potentially other Ministries (such as the Ministry of Health, the National Institute of Statistics, the Ministry of Youth and Sports and/or the Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries), and development partners. Within this, pending further consultations with the stakeholders, linkages will be established to the issue of forced labour, by providing technical assistance on trafficking issues. The project will in particular provide technical assistance to the Government, employers’ and workers’ organisations and other key stakeholders to implement activities to achieve the following priorities laid out in the NAP-TN: - Priority 1 (objectives 1 and 2): Strengthening and harmonizing legislative and institutional frameworks to combat child labour; - Priority 2 (objective 1): Improving the knowledge base on child labour - Priority 3 (objective 3): Strengthening protection and prevention mechanisms to combat child labour. Under this priority, this project will mainly contribute to objective 3, which focuses on the child labour monitoring system. - Priority 4 (objective 1): Strengthening technical and operational capacities of relevant stakeholders to combat child labour - Priority 5 (objectives 1 and 2): Strengthening the role of education and vocational training to combat child labour - Priority 6 (objective 1): Enhancing sensitization and social mobilization to combat child labour. The project activities will be coordinated nationally by the Tripartite Steering Committee of the National Action Plan for the fight against child labour in Tunisia, composed of fifteen members representing the Government, social partners and civil society.

Project symbol

TUN/16/02/USA

Admin unit

CO-Algiers

Start date

01/09/2016

End date

31/08/2023

Total allocation

3960475

Total expenditure

Status

Active

3960475

Development Partners

USA, United States Department of Labor, Bureau for International Labor Affairs, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking

Country/Countries

Tunisia

Outcomes

Outcome 1: Strong, modernized normative action for social justice