Offside Project: Marking the field! Improving the Capacity of Labor and Agriculture

The present project focuses on “Improving the Capacity of Labor and Agriculture Stakeholders to Address Child Labor in Agricultural Areas in Argentina” within the framework of the Child Labor National Action Plan 2018-2022. It aims at effectively engaging key actors with labor and agriculture mandates to have a greater understanding of the challenges and opportunities for co-ordinately addressing child labor in agriculture through their national, provincial and municipal networks. The project will implement the following strategies: (1) Knowledge generation and information to provide labor and agricultural stakeholders with in-depth analyses and data on child labor in agriculture; (2) Political advocacy and awareness raising for high and mid-level civil servants at national, provincial and municipal levels (as well as for the general public, including rural communities and families), to highlight the importance of reducing child labor in agriculture using both a human rights as well as an economic perspective; Capacity development to provide the methods and tools for ensuring targeted policies, programs and/or services that contribute to the prevention and eradication of child labor and to the promotion of protected adolescent work in agriculture; and (4) Intervention model design for improving local coordination mechanisms around the referral system to address child labor in agriculture; these models, from four municipalities in three target provinces: Buenos Aires, Mendoza and Santa Fe, will then be scaled up at the national level based on the testing methods and tools, and relevant good practices and lessons learned will be systematized. The strategy, outputs, and activities of this project have been developed with the Ministries of Labor and Agroindustry at the national and provincial levels, as well as with workers’ organizations (CGTRA, CTA, UATRE), employers’ organizations (UIA and its member sectoral organizations, and companies part of the Network of Enterprises against Child Labor), and civil society organizations (SES Foundation) to ensure total alignment with the National Plan of Action. The project will last 44 months and has a budget of USD 2,490,000.

Project symbol

ARG/18/01/USA

Admin unit

CO-Buenos Aires

Start date

01/01/2019

End date

30/11/2024

Total allocation

3125000

Total expenditure

Status

Active

3125000

Development Partners

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

Country/Countries

Argentina

Outcomes

Outcome 1: Strong, modernized normative action for social justice