Accelerator Lab 8.7 USDOL Global Support: Intensify action against forced labor and child labor through innovation

In 2015, the United Nations adopted its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Among the targets to be achieved by Member States in the next 15 years, SDG 8 target 8.7 calls for immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labor, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labor, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labor in all its forms. The project will contribute to the Accelerator Lab 8.7 strategy, which focuses on the acceleration factors for progress on SDG 8.7, building on promising practices and identifying new solutions to end child labor and forced labor globally. Innovation is a cross-cutting marker that will support the actions of the project, at the global, regional and country levels, guided by the following key markers: due diligence and transparency in supply chains, strengthening workers’ voice, and social protection. These markers have been identified both based on past successful experience and on bringing in innovative approaches. The application of digital and technological solutions increasingly provides opportunities to address forced labor and child labor. A global digital platform where countries and stakeholders can share knowledge, good practices and lessons learned on what has worked will be developed. The project will also identify, pilot and roll out existing successful solutions and innovative solutions, including digital ones, to support the fight against forced labor and child labor at the global, regional and country levels. In terms of the due diligence maker, the ILO’s Child Labor Platform and Global Business Network on Forced Labor will be supported in their efforts to engage business to tackle child labor and forced labor with a focus on promoting due diligence and transparency in supply chains. At regional level exchanges of good practices with businesses and key stakeholders, will be supported in view of strengthening businesses’ due diligence processes, and explore the potential of public-private partnerships. In terms of the social protection marker, global dialogue on child labor and forced labor elimination through social protection will be fostered. In target countries the extension of social protection coverage to vulnerable households will be supported. In terms of the strengthening the workers voice marker, trade unions will be supported in their capacity to organize workers in the informal economy and expand their services, in particular to informal workers. Moreover capacity building to develop ICTs to prevent or mitigate forced labor and child labor will be supported as well as the identification of good practices to foster their replication.

Project symbol

GLO/21/21/USA

Admin unit

RO-Asia and the Pacific
FUNDAMENTALS
RO-Latin America and the Caribbean
CO-Kinshasa
FPRW
CO-Abuja
DWT-Bangkok
CO-Addis Ababa

Start date

15/12/2021

End date

14/10/2025

Total allocation

5818050

Total expenditure

Status

Active

5818050

Development Partners

USA, Department of Labor, Bureau for International Labor Affairs

Country/Countries

Malaysia
Global
Americas - regional
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Africa - regional
Nigeria
Ghana
Asia and the Pacific - regional

Outcomes

Outcome 1: Strong, modernized normative action for social justice
Outcome 7: Universal social protection
Outcome 4: Sustainable enterprises for inclusive growth and decent work