Policies, Partnerships, Learning & Local Empowerment (PPLL): A Regional Child Labour Project for South Asia

The project aims to contribute to the acceleration of actions against child labour in South Asia. The project is implemented in India and Nepal. The project approaches sustainability by building stakeholders’ capacity to eventually take over the solutions and interventions implemented, and the results achieved. The project, in collaboration with governments, is providing technical advice to develop and roll out a comprehensive strategy for child labour elimination at the country level - including immediate and long-term actions - to enhance based on strong international norms. These include its collaboration with Employers’ organizations to play a key role in building social dialogue as a strategy of strengthening coordination and convergence within inter-agency structures as well as Workers’ organizations to promote freedom of association among community associations and cooperatives that will be organized and supported at the local level. The expected end results of the intervention include: 1) Innovative solutions generated and tested from learning; 2) Enforcement of policies and implementation of plans on child labour are more effective; 3) Inter-agency collaboration mechanisms on child labour are functional and active and 4) Communities and local stakeholders are empowered in addressing child labour.

Project symbol

RAS/24/01/JPN

Admin unit

CO-Kathmandu
DWT/CO-New Delhi

Start date

18/03/2024

End date

31/12/2025

Total allocation

1721389

Total expenditure

Status

Active

1265696

Development Partners

Japan, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

Country/Countries

Nepal
India

Outcomes

Outcome 1: Strong, modernized normative action for social justice