child labour prevention in agriculture
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DECENT RURAL EMPLOYMENT TEAM (DRET)
Child labour prevention in agriculture
Ms. Norah Mwamadi ([email protected])
DECENT RURAL EMPLOYMENT TEAM (DRET)
Session Outline
Clarifying concept of child labour
Key strategies and structures on CL
Addressing child labour in agricultural and rural development programmes
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The vicious cycle of poverty and child labour
Poverty in rural areas
Children supplementing/
substituting adults
Child labour
Low school attendance and
health of children Children,
adults trapped in unskilled
labour
Low adult wages and weak bargaining capacity
Reduced capacity of
communities to innovate,
respond to shocks
Low productivity of
agriculture and rural
economies
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Child labour and health
Hazardous Child Labour
Decreased Health
Less Productive Adult Worker
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What does low education mean for agriculture?
Less likely / able to: – Access information
– Effectively adopt technologies
– Best allocate resources
– Adapt/mitigate climate change
Less income possibilities
Less human resource capacity
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Integrating child labour in agricultural and rural development programmes
Guiding questions...
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Problem and stakeholder analysis
• Does child labour exist in the area or value-chain in which the programme is operating? (in which activities? boys and girls? small or large-scale production?)
• What sources of information are already available?
• Is there a national policy or action plan on CL?
• Who should be consulted?
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Identification of desired impact and target beneficiaries
• How does child labour relate to the principal goals of the programme?
• Do you want to ensure that programme recipients do not make use of child labour or decrease child labour in the value chain?
• Can households that make use of child labour be explicitly targeted (for instance to decrease their dependence on child labour)?
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• How can dependency on child labour be reduced?
E.g. promoting a labour saving technology targeting a common child’s task, improving household income combined with awareness raising, wells added to irrigation projects
• Can a condition be used with recipients of credit or inputs that they respect the law and do not use child labour in production?
Results and strategy analysis
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Resource allocation and institutional changes
• What resources need to be allocated to measure the impact of the programme on child labour?
• What resources need to be allocated to implement the activities planned to reduce child labour?
• Which institutions need to be involved? What coordination mechanisms already exist?
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Setting up the monitoring & evaluation system
• What indicators can be used to measure the programme’s impact on child labour?
E.g. time use, school attendance
• What (regular) data sources already exist? What additional data might be needed?
E.g. labour survey, census, targeted study
DECENT RURAL EMPLOYMENT TEAM (DRET)
What can each of us do?