Led By: Plan International
Contact us at: cltf@alliancecpha.org
Our Mission
To ensure practical coordination and collaboration amongst humanitarian responders and development actors at the global level to strengthen the quality and coordination of child labour preparedness, prevention and response actions in emergencies at country level.
The Task Force provides a platform to identify and seek to address common challenges in child labour in emergencies programming, providing a collective technical voice on child labour issues in emergencies for other core pieces of work such as humanitarian standard setting, inter-sectoral collaboration, and global advocacy and policy work related to child labour.
Key Priorities of the Child Labour Task Force
Technical Tools, Standards and Guidance:
- Inter-agency Child Labour in Humanitarian Action Toolkit is available and disseminated at local, national, regional and global levels
Capacity Building:
- Humanitarian responders have enhanced knoweldge and competencies to prevent and respond to (the worst forms of) child labour in emergencies
Coordination, Policy and Advocacy:
- Child labour in humanitarian settings is integrated/refleced in the agenda’s of relevant global, regional and local platforms, including but not liited to 8.7 Alliance and other Task Forces under the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
Task Force Member Organisations
Resources
Child Labour Case Study | Regional Child Labour Strategy for the Syria Crisis
This case study describes lessons learned from the inter-agency process of developing a regional child labour strategy covering Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, in response to the rising levels of child labour resulting from the war in Syria.
Child Labour Case Study | The Nature, Extent and Patterns of Child Labour: A Comparison Between a Rapid Onset Emergency and a Protracted Crisis
The nature, extent and patterns of child labour can drastically change in an emergency or crisis setting. In the Philippines, child labour increased in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, while the onset of the Syrian war in 2011 increased child labour in Lebanon. In both countries, the widespread social and economic impact of the crises led to an increase in child labour and its worst...
Child Labour Case Study | Integrated Child Protection, WASH and Cash-for-Work to Address Child Labour Among Adolescents in Syria
This case study describes how an integrated protection, WASH and case assistance project aimed to prevent and respond to child labour among adolescents in Syria.
Child Labour Case Study | Community-based care and mentoring for adolescent girls in domestic labour in Burkina Faso
This case study describes an innovative approach to care and mentoring support for adolescent girls in domestic labour in Burkina Faso.
Child Labour Case Study | Addressing Child Labour at Distribution Sites in Gaza
This case study describes how UNRWA addressed child labour issues at distribution centres in Gaza through an integrated education, economic-strengthening and protection project.
Child Labour Case Study | Integrating Child Labour into Humanitarian Needs Assessments
This case study describes (i) how child labour has been integrated into (multi-sector) humanitarian needs assessments in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq and the Philippines and (ii) the main challenges and lessons learned.
Child Labour Case Study | Centre-Based Services and Cash Assistance to Address Child Labour in Turkey
This case study describes a new approach to centre-based services and cash assistance to address child labour in Turkey.
Child Labour Case Study | Conditional Cash Programming to Address Child Labour and Promote Education in Turkey
This case study describes how conditional cash assistance was used to promote education as an alternative for child labour among Syrian refugee children and vulnerable Turkish children in Şanlıurfa province in Turkey.
Webinars
Virtual Launch | Inter-Agency Toolkit: Preventing and Responding to Child Labour in Humanitarian Action
Register via this Zoom link. Worldwide, an estimated 152 million girls and boys are in child labour, almost half of them, 73 million, work in hazardous child labour. The incidence of child labour in humanitarian crises is an imminent concern. The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to push millions more children into child labour. However, there are great opportunities for the global community to...
Webinar | COVID-19 and Child Labour
Join experts and practitioners from different organisations across the globe to discuss ‘COVID-19: Protect children from child labour, now more than ever!’, the theme of the 2020 World Day Against Child Labour. Participants will hear an update based on the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action technical note on COVID-19 and Child Labour (EN, SP, FR), evidence-based resources and...