Child Labour TF

Led By: Plan International

Contact us at: cltf@alliancecpha.org

About the Child Labour TF
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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 knowledge 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/reflected in the agenda’s of relevant global, regional and local platforms, including but not limited to 8.7 Alliance and other Task Forces under the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.

Latest News

Join Us at the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour

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If you’re attending the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour in Marrakesh, Morocco, the Alliance invites you to connect with us in person during the Conference — through an interactive session and at the Innovation Fair. Throughout the week, the Alliance will engage with conference participants to highlight how child labour can and should be addressed as a child protection...
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About the Child Labour TF
Child Labour TF Resources

Key Tools

Inter-Agency Toolkit | Child Labour Tools

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Find ALL 19 Practical Tools in the Inter-Agency Toolkit on Preventing and Responding to Child Protection in Humanitarian Action! 

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Inter-Agency Toolkit | Child Labour Case Studies

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Find ALL 34 Case Studies in the Inter-Agency Toolkit on Preventing and Responding to Child Protection in Humanitarian Action! 

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Inter-Agency Child Labour Toolkit | Preventing and Responding to Child Labour in Humanitarian Action

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Every day, millions of children worldwide experience the consequences of violent conflicts, climate change, disasters and epidemics. In times of crisis, when people are forced to flee their homes, schools close, jobs are lost and the availability of services decreases, child labour becomes a coping mechanism for many families in distress. It deprives children of their childhood, their potential

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Resources

Child Labour Tool | Disability and Child Labour

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The linkages between disability and child labour are complex, and clear evidence on their causal relationship is still hard to come by – in particular the question of whether children with disabilities are more vulnerable to entering child labour often remains unanswered. However, analysis of other factors closely linked to disability and child labour, such as poverty and access to education, can...
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Child Labour Tool | Guidance for Child Protection Case Workers

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This is guidance for caseworkers and case managers who provide child protection case management services for children in child labour, including the worst forms of child labour. This guidance complements the key actions outlined in Child Protection Minimum Standard 18 and global case management guidelines. Part 1 looks at developing additional guidance for child labour case management, and part 2...
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Child Labour Tool | Addressing Child Labour During Infectious Disease Outbreaks

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This is guidance for practitioners who are working in contexts of infectious disease outbreaks. It outlines the child labour risks associated with infectious disease outbreaks and the recommended actions to prevent and respond to child labour. This guidance draws upon lessons learned from a variety of infectious disease outbreaks globally, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Child Labour Tool | What We Need to Know About Child Labour

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This tool – What We Need To Know (WWNK) – presents the pieces of information that we need to know about the child labour situation, in order to plan for a strategic response. It provides a framework for situation analysis, including secondary data review (SDR) and primary data collection.
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Child Labour Tool | Child Labour Risk and Protective Factors

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This overview presents common risk and protective factors in humanitarian settings. It is important to identify risk and protective factors in the specific context to better understand what factors leads to child labour.
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Child Labour Tool | Body Safety

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In addition to regular and consistent safety assessments, case workers can hold separate sessions with children and caregivers on body safety and safety planning. This can help children to communicate their boundaries and respond to unsafe situations. These sessions can help children to feel more control and confidence in responding to threats when they occur.
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Child Labour Tool | Age Verification for Working Children

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Where children may be engaged in vocational training, livelihoods or decent work programmes, humanitarian actors will need to verify the age of the child, to ensure that children are old enough to participate. Always follow existing legislation and guidelines on age verification and certification, as outlined in the national legislative framework.
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Child Labour Tool | Measuring Child Labour in Humanitarian Settings

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Child labour data can be hard to come by, especially when it comes to the worst forms of child labour. At the same time, this data is essential to inform strategic decision-making and response planning in humanitarian settings. This checklist contains key actions to improve measurement of child labour in humanitarian settings.
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Media

Child Labour Webcast | Preventing and Protecting Children from Child Labour in Humanitarian Crisis

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Child Labour Webcast | The Impact of Humanitarian Crisis and Child Labour

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Podcast | Protected! Podcast Ep 4: Impact of COVID-19 on Child Labour Programming in Myanmar

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Webinars

Global Launch | Inter-Agency Toolkit: Preventing and Responding to Child Labour in Humanitarian Action

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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 act. In 2020, Convention 182...
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Webinar | COVID-19 and Child Labour

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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...
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Child Labour Task Force Leads

Ilenia de Marino, Plan International