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 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 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 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 Case Study | Promoting Education to Prevent Child Labour Among Adolescent Girls in Lebanon

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This case study describes how tailored education and psychosocial support for at-risk Syrian and Lebanese adolescent girls has helped to prevent child labour.
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Child Labour Case Study | Supporting Street-Based Children Through Mobile Service Units in Egypt

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This case study describes how mobile service units were e ective in reaching, identifying and supporting children who were living and working on the streets in Egypt. It also describes the main challenges and successes of the pilot programme.
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Child Labour Case Study | Regional Child Labour Strategy for the Syria Crisis

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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.
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Child Labour Case Study | The Nature, Extent and Patterns of Child Labour: A Comparison Between a Rapid Onset Emergency and a Protracted Crisis

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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...
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Child Labour Case Study | Integrated Child Protection, WASH and Cash-for-Work to Address Child Labour Among Adolescents in Syria

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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.
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Child Labour Case Study | Community-based care and mentoring for adolescent girls in domestic labour in Burkina Faso

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This case study describes an innovative approach to care and mentoring support for adolescent girls in domestic labour in Burkina Faso.
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Child Labour Case Study | Addressing Child Labour at Distribution Sites in Gaza

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This case study describes how UNRWA addressed child labour issues at distribution centres in Gaza through an integrated education, economic-strengthening and protection project.
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Child Labour Case Study | Integrating Child Labour into Humanitarian Needs Assessments

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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.
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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