Dirigé par: Plan International et OIT
Notre mission
Assurer une coordination et une collaboration pratiques entre les intervenants humanitaires et les acteurs du développement au niveau mondial afin de renforcer la qualité et la coordination des actions de préparation, de prévention et de réaction au travail des enfants dans les situations d'urgence au niveau national.
Le groupe de travail offre une plate-forme pour identifier et tendre à relever les défis communs dans la programmation du travail des enfants dans les situations d'urgence, en offrant une voix technique collective sur les questions du travail des enfants dans les situations d'urgence pour d'autres aspects essentiels tels que l'établissement de normes humanitaires, la collaboration intersectorielle, et le plaidoyer mondial ainsi que le travail politique lié au travail des enfants.
Principales priorités du groupe spécialisé "Travail des enfants"
Outils techniques, Normes et Conseils:
- La boîte à outils inter-agences sur le travail des enfants dans l'action humanitaire est disponible et diffusée aux niveaux local, national, régional et mondial.
- Les acteurs humanitaires disposent de connaissances et de compétences accrues pour prévenir et lutter contre (les pires formes de) travail des enfants dans les situations d'urgence.
- Le travail des enfants dans les situations humanitaires est intégré/reflété dans les agendas des plateformes mondiales, régionales et locales pertinentes, y compris, mais sans s'y limiter, l'Alliance 8.7 et d'autres groupes spécialisés dans le cadre de l'Alliance pour la protection de l'enfance dans l'action humanitaire.
Task Force Member Organisations
Resources
Child Labour Tool | Measuring Child Labour in Humanitarian Settings
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.
Child Labour Tool | Psychosocial Impacts of Child Labour
Child labour can seriously affect children’s social and emotional development and wellbeing. Different aspects of children’s work can cause harm to their psychosocial wellbeing. The impact of psychosocial hazards can cause significant stress, and if they are not mitigated, children can develop mental health conditions that require specialised support. Children in the worst forms of child labour...
Child Labour Tool | Child Labour Risk Matrix
A risk matrix is a case management tool that caseworkers and their supervisors can use during the assessment of an individual child in or at risk of child labour. The risk matrix can help determine the level of risk a child faces and subsequently help prioritise actions to take.
Child Labour Tool | Supporting At-Risk Children and Empowering Girls
This tool provides additional guidance on promoting inclusive humanitarian action with and for working children and adolescents who are in or at risk of child labour/WFCL, with specific attention to girls.
Child Labour Tool | Preventing Child Labour Risk Factors Related to Humanitarian Action
SAMPLE RISK ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS: Do vulnerable groups targeted by the intervention include working children and their families? Do children already work in the areas where the intervention hopes to have an effect, e.g. geographical, trade, thematic or subject areas? Are children who are under the minimum working age currently working? Are children who are over the minimum working age currently...
Child Labour Tool | Safety Planning
Safety planning is part of the case management process and is a tool for both the child and the case worker to keep the child safe from harm. During the initial assessment of the child’s situation, the case worker will have determined if the child is safe or not. If during the assessment it is determined that the child is not safe, the case worker should develop a safety plan with the child. For a...
Child Labour Tool | Child Labour Key Messages
The following key messages can be used and adapted to a variety of humanitarian contexts. Where it is safe and possible to do so, consult with children in child labour as well as with families and communities during the development of key messages for differ- ent target groups.
Child Labour Tools | Child Labour Information Sources
This tool contians several child labour data sources for you to explore.
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...
