Led By: Plan International and ILO
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
- Humanitarian responders have enhanced knoweldge and competencies to prevent and respond to (the worst forms of) child labour in emergencies
- 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
Latest News
Preventing and Responding to Child Labour in Humanitarian Action Learn online with the Global Child Labour Task Force!
The Child Labour Task Force, in collaboration with the Global CP AoR, would like to offer a free, online learning opportunity to further explore the guidance and tools to strengthen overall understanding of preventing and responding to child labour in humanitarian action. The course will provide an introduction to child labour in humanitarian action and will allow you to reflect on how the IA...
“Ask the Alliance and Friends” Event for the 2022 World Day Against Child Labour
When: 13 June 2022, 8:00 - 9:00 BST/ 9:00 - 10:00 CEST/15:00 - 16:00 HK/ 11:00 - 12:00 EAT Where: https://changemakersforchildren.community/CPHA-community Who: Simon Hills and Silvia Oñate from the Child Labour Task Force and Hayat Osseiran, Senior Child Labour Expert MENA region What: The 2022 World Day Against Child Labour is June Sunday 12th, 2022 with the theme of Universal Social Protection...
Task Force Member Organisations
Resources
Inter-Agency Toolkit | Child Labour Tools
Find ALL 19 Practical Tools in the Inter-Agency Toolkit on Preventing and Responding to Child Protection in Humanitarian Action!
Inter-Agency Child Labour Toolkit | Preventing and Responding to Child Labour in Humanitarian Action
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...
Child Labour Tool | Children Are Not Little Adults
Many people assume that the work children do is not particularly dangerous, or that workplace dangers and hazards for adults affect children in the same way. However, children are affected more significantly by the same hazards because their bodies are still growing and they are still developing socially and emotionally, which makes them more vulnerable to workplace hazards than adults.
Child Labour Tool | Signs of Child Labour
A number of signals can indicate that children are involved in child labour or the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) such as forms of slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, or trafficking. A child can display one or multiple signs. Sometimes humanitarian actors may suspect that something is not right and use their professional skills to talk to a child and find out more information. None of the...
Child Labour Tool | Child Labour in Refugee, Internally Displaced and Migrant Settings
This tool provides an overview of risks for and key actions to protect children in refugee, internally displaced and migrant populations.
Child Labour Tool | Disability and Child Labour
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...
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...
