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
Task Force Member Organisations
Resources
Child Labour Tool | Child Labour Risk and Protective Factors
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.
Child Labour Tool | Body Safety
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.
Child Labour Tool | Age Verification for Working Children
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.
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...
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...
