Child Labour TF

Led By: Plan International

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.

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.

Key Tools

Inter-Agency Toolkit | Child Labour Case Studies

Cover

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

Inter-Agency Toolkit | Child Labour Tools

Cover

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

 Cover

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

Resources

Child Labour Case Study | Guidance on hazardous child labour in agricultural production in Niger

Cover
This case study describes how agricultural actors in Niger collaborated to address hazardous child labour in agriculture.

Child Labour Case Study | Multi-Sectoral Services for Street and Working Children in Lebanon

Cover
This case study describes (i) a comprehensive approach to service provision for children living and working on the streets in Lebanon and (ii) the main lessons learned and effective approaches of the programme.

Child Labour Case Study | Supporting Children in Child Labour Through Child-Friendly Spaces in Myanmar

Cover
This case study describes how child-friendly spaces provided holistic (prevention) activities and psychosocial support for children in child labour in Rakhine State, Myanmar.

Child Labour Case Study | Measuring Child Labour Through Household Surveys in Lebanon

Cover
This case study describes how measuring child labour has been integrated into national household surveys in Lebanon. It describes both common and speci c challenges to each survey, as well as key lessons learned.

Child Labour Case Study | Child Labour Guidance and Tools for Labour Inspectors in Jordan

Cover
This case study describes how child labour guidance and tools improved child labour law enforcement in Jordan.

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

 Cover
This case study describes how tailored education and psychosocial support for at-risk Syrian and Lebanese adolescent girls has helped to prevent child labour.

Child Labour Case Study | Supporting Street-Based Children Through Mobile Service Units in Egypt

Cover
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.

Child Labour Case Study | Regional Child Labour Strategy for the Syria Crisis

Cover
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.

Media

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

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

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

Webinars

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

Poster
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...

Webinar | COVID-19 and Child Labour

Poster
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...

Child Labour Task Force Leads

Ilenia de Marino, Plan International