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 Case Study | Integrated Child Protection, WASH and Cash-for-Work to Address Child Labour Among Adolescents in Syria
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.
Child Labour Case Study | Community-based care and mentoring for adolescent girls in domestic labour in Burkina Faso
This case study describes an innovative approach to care and mentoring support for adolescent girls in domestic labour in Burkina Faso.
Child Labour Case Study | Addressing Child Labour at Distribution Sites in Gaza
This case study describes how UNRWA addressed child labour issues at distribution centres in Gaza through an integrated education, economic-strengthening and protection project.
Child Labour Case Study | Integrating Child Labour into Humanitarian Needs Assessments
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.
Child Labour Case Study | Centre-Based Services and Cash Assistance to Address Child Labour in Turkey
This case study describes a new approach to centre-based services and cash assistance to address child labour in Turkey.
Child Labour Case Study | Conditional Cash Programming to Address Child Labour and Promote Education in Turkey
This case study describes how conditional cash assistance was used to promote education as an alternative for child labour among Syrian refugee children and vulnerable Turkish children in Şanlıurfa province in Turkey.
Child Labour Case Study | Mobile Child-Friendly Spaces for Working Children and Home-Bound Girls in Jordan
This case study describes how mobile child-friendly spaces supported children in child labour and home-bound girls in vulnerable communities in Jordan.
Child Labour Case Study | Measuring Child Labour in Agriculture: Comparing Approaches to In-Depth Assessment
This case study compares two approaches to in-depth child labour assessment in Lebanon and describes the main lessons learned.
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...
