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
Child Labour Learning Package, Turkish
Çocuk İşçiliği Öğrenme Paketi, Kurumlar Arası Araç Kiti'nin yaygınlaştırılmasını tamamlamak ve desteklemek amacıyla geliştirilmiştir: İnsani Yardım Faaliyetlerinde Çocuk İşçiliğinin Önlenmesi ve Müdahale Edilmesi. Araç Kiti, Plan International ve Uluslararası Çalışma Örgütü (ILO) tarafından ortaklaşa yönetilen İnsani Yardım Faaliyetlerinde Çocuk Koruma İttifakı bünyesindeki küresel Çocuk İşçiliği...
Background Paper | Child Labour and Education in Humanitarian Settings
In humanitarian situations, the risks of children being out of school and engaging in child labour are both significantly elevated, particularly for displaced, refugee, and migrant children. Hence, while education is critical for the successful prevention of and response to child labour in humanitarian crisis settings, the potentially negative effect of child labour on education participation must...
Child Labour Learning Package
This Learning Package is also available in, French, Turkish, and Arabic. Click the links to find these translations! The Child Labour Learning Package has being been developed to complement and support the roll-out of The Inter-Agency Toolkit: Preventing and Responding to Child Labour in Humanitarian Action. The Toolkit was being developed by the global Child Labour Task Force, under the Alliance...
Background Paper | Reducing Child Labour in Agriculture in Humanitarian Contexts
In 2020, 155 million people in 55 countries/regions were in crisis or worse – an increase of about 20 million people from 2019. In addition, children around the world are negatively affected by worsening education opportunities and the socioeconomic impacts of measures to stop the transmission of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The impacts on agriculture and food systems of these often...
Child Labour Case Study | Comprehensive centre-based prevention and response to child labour in agriculture in Lebanon
This case study describes a pilot project to provide comprehensive services to children in agricultural child labour and their families in the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon.
Summary | Inter-Agency Toolkit: Preventing and Responding to Child Labour in Humanitarian Action
The Inter-Agency Toolkit: Preventing and Responding to Child Labour in Humanitarian Action offers a strong global commitment to addressing child labour in humanitarian action. It was developed by the global Child Labour Task Force, under the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, which is co-led by Plan International and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The toolkit is an...
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...
