Child Labour resources

January 2002

  1. Child labour in the sugar plantations: A cursory assessment

    This paper is a cursory assessment of the child labour that has been operating in the sugar cane plantations. It seeks to expose a wholistic view of such reality so that we could see and understand the interrelationships that constitute it and see what could be done to eradicate it systematically and in a span of time.

  2. Combating trafficking in children and women in the Mekong, SELL: Sharing Experience & Lessons Learned: an ILO-IPEC good practice paper

    Compiles eleven SELL notes: Baseline survey analysis; including Participatory approaches; Holistic approaches; Programme coordination; Inter-agency coordination; Capacity building; Replication and mainstreaming and Legal labour migration alternatives.

  3. Micro-finance interventions: tools to combat the worst forms of child labour, including trafficking

    Provides a tool for the design and implementation of sustainable microfinance interventions, especially on rural areas.

  4. Non-formal education and rural skills training: tools to combat the worst forms of child labour, including trafficking

    Provides guidance on the design and implementation of sustainable non-formal education and rural skills training programmes.

  5. A process-based approach to combat trafficking in children and women: sharing preliminary experiences from an ILO-project in the Mekong Sub-region

    Covers ILO-project combating trafficking in children and women. Includes basic organizational information, general information about the Process Based Approach, evaluation of experiences and achievements to date, conclusions and lessons learnt.

  6. Replication meeting of good experiences to prevent trafficking in children and women in Yunnan Province of China: records of proceedings, Beijing, 31 October - 1 November 2002

    Records of the proceeding of a replication meeting of good experiences to prevent trafficking in children and women in Yunnan Province of China, 2002.

  7. Thailand: child labour in illicit drug activities: a rapid assessment

    Aims at discovering the reasons children get involved in illicit drug activities in Thailand.

  8. Viet Nam: children in prostitution in Hanoi, Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho: a rapid assessment

    Provides some limited insight into the situation of young people involved in prostitution in Viet Nam.

  9. Yunnan Province, China: situation of trafficking in children and women: a rapid assessment

    Presents an overview of the extent of trafficking in women and children and makes recommendations for action. Includes survey methodology, questionnaires and data collecting forms.

  10. Taking action against child labour: the community microfinance strategy

    Started in June 2000, this ILO-sponsored Community Microfinance Strategy worked to improve family incomes through savings so that their children could be taken out of the labour market and put back in school. The strategy helps to make saving money convenient and possible. The video was produced as part of the ILO-IPEC action programme in partnership with Punla sa Tao Foundation.