U.S.

DEPARTMENT OF
LABOR
Bureau of International
Labor Affairs
International Child
Labor Program
FY 2006 Child Labor Education Initiative
Bidders’ Meeting

April 21,
2006
International Child Labor
Program Overview
ICLP combats the
worst forms of child
labor by:
1. Researching and reporting
information to inform U.S.
foreign policy, trade policy,
and development projects

2. Raising awareness among

the U.S. public to increase
their understanding of the
issues related to child labor
3. Supporting technical
and efforts to combat the
assistance
problem projects
worldwide
 Technical Assistance
USDOL funded child labor technical cooperation
projects (1995-2005)
MIDDLE
EAST/ ASIA/PACIFIC
EUROPE/
EURASIA $118 million;
$46.5
NORTH 38 projects;
million;
AFRICA
12 countries
15
projects;
13
LATIN AMERICA/ SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA GLOBAL
countries
CARIBBEAN
$109 million; $133 million; $74
47 projects; 43 projects; million;
18 countries 32 countries 36
projects
Technical Assistance

Projects are funded

through the:
45 IPEC
INTERNATION 40
$38
AL Million
35
PROGRAM
30
TO
25
ELIMINAT IPEC
20
E EI
CHILD LABOR 15
EDUCATION
(IPEC)
INITIATIVE 10
(EI) 5
0
1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005
Technical Assistance
International Program to Eliminate Child Labor
(IPEC)
IPEC’s Mission:

To promote
the political
will and
commitmen
t of
individual
government
The United States is the leading
s to
donor to IPEC. Since FY 1995,
eliminate USDOL has provided
child labor, approximately $300 million to
in support over 125 IPEC projects
cooperation in nearly 70 countries, as well
Technical Assistance
International Program to Eliminate Child Labor
(IPEC)
USDOL funded IPEC programs are characterized by
their focus or structure. They include:
IPEC uses a multi-strategy
Timebound approach to combat exploitive
Programs child labor, including:

Country Rehabilitative services and meaningful

Programs alternatives to child labor – including
formal/non-formal education, vocational
Sector training, health care and nutritional
Programs services, counseling for children and
income-generating/skills training
Data
activities for parents
collection
and Research Workplace and community based
monitoring systems
International
Awareness Capacity building of national and local
Raising institutions and organizations
Technical Assistance
Education Initiative (EI)

EI’s Mission:

EI seeks to
improve
access and
quality of
basic
education
for child
laborers or
Most EI projects are
children at competitively bid. Since the EI
risk of began in 2001, USDOL has
engaging in provided approximately $154
exploitive million to support 37 projects
Technical Assistance
Education Initiative (EI)

EI’s four objectives:

Awareness raising
and mobilization
Stronger education
systems
National policy
development
Sustainability
Wherever possible, EI projects complement and support
ongoing efforts funded by USDOL.
Technical Assistance

Out of
school

In
school
Technical Assistance

Children
at the
margins,
are
among
the most
difficult
yet
critical
target
groups
to
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
LABOR
Bureau of International
Labor Affairs
International Child
Labor Program
FY 2006 Child Labor Education Initiative
Bidders’ Meeting

April 21,
2006
USDOL’s Performance,
Strategic, and Outcome
Goals
ICLP Performance
Measures
The President’s
Management Agenda,
2002
Performance-based budgeting
would mean that money would be
allocated on the basis of what is
actually being accomplished;
Identify mismanaged, wasteful or
duplicative government programs
with an eye to cutting their
funding, redesigning them, or
eliminating them;
Rigorous data or evaluations
What is GPRA and why is
it important?
In 1993, United States Congress passed the
Government Performance Results Act (GPRA) to
establish strategic planning and performance
measurement in the federal government to ensure that
tax payers’ dollars were being used efficiently and
effectively for the public good.

The act requires federal agencies to develop and submit

strategic and annual performance plans that include
performance goals and indicators.

Each year all federal government agencies receiving

appropriated funds are required to submit to Congress a
performance and accountability report.

Congress uses these reports to make informed

assessments surrounding program effectiveness for
future funding decisions.
USDOL’s Strategic & Performance
Goals #3:
Foster Quality Workplaces that are Safe,
Healthy, and Fair

Strategic Goal #3
Foster Quality Workplaces that are Safe, Healthy, and Fair
• Outcome Goal 3.3
 Reduce the exploitation of child labor, protect the
basic rights of workers, and strengthen labor
markets internationally

Outcome Goal 3.3a

Contribute to the international elimination of
child labor

USDOL-ICLP measures Outcome Goal 3.3a through selected

indicators from data collected by its technical assistance
projects that have direct action components.
ILAB’s GPRA Indicators
for Outcome Goal 3.3a
• Number of children prevented or
withdrawn from exploitive child labor
provided education and/or training
opportunities as a result of DOL-funded
child labor elimination projects.

• Number of countries with increased

capacity to address child labor as a
result of DOL-funded child labor
elimination projects.
What is ILAB’s Definition of
“Withdrawn”?
Children withdrawn from exploitive
work:
This refers to those children that were
found to be working in exploitative
child labor and no longer work under
such conditions as a result of a project
intervention. This category includes:
children that have been completely withdrawn
from work, such as those involved in forms (a) –
(c) of ILO Convention 182, and
children that were involved in hazardous work
(part (d) of C.182) or work that impedes a child’s
education (C. 138) but are no longer working
under exploitative conditions because they are
now working under improved working conditions
What is ILAB’s Definition of
“Prevented”?

Children prevented from exploitive work:

This refers to children that are either siblings of (ex-) working

children or those children not yet working but considered to
be at high-risk[1] of engaging in exploitive work (see
definition 1.3 below). In order to be considered as
“prevented” these children must benefit (or have benefited)
from educational or training opportunities/services, as defined
below (see Section 3.1), provided by the project.

[1] A “high risk” situation refers to a set of conditions or

circumstances (family environment or situation, vicinity of
economic activities prone to employ children, etc.) under
which the child lives or to which it is exposed. Usually a clear
definition of “high-risk” is provided in the project document or
can be defined as part of baseline data collection.
Defining “Exploitive”
Child Labor
Conditional Worst
Forms of Child Labor Unconditional Worst
(5-14): Forms of Child Labor
(5-17):
Children must be withdrawn
or prevented depending on Children must be completely
minimum age legislation and withdrawn from work, with no
workplace hazards. In cases exception.
where children are permitted
to work, tasks must be non-
hazardous.

Conditional Worst
Non- hazardous work Forms of Child Labor
that may interfere with (15-17):
a child’s schooling (5-
14): Children must be prevented
from working in hazardous
Children must be prevented conditions.
from workplace barrier that
interfere with schooling.

Source: International Labour Office (2002). A Future Without Child Labour: Global Report
under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.
Geneva, Switzerland
How does ILAB define
“increased capacity”?

Increased capacity in a country will be

measured by one or more of the
following:
b) The adaptation of the legal framework
to the international standards
c) The formulation of specific policies and
programs at the national, regional, or
sectoral level within a country dealing
with the worst forms of child labor
(WFCL)
d) The inclusion of child labor concerns in
relevant development, social and anti-
poverty policies and programs
Thank You