Child Labor Participant Monitoring Toolkit
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The Problem
Child labor elimination projects funded by USDOL/ILAB are required to develop and implement a Direct Participant Monitoring System (DPMS). The purpose of the DPMS is to regularly monitor: 1) the provision of education and livelihood services to direct participant, and 2) participant children’s education and work status. This data informs the degree to which projects are achieving their service delivery targets and desired higher-level outcomes (e.g., a decrease in child labor rates among participant children).
While OCFT requires all projects to develop and implement a DPMS, there is a need for further written guidance on how to develop such a system and ensure that it is both effective and minimally burdensome to project implementers and partners. In the absence of such additional guidance, projects build their DPMS without fully benefiting from documented lessons learned and good practices from other projects.
Furthermore, while OCFT prefers to provide flexibility to project implementers in terms of how they develop and implement their DPMS, OCFT would like to ensure that projects’ DPMS follow some standard guidelines and parameters. In addition, for grantees that do not have a pre-existing database or system for building their DPMS and prefer not to build their own system, OCFT currently does not have a readily adaptable tool that they could use.
Our Strategy
This project will develop a child labor participant monitoring toolkit. The toolkit will guide USDOL-funded child labor elimination projects in their design and implementation of a DPMS.
The toolkit will include three major components: 1) a written guideline to be used by child labor elimination projects in their development and implementation of a DPMS, 2) a prototype DPMS software/database tool for USDOL/ILAB to provide for grantees’ use in developing and implementing their project DPMS, and 3) a mobile application to facilitate collection of monitoring data in the field. Building on the experience of developing the DPMS on child labor elimination projects, IMPAQ will also introduce a broader range of labor-related indicators such as forced labor, human trafficking, and other working conditions.
Summary of Activities:
- Conduct an assessment of current/past grantees’
- DPMS experiences in order to compile lessons learned and good practices to guide the development of the toolkit and prototype.
- Develop the toolkit, including a set of written DPMS guidelines, good practices, and resources for OCFT grantees (to be published online).
- Develop a web-based DPMS prototype software/database tool and a mobile data collection application.
- Train OCFT and grantees on the toolkit and prototype.
- Apply the lessons learned from the DPMS prototype to track additional labor metrics related to child labor.
- Grantee:
- IMPAQ International, LLC.
- Contact Information:
- (202) 693-4843 / Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT)
- Tags:
- Child Labor
