Project Resource Documents Search

A public policy plan regarding the prevention and eradication of child labor and the protection of adolescent workers.  The document, in its structure, is presented in five chapters. The first refers to the background of the construction of public policy around child labor in Colombia. The second, performs a situational analysis at a descriptive level, to understand the phenomenon and its impact on the comprehensive development of children and adolescents, as well as the strengths and efforts of state action to identify its scope, gaps , characteristics and particularities that affect this population. On the other hand, the statistical view of the subject, challenges and challenges that Colombia has in the face of child labor and the social debt with adolescents is presented. The third chapter describes the policy framework, which includes both the legal platform to address the issue, as well as the conceptual framework, which exposes the definitions, characteristics, and relationships with child labor, under the guiding framework of approaches. The fourth refers to the technical references to understand the rights of children and adolescents, within the framework of comprehensive protection. Finally, the fifth chapter presents the management framework of the policy, in which its objective and guiding axes are defined, and in them the management that must be carried out by the agents of the National Family Welfare System - SNBF, at the national, departmental, district and municipal to make the guarantee and effective enjoyment of the rights of children and adolescents and the strengthening of the family a reality, within the framework of comprehensive protection.

A technical bulletin reporting on the prevalence and patterns in child labor in Colombia between October and December 2016.

This document provides the methodological guidelines for a survey of measurement of forced labor risks for adequate monitoring of the actions that have been carried out for the BRIDGE project. This stems from a need to generate quantitative information on the levels of knowledge of the concept and situation of forced labor in Peru and levels of risk and working conditions of vulnerable populations subject to forced labor.

This report constitutes an exploratory analysis of two previously selected border areas of Peru: between Peru and Ecuador through Tumbes and the triple border between Peru and Brazil and Colombia. These borders show a growing presence of forced labor and human trafficking, and this report offers a proposal of criteria that allow decisions to be made to carry out future in-depth investigations of these borders by regional governments and public & private institutions.

This is a research study that seeks to document the form of recruitment and economic logic of human trafficking and forced labor, as well as to establish analytical connections with the importance of illegal economies and organized crime in the triple border area of Peru, Brazil, and Colombia. The study seeks to collect data that facilitates the development of intervention strategies and implementation of national public policies for prevention, detection and prosecution.

Endline study for the ARCH project, which assesses measurable changes that occurred throughout the lifespan of the project and compares the findings with those from the baseline survey. The endline survey provides improved understanding of the outcomes of project activities, changes that transpired in the prevalence of child labor in project areas, and assessed possible impacts of the project interventions on the project’s direct beneficiaries.

A report presenting the results of a baseline and prevalence survey on the topic of child labor administered to caregivers and children in Chadiza, Chipata, Katete, Lundazi, and Petauke in Eastern province of Zambia. The first part of the report covers the background information of the baseline study followed by detailed description of the approach used to collect, analyze and present the baseline findings. The report highlights some of the study limitations before presenting the baseline results. This is then followed by the conclusions and recommendations.

Diagnosis of Child Labor Coal and Gold Mining Developments and Challenges in Public Policy: This study is an approach to the development of public policies regarding the violations and inequalities that are present in child labor in mining from the perspective of rights and human development, as well as an analysis of the conditions in which these communities find themselves and the consequences reflected in the risk of child labor.

Legalization of Small Mining: The objective of this booklet is to explain to you what mining formalization is, and to give you the necessary tools to understand the obligations that mining title holders who work under a mining title must comply with.

The Alliance for Responsible Mining, within the framework of the Somos Tesoro project, launches its campaign "For my family and for me, I take care of myself!", a message of self-care that reminds miners, their families and their communities of the precautionary measures they must take to avoid the risks existing in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining.