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This document identifies priority research areas essential to supporting the elimination of child labor and forced labor in Uganda. This agenda was created as a result of mapping existing research and using interviews and consultations to identify research priorities. The agenda is organized into five thematic areas: risk factors for vulnerability; assessment of what works; technology and artificial intelligence; monitoring and assessment; and economic, environmental, and social costs.

This document identifies priority research areas essential to supporting the elimination of child labor and forced labor in Uganda. This agenda was created as a result of mapping existing research and using interviews and consultations to identify research priorities. The agenda is organized into five thematic areas: risk factors for vulnerability; assessment of what works; technology and artificial intelligence; monitoring and assessment; and economic, environmental, and social costs.

This report presents the findings from a series of interviews with returned Bangladeshi migrant workers with recent experience working in the garment sector of Mauritius in an effort to understand the nature and characteristics of forced labor vulnerability in the interview population. Interviewers analyzed respondents' experiences according to a set of ILO forced labor indicators. Findings include a prevalence of reported forced labor, exploitative fees charged by labor agents as a condition of employment, deceptive recruiting and remuneration processes, and workers having received inadequate medical care.

This report aims to assess the prevalence of child labor in Nigeria and analyze the interaction between child labor, schooling and children’s well-being. Using data collected by the National Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with the ILO and the Federal Ministry of Labor and Employment of Nigeria in the Nigeria Child Labour and Forced Labour Survey (NCFLS) 2022, this report also examines the patterns of child employment, the conditions of this employment and the key household characteristics that may contribute to child employment and child labor.

This questionnaire for child labor modular surveys is meant to measure child labor and is designed to have a limited number of questions so that it can be incorporated as a module in surveys on more general topics. It is structured in five parts including demographic and education characteristics, employment work by children, unpaid trainee work by children and own-use production of goods, hazardous work by children, and unpaid household services (household chores).

This resource was created through a partnership with the “From Research to Action: Using Knowledge to Accelerate Progress in the Elimination of Child Labour and Forced Labour” project.

This survey is one of three modules in the Child Labour Stand-Alone Surveys Compendium, a specialized tool to conduct focused surveys dedicated to the issue of child labor in order to develop targeted interventions to address and prevent child labor. This module, the household-based model questionnaire, is designed to collect comprehensive data on the extent, nature, and root causes of child labor within a specific country or region.

This resource was created through a partnership with the “From Research to Action: Using Knowledge to Accelerate Progress in the Elimination of Child Labour and Forced Labour” project.

This survey is one of three modules in the Child Labour Stand-Alone Surveys Compendium, a specialized tool to conduct focused surveys dedicated to the issue of child labor in order to develop targeted interventions to address and prevent child labor. This module, the interviewer's manual, is designed to enable interviewers and team leaders to perform their data collection functions for the model questionnaire under optimal conditions.

This resource was created through a partnership with the “From Research to Action: Using Knowledge to Accelerate Progress in the Elimination of Child Labour and Forced Labour” project.

This survey is one of three modules in the Child Labour Stand-Alone Surveys Compendium, a specialized tool to conduct focused surveys dedicated to the issue of child labor in order to develop targeted interventions to address and prevent child labor. This module, the national adaptation guide for Pen-and-Paper Interviews (PAPI), provides more detailed information on response options, the purpose of each question and issues to consider in the adaptation of each question to the national context. It also provide additional information on cognitive testing and counting rules associated with the key child labor indicators.

This resource was created through a partnership with the “From Research to Action: Using Knowledge to Accelerate Progress in the Elimination of Child Labour and Forced Labour” project.

Website for a conference to advance discussions among researchers, policy actors, social partners, and practitioners around the world and to strengthen partnerships and explore the logistics of refining evidence on effective solutions regarding child labor, human trafficking, and forced labor.

A set of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that were developed to define and clarify the roles and operating procedures of institutions for the prevention, identification, data collection, referral, treatment, and reporting of children involved in hazardous child labor. These SOPs aim to strengthen inter-institutional and multidisciplinary cooperation to protect the rights of the child and to protect children from hazardous child labor.