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The Jamaica National Youth Activity Survey (JYAS) 2016 is the product of a partnership between the Statistical Institute of Jamaica and the International Labour Organization (ILO). It is the first stand-alone survey of children’s activities conducted nationally. The main objective of the survey is to collect comprehensive information on children’s engagement in economic activities. The JYAS 2016 report provides quantitative, reliable and updated statistics on working children, child labour, and hazardous work performed by children in Jamaica. Detailed in this report is statistical information on the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of working children aged 5 to 17 years as well as related information on the households to which they belong. The report includes an analysis of fundamental child labour-related issues, such as children’s involvement in economic activity, types and characteristics of child labour and children’s working environment. It also contains findings about children’s non-economic activities, principally school attendance and engagement in household chores.

As part of the implementation of the NAP-NT, particularly with regard to the analysis of the prevalence of child labor, the Tunisian government, with the technical and financial support of the ILO, entrusted the INS with the conduct of a first survey in Tunisia on the phenomenon. The survey was conducted among households to collect information on this subject that is both important and useful for political and social purposes.

A document issued by the Nepalese government detailing the policy and funding steps it plans to take in order to address the issue of child labor. 

This document reports on the design of an employment survey in the palm oil industry in Malaysia and includes information on the sample design, questionnaire design, and agreed pilot survey and follow-up activities that lead to the implementation of this project.

Training module in the 3-R Trainer's Kit.  This module deals with household and family responsibilities, access and resources in the family. In the first unit participants will analyze the division of work and the distribution of resources among women, men, girls and boys in families. The exercises show how norms and values about gender and age influence the roles and responsibilities of everybody in the family and the extent to which different family members can access and control family resources and benefits. In the second unit, participants find out what forms of work are appropriate for children and can be considered as acceptable ‘child work’ and what forms of work harm their development and is ‘child labour.’ Participants will also realize what are main hazards for children, what are the worst forms of child labour and why these need to be abolished as a matter of priority.

Mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative ) study on the causes, mechanism and consequences of early marriage in Ethiopia, focusing on Amhara National Regional State – one of the regions with the highest rate of early marriage. Study aims: investigate the psychosocial and health effects of early marriage, and inform the developmental, policy and intervention demands of the nation with evidence-based research to mitigate the problem of early marriage and its effects.

The 2015 National Child Labour Survey (NCLS) was a nationwide survey designed to collect data on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of working children aged 5-17 years.  The 2015 NCLS was supported by the International Labour Organization (ILO) through its Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch (FUNDAMENTALS).  The 2015 NCLS was conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO) in collaboration with Ministry of Labour, Youth and Manpower Development (MoLYMD) and Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development (MoAIWD).

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 Practical Guide aims at providing practical orientations and the required guidance to prevent and eliminate child labor in domestic work as well as at protecting young domestic workers of legal working age. It also provides information on approaches and intervention models, as well as practical tools that have been developed or tested across the world to address and tackle a range of key issues concerning child domestic workers and child domestic work, offering when possible and available, examples from different regions of the world on relevant experiences, results and lessons learnt.

Training module in the 3-R Trainer's Kit.  This module deals with household and family responsibilities, access and resources in the family. In the first unit participants will analyze the division of work and the distribution of resources among women, men, girls and boys in families. The exercises show how norms and values about gender and age influence the roles and responsibilities of everybody in the family and the extent to which different family members can access and control family resources and benefits. In the second unit, participants find out what forms of work are appropriate for children and can be considered as acceptable ‘child work’ and what forms of work harm their development and is ‘child labour.’ Participants will also realize what are main hazards for children, what are the worst forms of child labour and why these need to be abolished as a matter of priority.