Project to Address Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Improve Working Conditions in Select Supply Chains in Brazil and Other Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Starting in Brazil, the project will enlist government, employers, and workers’ organizations in sector-specific pacts (“pactos”) to address the challenges of child labor and forced labor and to improve working conditions in supply chains. The project will work to enhance collaboration among the pactos members, build their capacity, and enhance engagement with local worker- and community-serving organizations and individuals, bringing them into dialogue and decision-making processes and increasing worker voice throughout select supply chains. Once activities begin in Brazil, the project will then explore expanding to additional countries in Latin America and the Caribbean upon approval.
The Problem
In Brazil and around the region, informal employment, low wages, and unacceptable labor practices, such as child labor and forced labor, remain prevalent. Additionally, occupational safety and health (OSH) deficits continue to expose workers to work-related injuries and diseases. These challenges represent significant risk for the private sector in Brazil and its buyers, exporters, and consumers abroad.
Stakeholders have noted to address these challenges, they need spaces that promote social dialogue and enhance collaboration between public and private sectors to combat child labor and forced labor and improve working conditions within and throughout selected supply chains.
Our Strategy
The project will, within select supply chains, create and facilitate the spaces currently lacking for government, employers, and workers to come to the same table, agree upon sector-specific solutions to the challenges, and work collaboratively and holistically up and down their supply chains to address child labor and forced labor and to improve working conditions. Beginning in Brazil, the project will, in select supply chains:
- Enhance collaboration among members of tripartite pacts to combat child labor and forced labor and improve working conditions
- Strengthen labor stakeholders’ capacity to combat child labor and forced labor and improve working conditions
- Enhance local engagement and institutional capacity to mitigate the risks of forced labor and child labor and to promote OSH
- Grantee:
- International Labor Organization (ILO)
- Contact Information:
- (202) 693-4843 / Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT)
- Tags:
- Child Labor
- Agriculture
- Capacity Building
- Forced Labor
- Supply Chains
