Supporting Actions to Meet the 2015 Targets to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Lusophone Countries in Africa Through Knowledge, Awareness Raising and South-South Cooperation
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The Problem
Lusophone countries around the world are working to address the worst forms of child labor. Brazil specifically has implemented successful policies and programs to address the worst forms of child labor. SharingBrazil’sknowledge and lessons learned with the African members of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) would greatly enhance Lusophonecounties’abilitiestocombatchildlabor. However, many African Lusophone countries lack the funding for this collaboration. The Lusophone project fulfills this need by providing funding to promote collaboration between Brazil and African Lusophone countries on child labor issues in order to foster the exchange of good practices and experience through South-South cooperation.
Our Strategy
Project Objectives:
- Foster the exchange of good practices and experiences in combating the worst forms of child labor by creating a platform for open discussion between Brazil and other African Lusophone countries.
- Provide technical support, advice, and assistance to African Lusophone countries to develop or refine their national action plans to combat the worst forms of child labor, or to mainstream child labor into existing policy framework.
- Conduct research and data collection and promote the exchange of materials in regard to child labor.
Summary of Activities:
- Conduct more accurate research and rapid assessments in Angola and Mozambique.
- Provide technical advice and assistance for the development or revision of national action plans to combat the worst forms of child labor, or to mainstream child labor into existing policy framework.
- With Brazil’shelp,develop institutional arrangements (such as national steering committees) or integrate child labor issues into existing institutions, and provide guidance to enhance inter-institutional coordination.
- Carry out capacity building activities for relevant stakeholders on policy development for the worst forms of child labor, using the experiences of Brazil and their Bolsa programs.
- Grantee:
- International Labor Organization (ILO)
- Implementing Partners:
- Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Principe, The Community of Portuguese Speaking Communities, The Government of Brazil: The Brazilian Sub-Commission of International Affairs of the National Commission for the Prevention of Child Labor (CONAETI); and the National Forum for the Prevention and Elimination of Child Labor (FNPETI), The Governments of Angola
- Contact Information:
- (202) 693-4843 / Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT)
- Tags:
- Child Labor
- Capacity Building
