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Supporting the National Plan of Action for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour in Kenya - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

1003

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1003

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Government - capacity building

category:

Constituents

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comments:

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challenges:

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success:

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context:

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description:

The project rested in some important ways on the idea that government employees and in particular community members would contribute their time and resources to identify children in dangerous working situations, report them to authorities and chip in for their schooling or sustenance. This kind of safety net support is traditionally most common in rural areas, but turned out to be an assumption that weakened the sustainability of the project. While in some cases local people were in leadership roles that may have inclined or even mandated them socially, technically and financially to contribute (for instance with teachers, Chiefs, clergy, and CBO representatives), this was not always the case. Indeed, the assumption that volunteers would and will emerge in every setting to take the critical tasks forward is rather ironic given the repeated refrain in Nairobi and district offices from salaried government employees that they and their colleagues from other ministries were unable to even meet to talk about child labour issues without a financial incentive for doing so.

administrative_issues:

N/A

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/164560

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location:

country:

Kenya

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

Supporting the National Plan of Action for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour in Kenya - Final Evaluation