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ARISE II: Eliminating child labour in tobacco growing communities in Malawi - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2923

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2923

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Child labour

category:

Child labour, forced labour, human trafficking and slavery

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comments:

N/A

challenges:

The main challenge in this lesson was that CCLC members lacked the ability to provide schooling materials for some of the children they had identified and reintegrated back to school. Without support for scholastic materials, they were likely to fall back to child labour.

success:

This lesson was a validation of the work that ILO undertook. It portrays a feeling of ownership of the process and the project intended goal of building the capacity of stakeholders so that they can act in elimination of child Labour.

context:

CCLCs are community level structures comprising community members and community leaders, which were trained on child labour issues, including the Child Labour Monitoring System, (CLMS) and tasked with the role of monitoring and identification of children involved in child labour and those at risk of falling into child labour around their community. During the project period, the CCLC members would collect household data from using the CLMS tools, from which they would identify children in labour and those at risk. Those identified for withdrawal were withdrawn and those for prevention were prevented though reintegration back to the school. The implementing partner would them support with schooling material. This data collected though the CLMS would be forwarded to the implementing partner who would in turn hand it over to the District Child Labour Committee (DCLC) thought the District Labour Officer (DLO). After the project ended, the CCLCs continued to informally monitor and identify children in labour and risk and referring them to local schools. The lesson requires intensive awareness and a change of attitude towards child labour

description:

It does not require external support to assist children in Child Labour to get back to school. This was a realization among the members of CCLCs who played the role of monitoring and identification of children involved in child labour within their communities. After carrying out this ask in collaboration with the implementing partners, members of the CCLCs were able to internalize the process of identification, counselling and reintegration of children back to schools. This is a task they continued to undertake even after the project ended, which made them realize they could actually do it without necessarily having to send their reports to the implementing partner

administrative_issues:

This lesson ideally ought to guide future project designs which should aim at equipping the local level stakeholders with knowledge and skills they need to individually and collectively act in contributing to the elimination of child labour. Staff and resources are needed, meaning this ought to be factored into the project design

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/243027

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location:

country:

Malawi

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

ARISE II: Eliminating child labour in tobacco growing communities in Malawi - Final Evaluation