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Asia Regional Child Labour Programme - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

3118

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3118

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Child labour

category:

Child labour, forced labour, human trafficking and slavery

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comments:

Development partners, CSOs, researchers and ILO constituents

challenges:

The fact that gender was not included in the original design of the intervention has led to unaddressed issues, such as the measurement of child labour disaggregated by gender, as well as the causes that explain this disaggregation and the consequences of child labour in contexts such as domestic work as a consequence of child marriage.

success:

A study was carried out on domestic work in Pakistan and shed light on the prevalence of female child labour in this sector. A key partnership established with the Pakistan Girl Guides Association (PGGA) will sustain related advocacy work.

context:

Gender was not included as a variable in the project’s initial formulation. It did not cover gender mainstreaming or gender inclusion, or include gender indicators. This did not result from a lack of gender sensitivity on the part of project designers, but rather available data informing that child labour was mainly affecting boys in the target countries. This data was mainly collected in key economic sectors, where female participation rates remain low, and domestic work, traditionally developed by women in almost all contexts, was not taken into account. In the context of the ARC programme, the ILO commissioned a study in Pakistan: Child Labour in domestic work in Pakistan: A scoping study`.

description:

The focus of CL measures on hazardous jobs and key economic sectors may have hidden the existence of female child labourers in the domestic work sector. This could be taken into account in gender-balanced project design. Pakistan carried out a qualitative study on child labour in domestic work commissioned by the ILO for the ARC project. The study offered pertinent insights into the current landscape of child labour in domestic work in Pakistan and determined that one in every four households in the country employs a child in domestic work, predominantly girls, aged 10 to 14 years. The project team has therefore found that gender is being taken into consideration in the formulation of activities, in capacity building work, in the establishment of child labour protection committees and the production of data. Moreover, it has been explained that there is a growing interest in understanding the economic exploitation of girls behind early marriage and within the family household.

administrative_issues:

Lack of personnel specialized in gender approaches at the country level, who would facilitate the implementation of the project by taking into account the gender perspective in all phases. Due to the lack of initial planning of this approach, and a lack of homogenization of data, studies and results lower levels of child labour in girls may have been detected.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/249163

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location:

country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Asia Regional Child Labour Programme - Midterm evaluation