Child Labour in Emergencies: Introducing the New Interagency Toolkit
The Toolkit, produced by the Child Labour Task Force, co-chaired by Plan International and the ILO, was launched in November 2016 during the Annual Meeting of the Alliance in Geneva.
Since the launch of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Emergencies in 2012, the Child Labour Task Force of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (formerly the global Child Protection Working Group) has promoted the use of the standards and provided technical support to organisations and humanitarian responses using them.
The Child Labour Task Force, co-chaired by Plan International and ILO in the meanwhile continued its efforts to give child protection and humanitarian practitioners a user friendly tool to implement child labour programmes in line with those standards. This culminated in the production of the Child Labour in Emergencies: Introducing the New Interagency Toolkit, which was launched in November 2016 during the Annual Meeting of the Alliance in Geneva.
During 2017 this toolkit is being shared and used in order to gather feedback on it’s content, format, and usability, to ensure it meets the needs of humanitarian child protection practitioners in the field and others who wish to design and implement responses to child labour in humanitarian contexts.
The primary purpose of this guidance is to support child protection programme managers and advisors to:
Set priorities, design strategies and implement activities to address and prioritize child labour interventions as a life-saving activity;
Coordinate with humanitarian, government and development actors across sectors to address child labour in emergencies as part of a systems strengthening approach to reach the most vulnerable children;
Strengthen situational analysis to improve the understanding of the present and future risks if there is no intervention;
Ensure no harm is done during emergency responses: Set priorities, design strategies and implement activities to do no harm and prevent child labour and its worst forms worsening.