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To discuss the broad framework of the Project and generate ideas on the
interventions required to combat child labour in Jalna.
To promote ownership of the Project among the stake holders.
Stake holders includes:
- Children and their parents
District Administration
NCLP
SSA
Key government departments
Labour
Education
Rural and Urban Development Authorities
Health
Information
NGOs and other Civil Society organizations
Employers’ organizations
Trade Unions
Media
ITI’s and Polytechnics
Academic and Research organizations
Coverage of Project :
- Ten Hazardous sectors
Hand-rolled beedi cigarettes
Brassware
Leather, rubber, and plastic footwear
Hand-blown glass bangles
Hand-made locks
Hand-broken quarried stones
Hand-spun/hand-loomed silk thread, yarn and fabric
Fireworks
Hand Dipped Matches
Hand Made Bricks
Envisaged Outcomes :
- Identified children shifted to Educational Systems.
Public Education System strengthened to ensure that younger children do
not enter the workforce
Skills of identified Adolescents improved.
Broad Base of Skills in Identified Areas.
Public Awareness raised on the issue of child labour and a situation
created where all children are in school.
Progress of identified children tracked to ensure that they have benefitted
from the project initiatives.
Identification of children at risk :
- Identify the working children through a child , parent and employer survey
- Develop profiles by sector, of child workers, their families, their workplace
and working conditions - Develop a directory of government and other agencies’ programmes in the
target areas - An organization identified by the government would have to carry out the
survey with the active involvement of the community based organizations
and key government departments - A district level survey task force to be set up under the chairpersonship of
the District Magistrate to assist the identified agency in undertaking the
survey.
- Setting up of 40 TECs to cover 2000 children in the age group of 9-13 in
the district (50 children in each TEC)
Identification of suitable agencies to run TECs
Training instructors through govt or NGO institutions
Locally adapt existing teaching material where required.
Enrolment of identified children in TECs
Each TEC to have 2 education instructors, 1 instructor for pre-vocational
education/skill training, 1 resource centre volunteer and one helper.
Each TEC to be given a provision for rent, teacher training, educational
and vocational material, resource centre equipment and contingencies
Children to be provided textbooks, notebooks, stationery etc.
Children to be provided appropriate pre vocational education
Provision of cooked mid-day meals
Provision of appropriate healthcare(health cards, health camps, Medicine
kit, periodic visits by doctor)
Payment of stipend for each child enrolled
TEC to function as a resource centre in the evening
Mainstreaming of children into formal schools within a period of 12 to18
months
Special focus on enrolment and mainstreaming of girls.
Follow up of children mainstreamed into formal school
Equipping the TEC (play, reading material etc) to function as a resource
centre for children after school hours
Provision for tuition etc., for children mainstreamed
Vocational training for adolescents (14-17) :
- Training 1000 adolescents in each district on employable and marketable
skills
Assessment of labour market to identify entry level skills for boys and girls
Strengthen and utilise the existing training facilities in the ITI s/polytechnics
to train the adolescents
Establishment of VTCs
Development or adaptation of existing material and resources for skill
training in each locality
Provision of training through attachment with ustaads/master
craftsmen/trainers etc
Focus on vocational training for girls in employable skills
Production cum training centres where appropriate and feasible
Enrolment of identified adolescents for the vocational training courses
Provision of monthly stipend to the enrolled adolescents
Trade certification to students on completion of the course
Linking the centres to job placement services or to job opportunities
Possible partners:
- NCLP Society with the active collaboration of ITIs, Polytechnics,
organizations involved in technical and vocational training would carry out
the activities.
Income generating alternatives for families:
- Organizing 500 mothers of rehabilitated child labourers to form Self Help
Groups (SHG’s) in each district
SHGs with 10 -15 mothers each
Saving of Rs 30 – Rs. 50/- per month by each mother
Matching grant to be given after six months
Training these mothers on various income-generation activities, micro
enterprise development, micro-credit, skill development, etc.,
Encouraging mothers to take up economically viable activities linked to the
school, such as mid-day meals, employment in the TECs, Resource
centres etc.
Establishing Market linkages for the products
Mentor services
Linking with government anti poverty programmes and utilisation of
resources allocated under those programmes and schemes
- NCLP Society with the active collaboration of DRDA/DUDA and other
organizations involved in self help groups and income generating activities
Strengthening public education system with special attention to
children at risk :
- Enrolling 1000 children in the age group of 5-8 in regular schools through
community supported drives
Strengthening the Public Education System to ensure maximum
enrolment and retention of children and support to the achievement of the
goals of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
- providing school development grant for technical/infrastructural support to
schools.
providing teaching and learning materials to schools.
providing child labour data to input into the DEEPs
promoting locally based financing for education
- conducting teacher training for teachers.
Providing text books to schools.
Providing a module to introduce child labour issues in teacher training
institutes
Assisting government to upgrade skills of school management in schools
receiving a large influx of child labourers
Developing a strategy for retention of children mainstreamed in schools.
Providing supplementary reading material, note books etc., to children
Supporting local innovations towards UEE and joyful learning
- Training the community on the risks of child labour and the importance of
education
Strengthening local bodies and opinion makers in the local community to
reach the affected children
Sensitization of peer groups and structured parental counselling.
Providing assistance in development of community monitoring systems to
complement the existing systems
Support activities which promote girls education
Community supported drives for enrolment of children in the 5-8
year age group.
- Provide support to community mobilisation efforts to raise awareness on
child labour and the importance of education
Develop awareness generation material on child labour.
Conducting bridge courses for children at risk.
Promoting networking between pre-schools and schools.
Implement a community-monitored health programme
Possible partners
- SSA would be the main implementing partner with the involvement of civil
society partners where necessary
ILO would enter into an agreement with the state level SSA society
Monitoring and tracking :
- Child Labour Monitoring to provide information on the situation of child
labour in targeted areas
A tracking component to track the target beneficiaries by providing them
with a unique identity
Collection of information on indicators of the project
State government has to identify a suitable technical and research agency
for the component
Social mobilisation :
- Development of materials in various media formats like audio-visual, print,
outdoor etc.
Advocacy and awareness campaigns
Organising forums for discussion and networking
Mobilising employers’ and workers’ organisations, civil society
organisations
Mobilising families and communities
Capacity building of national, state, district and local institutions:
- Periodic training to improve the capacity of labour inspectors to identify and
monitor hazardous child labour
Training to district and state Education Department officials
Training and Sensitisation programmes to officers from other government
departments
Training and sensitisation programmes for civil society organisations
including employers and workers organisations and NGOs
Orientation to NCLP project directors and project staff, and project staff
under SSA
