e-Learning on International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour

The purpose of this E-learning course was to enhance the understanding of participants regarding the sustained eradication of child labour. The course also assisted key global and national level actors to determine actions to be undertaken on the occasion of the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour (IYCL) and beyond, paving the way for a world where no child is subject to child labour or exploitation. OBJECTIVES As a result of this course participants have: • Enhanced their understanding of child labour, and the means of eradicating it; • Become more familiar with the key policy responses, global partnership platforms as well as other intervention models that have proved effective in eliminating child labour; • Understood how organizations, governments and other actors can accelerate results and be more effective in reducing child labour through partnerships; • Identified a network of actors with whom they can further engage regarding the challenges they are facing and potential actions they and others can contribute during IYCL, the Fifth Global conference on Child Labour (in 2022), and beyond. CONTENT • Module 1: What is child labour? How is it defined in international conventions, national law and in practice? The latest global estimates on child labour, focus sectors and regions, and the impact of COVID19 • Module 2: How to tackle child labour: what experience has demonstrated, examples of intervention models to address child labour: Child Labour Monitoring, National Action Plans, Sectoral and Area-based approaches including Child Labour Free Zones, Tripartite Social Dialogue. Special focus on child labour in agriculture and education as the first response to child labour. • Module 3: What can you/your organization do about child labour working alone or in cooperation or partnership with others as a means of improving the impact of your actions and of accelerating results. Child Labour Platform, International Partnership for Cooperation on Child Labour in Agriculture (IPPCLA).