The European Commission’s call for proposals to fight child labour has an overall objective of contributing towards eradicating child labour. Specifically, it seeks to “promote effective policy dialogue aimed at eradicating child labour, bringing victims of child labour, trafficking or violence into full-time quality education/vocational-education training and reintegrating them into society” and “to support partnership and networking between key stakeholders, in particular non-State actors, public entities and the private sector, by promoting corporate social responsibility in the area of child labour.”
Funding will be prioritized to project actions that:
1. Promote the ratification and implementation through legislation and enforcement of ILO
- conventions against child labour: Conventions 29 on forced labour, 105 on the abolition of forced
- labour, 182 on the elimination of the worst forms of child labour and 138 on the minimum age for admission to employment.
Activities under this priority may include:
- Lobbying, advocacy and awareness raising activities to advance the ratification;
- Support to the development and monitoring of effective measures to implement the ILO conventions against child labour;
2. Link child labour and social protection. Activities under this priority may include:
- Identification, exchange and dissemination of best practices, lessons learned and innovative approaches for strengthening and monitoring the development and implementation of social protection policies to fight child labour and reduce children’s vulnerability, including gender-specific vulnerability;
- Awareness raising and campaigning;
- Promotion of children’s educational attainment;
- Enhancement of socio-economic safety nets for families and communities, including policies on prevention and reintegration of victims of child labour;
- Capacity building of local non-State actors in beneficiary countries.
3. Sustain Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) against child labour.
Activities under this priority may include:
- Creation and strengthening of partnerships and networking between non-State actors, government policy-making institutions, agencies and local authorities, private companies, local communities, child ombudspersons at local, national and/or international level.
- Activities to encourage, develop, implement and monitor social protection interventions and projects preventing and/or countering child labour;
- Awareness raising about responsibilities of private companies and duty bearers vis-à-vis children’s rights and assistance to child labour victims;
- Monitoring of private companies’ social behaviour and duty bearers’ policies and actions, elaboration of codes of conducts, monitoring and independent verification of companies’ behaviours and advocacy on CSR policies and research on child labour.
