Child breaking rocks in stone quarry, India Photo: © Crozet M. - ILO

India
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The Philippines
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These case studies were adapted by the International Center on Child Labor and Education (ICCLE) from studies documenting good practices by non-governmental organizations to rehabilitate, educate and empower child laborers. The original research was made possible through a 2002 grant to ICCLE from the International Labor Organization's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC). The objective was to identify and document the recurring and unique good practices inherent in multiple innovative grassroots programs to combat the worst forms of child labor in the world's poorest communities. The aim was to promote global awareness of such practices through the dissemination of the case studies and to inspire collective action towards the elimination of the worst forms of child labor.

The identification of the good practices was done through extensive consultations engaging the National and Regional Coordinators of the Global March against Child labor and the country offices of the ILO-IPEC. Programs had to: 1.) address child labor from a broad socio-economic perspective, 2.) focus on psychological or physical trauma suffered by the children, 3.) provide access to appropriate quality education 4.) involve families and/or community in program development, and 5.) be cost effective.

The case studies were documented by independent local consultants using secondary data to collect information and undertaking field visits to verify and correlate information. The assessments were based on interviews with representatives of non-governmental organizations, national and provincial Government offices, international agencies active in countries, and civil society. The studies were developed from June-December 2003. The original authors were Amit Mitra and Shukla Basu, New Delhi, India, and Luisa Logan, The Philippines.

Disclaimer: Adaption of these case studies for high school-students aged 13-17 was made possible through a grant from the United States Department of Labor under cooperative Agreement number E-9-K-4-0044.