IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Data collection, research and analysis on child labour: The ILO/IPEC experience 2011 US-DOL Grantee Workshop Washington DC, 1 June 2011

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour This presentation will … …highlight the aims of IPEC’s research programme …present the SIMPOC survey programme and its instruments …emphasize the importance of the inter-agency UCW project for IPEC’s research architecture … introduce key lines of research and their output …discuss research projects currently underway and future priority areas

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour IPEC has a long-standing and multi- layered research programme Data collection / SIMPOC Policy-oriented research Intervention-oriented research Impact assessments / evaluation

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Global Action Plan and Roadmap: The 2016 target Data and research to support accelerated action against WFCL Focus on hazardous work; agriculture and Africa Closing the knowledge gap on specific worst forms Linking up with work on education, social protection and youth employment

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Central aims and features IPEC data collection, research and analysis programme Provides empirical evidence and analysis to shape sound policy development Facilitates project identification and the setting up of interventions against child labour Driven by constituent demand Responds to call on ILO in Global Action Plan and Hague Roadmap

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Sound child labour data help us… assess the nature and extent of child labour set targets and priorities in the fight against child labour increase public awareness develop appropriate policies, programmes and legislation

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour SIMPOC Statistical Information and Monitoring Programme on Child Labour Established in 1998 Statistical arm of the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) Assists countries in collecting data on extent, characterististics and determinants of child labour Active in more than 70 countries More than 350 surveys to date; 80+ national household surveys on child labour Guided by ICLS Resolution

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour SIMPOC Development of statistical methodologies and instruments Country-level data collection Global estimates and trends Analysis and dissemination Capacity-building of NSOs SIMPOC Activity Range

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour SIMPOC Nat’l CL household surveys Surveys on WFCL other than hazardous work Etablishment surveys Rapid assessments Baseline surveys SIMPOC Surveys

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour IPEC-SIMPOC Main Child Labour (CL) Data Collection Approaches.. 2 Provides national estimates of the extent of child labour Identifies causes and consequence of child labour in terms of related socio-economic factors Household- based surveys

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour IPEC-SIMPOC Main Child Labour (CL) Data Collection Approaches.. 3 Approaches from demand side Provides information on working conditions and enterprise/establishments Can use both qualitative and quantitative method or their combination Establishment- based surveys

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour IPEC-SIMPOC Main Child Labour (CL) Data Collection Approaches.. 4 Qualitative information on worst forms of child labour. Particularly useful in sensitive environments Street children surveys School-based surveys Rapid assessments

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour IPEC-SIMPOC Main Child Labour (CL) Data Collection Approaches.. 5 Uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques Captures initial/existing conditions (“Baseline”) of a situation by measuring variables to be used in repeater surveys Baseline surveys

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour IPEC-SIMPOC Main Child Labour (CL) Data Collection Approaches.. 5 Variety of survey instruments applied (HH & workplace survey) Nat‘l level estimation exercises now made possible through new methodologies Data collection on CSEC, forced labour and trafficking

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour 15 11/26/2015ww w.ilo.org International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour SIMPOC National Child Labour Surveys

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour 16 11/26/2015ww w.ilo.org International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Follow-up National Child Labour Surveys

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour SIMPOC national child labour surveys in Africa

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Follow-up NCLS in Africa

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Key outputs IPEC research programme Analytical reports and working papers Policy-oriented papers Global reports Manuals / toolkits / textbooks

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Examples of research recently concluded Forced labour: quantification exercises at the national level Trafficking and CSEC: Development of quantification tools Conflict & child labour: assessing the impact of conflict and post-conflict situations on child labour levels and characteristics

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Examples of research recently concluded Hazardous work of children and its health impact (to be released at World Day 2011) Global estimate of child domestic work Child labour country trends in LAC

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Research currently underway …. Global economic crisis: How has it impacted child labour? National-level studies on the cost of eliminating the WFCL Inter-agency country level policy appraisals How to measure and build indicators for hazardous unpaid HH services Global estimation exercise of child labour induced injuries and illnesses

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Research currently underway …. Finetuning our knowledge on CL in agriculture: Towards activity and crop-based data Child labour and education: The impact of work on retention; work status of out-of-school children

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Priority areas for future research The role of social protection (beyond cash transfers) in reducing CL Estimating the “Global Burden”of CL related injuries and illnesses Impact of migration flows on child labour Early labour entry and youth employment outcomes Child labour policy challenges in SSA Child labour impact evaluations

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour