1. The Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) programme and ICID Database
Opportunity for research
Summer School in Development Economics
Prato
June 22, 2017

2. ICID-Programme background
The Italian Centre for International Development (ICID) – hosted by CEIS-University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ – aims at promoting a better understanding of current and prospective global development challenges through an inter-disciplinary approach.
To this end, the mandate of ICID has been designed along the following 3 core pillars:
Promoting and implementing high-level and policy-relevant research across the wide spectrum of development areas.
Building and facilitating an inter-disciplinary network of experts in the development arena, connecting academia and researchers as well as practitioners in the development field, with a view to increasing the impact of the research community on policy making and development cooperation.

3. ICID-Programme background
Creating training opportunities for young researchers in the development field, through PhD and Master courses, seminar and workshop series, student exchanges (involving institutions from both industrialized and less-industrialized countries), as well as research mentoring.
ICID’s design and composition provides it with a unique capacity for state-of-the-art research addressing the many interconnected development issues facing today’s globalized world.
The ownership and reach of ICID research is strengthened further through active research partnerships with government counterparts, workers’ and employers’ organizations, international development organizations, private financial institutions, private sector firms, as well as regional and international development banks.
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4. UCW-Programme background
Launched in December 2000
Inter-agency research cooperation initiative involving ILO, UNICEF and World Bank
Forms part of the Research and Evaluation Unit of the ILO FUNDAMENTALS Branch
Financed by contributions from donor countries and by core agency resources
Located at the ILO Office for Italy in Rome
Guided by the recommendations of the Roadmap adopted at The Hague Global Child Labour Conference 2010 and the Sustainable Development Goals
Mandate now extends to research addressing other fundamental principles and rights at work violations (i.e. forced labour, discrimination, freedom of association)

5. UCW-Programme background
The Roadmap highlights the urgent need to upscale and accelerate country level actions against child labour in order to succeed in global child labour elimination goals.
Policy priorities identified in the Roadmap include adopting and enforcing legislation on child labour, developing and implementing national action plans, providing adequate resources to achieve policy goals, and supporting decent and productive work for adults and youth of working age.
In addition, the Roadmap underscores the importance of improved child labour statistics and knowledge to inform policy action. 

6. UCW-Programme background
In close partnership with leading academics and decisionmakers – policymakers, practitioners, and donors working with child laboures and vulnerable youth around the world – UCW produces research aimed at informing policies in the area of child labour and youth employment. Research covers child labour and youth employment challenges in their various dimensions – their nature, extent, causes and consequences – as well as which policies approaches are most effective in addressing them.
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7. Core programme components

8. STATISTICS AND MEASUREMENT

9. STATISTICS AND MEASUREMENT
The Statistics and measurement component is aimed at improving the technical tools used to measure, monitor and analyse child labour and youth employment issues.
The database provides a wide array of indicators on child labour, schooling and related topics, organised by country, reference year and topic.
The indicators are also decomposed by sex, residence and age range.
The statistics for each indicator are based on a variety of nationally-representative household surveys.

10. STATISTICS AND MEASUREMENT
Develop a system for monitoring SDG 8.7 and youth employment
New interactive child labour indicators database, expansion to include adolescent hazardous work, child labour trends, forced labour indicators
Development and harmonisation of indicators and support to ICLS process (e.g., household chores, forced labour)
Dissemination of CL statistics (e.g., USDOL TDA Report, World Bank Development Indicator (WDI)

11. STATISTICS AND MEASUREMENT
Child labour indicators – broad categories
CHILD LABOUR
HAZARDOUS WORK
CHILD LABOUR INCLUDING HOUSEHOLD CHORES
CHILD LABOUR BY SECTOR IN EMPLOYMENT
CHILD LABOUR BY STATUS IN EMPLOYMENT
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
CHILDREN'S ACTIVITY STATUS
CHILD POPULATION
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY BY WEALTH QUINTILE
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE BY WEALTH QUINTILE
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY BY SECTOR IN EMPLOYMENT
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY BY STATUS IN EMPLOYMENT
WORKING HOURS
HOUSEHOLD CHORES
WEEKLY HOURS IN HOUSEHOLD CHORES
CHILD LABOUR AS PERCENTAGE OF CHILDREN IN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

12. STATISTICS AND MEASUREMENT
Example of available indicators
CHILD LABOUR
Available indicators
Child labour, 5-14 yr olds, total
Child labour, 5-14 yr olds, male
Child labour, 5-14 yr olds, female
Child labour, 5-14 yr olds, urban
Child labour, 5-14 yr olds, rural
Child labour, 5-17 yr olds, total
Child labour, 5-17 yr olds, male
Child labour, 5-17 yr olds, female
Child labour, 5-17 yr olds, urban
Child labour, 5-17 yr olds, rural
Hazardous work, yr olds, total
Hazardous work, yr olds, male
Hazardous work, yr olds, female
Hazardous work, yr olds, urban
Hazardous work, yr olds, rural

13. STATISTICS AND MEASUREMENT

14. STATISTICS AND MEASUREMENT
Youth employment indicators – broad categories

15. World bank survey data catalogue
1. STATISTICS AND MEASUREMENT: source of data
ILO SIMPOC surveys (Monitoring Programme on Child Labour) (
World Bank multi-purpose household surveys (Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture LSMS-ISA) (
World bank survey data catalogue (

16. UNICEF MICS (Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys ) surveys
1. STATISTICS AND MEASUREMENT: source of data
UNICEF MICS (Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys ) surveys (
Demographic and Health surveys - DHS program (
and National Labour Force surveys;
are among the most important instruments for generating information on child labour and youth employment issue in developing countries.

17. 2. POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH

18. 2. POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH
The approach

19. 2. POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH
Example: research papers

20. CHILD LABOUR BIBLIOGRAPHY
The bibliography provides a comprehensive listing of published research relating to child labour, organised by author, topic and year

21. 3. IMPACT EVALUATION

22. 3. IMPACT EVALUATION
The Impact evaluation component forms part of a broader effort to improve understanding of the relative effectiveness of different programmatic approaches for addressing child labour and youth employment challenges.
It focuses on building and spreading knowledge on the impact of specific programme interventions on child labour and youth employment and on ways to measure such impact.

23. 3. IMPACT EVALUATION – the approach

24. 3. IMPACT EVALUATION
Cash transfer scheme in the Philippines (4Ps), Lesotho (CGP) and Mexico (Prospera)
Improving the design of cash transfer programs to address child labour
Remedial education (Speed School Programme, Mali);
Public works (Malawi Social Action Fund);
Women’s empowerment (RIB, Nicaragua)
Filling the knowledge gap on the child labour impact of other interventions
Impact evaluation of IPEC project in El Salvador.
Evaluation of child labour targeted programs
Inventory of impact evaluations
Review of impact evaluations of policy interventions relating to child labour
Spreading knowledge on child labour impact

25. 3. IMPACT EVALUATION
The results of these evaluations are posted on the web-based impact evaluation studies

26. 3. IMPACT EVALUATION: inventory

27. 3. IMPACT EVALUATION: inventory
Example: completed impact evaluations of projects in the social protection sector

28. 4. COUNTRY LEVEL STUDIES

29. 4. COUNTRY LEVEL STUDIES
The Country Report series provides overviews of child labour, youth employment and related issues in specific national contexts.
The reports help in creating a common knowledge base on these issues and in informing policy responses to them.
They are the product of a collaborative effort involving Government, local stakeholders and researchers, the three UCW partner agencies and the UCW Secretariat.
Thematic background research papers by national counterparts feed into the development of the Country Reports. 

30. 4. COUNTRY LEVEL STUDIES
Implementation mechanisms

31. 4. COUNTRY LEVEL STUDIES The Country report
are posted on the web-based
COUNTRY REPORTS

32. 5. UNIVERSITY COLLABORATION

33. 5. UNIVERSITY COLLABORATION
Collaboration with universities and research institutes is aimed at promoting and building the local capacity to undertake child labour research;
It is contributing in a substantial way towards creating a community of researchers working on child labour, youth employment and related issues in countries where eliminating child labour and ensuring decent work for youth remain priority challenges