International Labour Organization (ILO)

Strengthening of the Punjab Council for the Rights of Children (PCRC) and Child Labour Resource Centre (CLRC) to Combat Child Labour

Proposed Duration: 1 April 2001 - 31 March 2003

Objectives:

• To strengthen the capacity of the Department of Labour to tackle the child labour problem effectively;

• To maintain a flow of information through a website monitored at the Child Labour Resource Centre and to collect and create publications child Labour.

Activities:

• Development of a child labour training course ,the required training materials ,hiring of professional trainer(s) preparation of TORs for them, obtain nominations of the relevant agencies and carry out 12 training courses for up to 15 officials at a time;

• Organize awareness raising events for distribution of printed material and publications ,establish contact with media to disseminate information ,arrange public gatherings for mass awareness at selected localities and hold joint events with stakeholders on International Children's Day;

• Hold regular meetings with all stakeholders and members of the two bodies PCRC and CLRC and develop common understanding on policy matters to direct efforts towards achieving national goals under the approved National Action Plan;

• Motivate community to notice and report violations of law to the concerned agencies or if hesitant to PCRC for follow up action;

• Collect, organize, feed and update the information in the website for global consumers of information and keeping interaction through e-mail for feed back;

• Selection and purchase of relevant publications on child labour and prepare a bibliography for easy access to reference material.

Remarks:

This action programmes will develop the capacity building of the Provincial labour department, and develop information materials that will invariably include gender sensitive perspective.