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Call for Proposals on Combating Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL) in India

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Last Date: 25th Sept 2015

Activities: Others

Terre des Hommes Netherlands calls for proposals on Comatin Wordst forms of Child Labour
Deadline for submission of full application: 25 September 2015 (1700 ICT)

Introduction:Terre des Hommes Netherlands is a development organization dedicated to children; it is named after a book by the famous French writer and World War II pilot Antoine de Saint Exupèry – author of “The Little Prince”. Even before this book was published, he wrote “Terre des Hommes” (Earth of Mankind) in which he called upon ‘the people of the earth’ to take their responsibilities seriously and to show solidarity. He said: “There is no third world. There is one world for which we’re all responsible.”

The United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the cornerstone of all our programmes. This Convention represents the recognition by the international community that not only do children deserve to be protected, but that they have a right to be so. These rights have been enshrined in this almost universally accepted treaty and have subsequently been incorporated in national legislation in an overwhelming majority of the world’s nations.

The main theme of Terre des Hommes' work centers on the issue of child exploitation, the most serious violation of the rights of the child. Increasing numbers of children fall victim of human trafficking, sexual exploitation or hazardous forms of child labour as defined by the ILO’s 1999 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (ILO Convention 182). Terre des Hommes Netherlands strives to prevent child exploitation, removes children from exploitative situations and ensures that they may develop in a secure, healthy and supportive environment. The organization invests in education, training and capacity enhancement, in raising awareness among children, youth and adults and – given that poverty is one of the main factors contributing to child exploitation – Terre des Hommes Netherlands offers parents the opportunity to increase their income by providing access to savings and credit schemes. To seek justice for the victims, Terre des Hommes Netherlands encourages children and their families to report abuse and child exploitation cases, offers legal aid and social protection, trains and assists police, public prosecution offices and justice departments. Victims can also count on Terre des Hommes Netherlands and partners for assistance during police investigation and legal proceedings.

To advocate and promote the rights of children, Terre des Hommes Netherlands organizes public and media campaigns to raise awareness, conducts research into the scale and nature of abuse and exploitation as well as lobbying for attention and change. The organization follows and seeks to influence policy makers on local, national and international levels to adopt, ratify, maintain and enforce legislation to prevent child exploitation and to protect victims of such practices.

Terre des Hommes Netherlands always works together with local project partners. These partners are familiar with the situation ‘on the ground’ and know the best ways of reaching out and helping the children concerned.

Tackling the Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL) is an important concentration area in Terre des Hommes Netherlands current strategic plan (2011-2015). As part of its new strategic plan (2016-2020) Terre des Hommes Netherlands plans to increase its support to comprehensive programmes addressing child labour in Asia.

Background:Approximately 41 million child labourers aged 5-14 years old live in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar and in the Philippines. More than 45% of these children are girls. Poverty is one of the main reasons for the high number of children involved in child labour in Asia as in these countries more than half a billion people live below the poverty line. There is enormous diversity within the countries; the region has varied economies and political systems that provide very different contexts for the reasons why children engaged in labour, the problems they face, their prospects for moving on from the exploitative situation, and a wide range of government as well as civil society responses and interventions available to worst form of child labour.

Different studies and the learning and experience of Terre des Hommes Netherlands interventions in the countries has found working children in a number of economic sectors, including seafood processing, garment and footwear factories, mining and quarrying, pyrotechnics, rag-picking and scavenging, rubber and sugar-cane plantations, entertainment, cultivation of agriculture and other services. Worst forms of child labour in the countries includes child domestic work (CDW), bonded child labour, hazardous child labour, trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, and the recruitment and use of children for armed conflict or drug trafficking.This list is not exclusive but it gives an indication of the efforts being made to document the many and varied forms of child labour. In the Indian context, this call for proposal aims to address the issues of child domestic work (CDW), girls/ young women in textiles & garments industry and children in mining sector.

Although there has been progress in reducing child labour in the countries, the achievement is fragile in some cases and must be monitored and strengthened to ensure sustainability. A high tolerance for child labour in the countries exacerbates the problem and hinders the implementation of action against it. In addition, a large number of children in areas affected by natural disasters and climate change are vulnerable to entering into child labour.

Over the years, countries have made significant advancement in terms of law and regulatory framework against child labour. At the sub regional level also; concerted efforts have been undertaken to promote child welfare and combat the trafficking of children. SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) member States signed the SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating the Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution SAARC Convention on Regional Arrangements for the Promotion of Child Welfare in South Asia. The signing of these two Conventions is seen as a milestone on the path to facilitate and help in the development and protection of the full potential of the south Asian child, promote understanding and awareness of the rights, duties and responsibilities of the children and others, and to set up appropriate regional arrangements to assist the member States in fulfilling the rights of the child, taking into account the changing needs of the child.

ASEAN Labour Ministers’ Work Programme, 2010-2015has planned the development of regional guidelines with respect to eliminating the worst forms of child labour based on appropriate studies.

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