Combating Child Labour through Education: A Resource Kit for Policy-Makers and Practitioners

This education resource kit assembles - in one document - research, guidelines, tools, and good practices on combating child labour through education. The 25 resources included in the kit were collected and developed by the International Labour Organization - International Programme on Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) and its partners during the period 2002-2008.

The kit distils recent experience on the link between child labour and education and provides tools and guidance to be used by a wide audience - from policy makers to practitioners. The materials are grouped in four areas reflecting the range of IPEC work in this area:

1. Policy, advocacy, and awareness raising
   
2. Technical guidelines, good practices, and evaluations
   
3. Resources for practitioners
   
4. Research and working papers 

The first section addresses policy, advocacy, and awareness raising. IPEC’s strategy to mainstream child labour into Education for All efforts has placed priority on enhancing the policy environment.

Table of contents:

• About the kit
• The resources
• Policy, advocacy and awareness raising
  1. Combating child labour through education;
  2. Child labour and education policy: A training manual IPEC;
  3. Getting girls out of work and into school;
  4. Reaching the unreached - our common challenge: The global task force on child labour and Education for All
• Technical guidelines, good practices and evaluations
  1. Education and skills training;
  2. Technical design guidelines;
  3. Education as an intervention strategy to eliminate and prevent child labour: Consolidated good practices in education and child labour;
  4. Emerging good practices in the elimination of child labour and the achievement of Education for All;
  5. Thematic review of formal and non-formal education to combat child labour;
  6. Thematic evaluation of skills training interventions to prevent and eliminate child labour; Non-formal education and rural skills training: Tools to combat the worst forms of child labour including trafficking;
  7. Towards Equal Opportunities for All: Empowering girls through partnerships in education;
  8. Out of work and into school our development challenge: Publication of project experiences, 2001-2006
• Resources for practitioners
  1. Child labour: An information kit for teachers, educators and their organizations;
  2. SCREAM Stop child labour pack;
  3. World Day classroom materials;
• Research and working papers
  1. Child labour and education: Evidence from Statistical Information and Monitoring Programme on Child Labour
     (SIMPOC) surveys;
  2. Compulsory education and child labour: Historical lessons, contemporary challenges and future directions;
  3. Conceptual framework for child labour interventions in the education sector;
  4. Indigenous and tribal children: Assessing child labour and education challenges;
  5. Gender, education and child labour in Egypt;
  6. Gender, education and child labour in Lebanon;
  7. Gender, education and child labour in Turkey;
  8. Costs and benefits of education to replace child labour;
  9. Child labour, school attendance and academic performance: A review;
  10. Child labour and Education for All: An issues paper