This presentation describes a multisectoral national plan of action for combating child labor in Jordan. The plan addresses policies and programs in the following areas: education and training, social welfare services, protected work schemes, advocacy and public awareness raising, regulation and enforcement.
This national plan was based upon: recommendations of a national study on child labor in Jordan commissioned by the International Labor Organization; individual plans of actions by relevant ministries; and suggestions and recommendations of participants in the working sessions of a national workshop on child labor that took place in Amman, Jordan in July 1998.
Objectives and program activities of this plan focus on the following areas: 1) Formulation of a national policy on child labor and the establishment of national programs of action; 2) Formulation of interventions for protection, removal of working children from hazardous occupations and their rehabilitation; 3) Formulation of interventions for the prevention of school drop-out through reform of the formal and non-formal educational systems; 4) Legislative reform (child abuse, rights of the child, education and labor laws), advocacy, and enforcement of laws; 5) Poverty alleviation by promoting community based programs for sustained social and economic development and rehabilitation and training of the poor and unemployed.
This multidisciplinary plan of action represents a unique convergent and radical approach for combating child labor. This comprehensive framework which triggered effective action programs represents successful collaboration among governmental, non-governmental organizations, employers’ and workers’ unions and can be used as a model for other developing countries.
Learning Objectives: By the end of the session the learner will be able to identify at least four areas that have to be addressed in a national plan for preventing and eliminating child labor in a developing country.
Keywords: Adolescent Health, Labor
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.