Manage research on child labor, education and poverty in strategic countries, including some of the E-9 countries (nine of the world's high-population countries, e.g. Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Nigeria and Pakistan), which together account for more than 50 percent of the world's out-of-school children.
Organize national-level consultations in strategic countries engaging governments, civil society and the donor community in supporting national efforts to reduce poverty and achieve education for all. The core of the understanding is that poverty alleviation and education for all cannot be achieved until children are withdrawn in a time bound manner from work and brought to schools.
Strengthen partnerships in Asia, South and Central America, Eastern Europe and Africa by facilitating regional consultations for multi-year planning of interventions at the country level and regional level.
Evaluate the education plans of Education for All – Fast Track Initiative (EFA–FTI) countries for explicit concern with child labor and document identification, removal, rehabilitation and reintegration methods: A review carried about the World Bank from August-September 2005 found that of the 70 countries that have prepared a PRSP, only 12 dealt with child labor. ICCLE plans to appraise the education plans of the twenty EFA–FTI countries for methods of identifying out-of school children and removing, rehabilitating and reintegrating child laborers in order to provide critical input on how countries propose to bring all out-of-school children to classrooms.
Co-organize a side meeting on education and the FTI during the Annual Meetings of the IMF/World Bank, September: ICCLE plans to bring the child labor dimension into this meeting engaging the finance ministers in partnership with the EFA-FTI secretariat of the World Bank.
Organize joint Round Table on Achieving EFA and the Elimination of Child Labor parallel to UNESCO’s annual High-Level Group on EFA, November.
Provide U.S. government officials and other key policy makers with the opportunity to interact with former child laborers during the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank and Global Action Week on EFA, April,and on World Day against Child Labor, June 12.
Participate inthe jointGlobal Task Force on Child Labor and Education, UNESCO’s Working Group on EFA and UNESCO’s Global Monitoring Report Committee on EFA
Strengthen partnerships with U.S. educational organizations by creating a link from their national organization web sites and submitting articles and timely information on new teaching resources, professional development opportunities, student contests, etc. to be included in their publications and on their web sites.
Organize multiple workshops a year for teachers on how to teach about international child labor topics, in partnership with U.S. educational organizations.
Participate in conferences of strategic U.S. educational organizations, such as the National Council for Social Studies Annual Conference.
Upgrade and market new project web site http://www.knowchildlabor.org/, designed to promote interaction among U.S. teachers and children and youth and the sharing of valuable information and resources on international child labor issues
Provide U.S. youth with the opportunity to interact with former child laborers during Global Action Week on EFA, April,and around World Day against Child Labor, June 12.
Develop new "Idea Competition," in which U.S. youth pitch proposals suggesting a cutting-edge idea on how to build knowledge of a specific child labor problem among a targeted audience, culminating in event in Washington, D.C. on World Day against Child Labor, June 12, involving competition winners, former child laborers, policy makers, donors, NGOs and civil society.
Document the special needs of certain groups of out-of-school children to be able to attend school,such as children working in the brick kilns in Pakistan.
Document the effective methods utilized by NGOs to remove, rehabilitate and reintegrate child laborers.
Document true stories of child laborers turned activists, highlighting their special needs to attend school.
Document and disseminate creative art forms (poetry, art, music and theater) utilized by youth worldwide to build knowledge of global child labor issues.
Document and disseminate the effective education methods utilized by U.S. youth to build knowledge of global child labor issues among targeted groups.
Strengthen the partnership and networking with U.S. youth engaged in child labor issues by building and making available online the directory of U.S. youth clubs engaged in global child labor issues.
