Participating education and finance ministers, developing and donor countries, various UN agencies and the World Bank will develop a shared perspective on the linkages between child labor, education and poverty, as demonstrated by increasing explicit treatment of child labor in education plans and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and making finances available by 2008 in order to achieve EFA by 2015.
ICCLE will document the identification, removal, rehabilitation and reintegration methods to tackle child labor outlined by the governments (E-9 and EFA-FTI countries) in their national education plans and PRSPs, identifying the most promising mechanisms.
The PRSP source book, which is the guiding tool for countries to design their Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, and the PRSPs and education plans of strategic countries will increasingly include explicit concern with child labor and child labor elimination strategies.
UNESCO’s Global Monitoring Report on Education for All will increasingly identify the more than 100 million out-of-school children and their special needs.
U.S. government officials participating will develop not only understanding that child labor is a key obstacle to universal education, economic development and global peace and security, but also empathy and desire to take action.
Additional finances will become available by the end of the year 2007 or the beginning of the year 2008 to support the attainment of Education for All by 2015.
UN agencies and governments participating in the Global Task Force on Child Labor and Education will develop and implement some bold joint initiatives at the country level.
Countries participating will advance the goal of eliminating child labor by 2015 as demonstrated by decreasing numbers of child laborers.
Countries participating will advance the goal of universal education by 2015 as demonstrated by increasing school enrolment and retention rates.
Some 40 new teachers per year will be equipped with the resources and skills they need to teach about international child labor topics in their classrooms.
About fifty percent of U.S. teachers participating in workshops will teach about international child labor topics in their classrooms.
U.S. youth engaged will be provided with the information and skills they need to build community knowledge of global child labor issues and to implement lasting solutions
U.S. youth engaged will develop not only understanding of global child labor issues, but also empathy and desire to take action.
Approximately ten involved U.S. youth groups per year will develop and implement real, honest-to-goodness ideas to build community knowledge of global child labor issues and/or lasting solutions to such issues.
U.S. youth winners of the idea competition will enhance their leadership and life achievement prospects.
A collection of real, honest-to-goodness education ideas will be created to be used in building domestic knowledge of global child labor issues among specific groups in the future.
ICCLE will document the obstacles preventing certain groups of out-of-school children from attending school in developing countries, identifying the special needs of these children.
ICCLE will document the effective removal, rehabilitation and reintegration methods utilized by NGOs, identifying those with the greatest success.
The collection of true stories of child laborers turned activities in developing countries will be broadened to be used in educating key policy makers and the public about the obstacles hindering children from attending school and the special needs of out-of-school children to attend school in the future.
The collection of creative art forms (poetry, art, music and theater) utilized by youth worldwide will be developed to be used in broadening public knowledge of global child labor issues.
A collection of effective education methods utilized by youth will be created to be used in replicating effective practices and broadening public knowledge of child labor issues among specific groups in the future.
The directory of U.S. youth clubs, big and small, established and new, engaged in global child labor issues will be developed and made available for collaboration and promoting interaction among these groups.
More of the U.S. public will know about global child labor issues, as a result of our partnership with U.S. educational organizations, such as the National Council for Social Studies, American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association, teachers and students.
