National Action Plan to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Lebanon by 2016

Republic of Lebanon

National Action Plan to Eliminate the Worst Forms of

Child Labour in Lebanonby 2016

2

3

Foreword by President of the Republic

Lebanon, which has taken part in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and which is committed to its philosophy and approach alike, is proud to have ratified the international andArab agreements pertaining to childhood, especially those related to the “abolishment of child labour”. How is it possible to reconcile commitment to the Human Rights Charter with Child Dignity, under working conditions that undermine human values and the foundations of human societies, since child labour is not merely confined to developing countries, but has rather become, at the onset of this millennium, a global problem that has crossed the borders of the countries? The harshest thing about child labour is that it steals childhood innocence and deprives those who were forced by life’s circumstances to embrace it from the simplest and most basic rights, such as to grow in the warmth of a family; as it exposes them to health and psychological risks, turning them into a direct and easy target for new kinds of perversions.

Lebanonhastakenadvancedstepsinfightingchildlabour.Whatisrequiredtoday,istomoveontowardsadopting a comprehensive national strategy, specific for children,with a double-objective, namely topreserve their rights while ensuring their protection. Complementarity and partnership between our nationalinstitutionsandthecivilsocietyorganizationsarestillrequiredinthisdirection,providedthatthey will strive with similar efforts to combat poverty and need, the direct causes of child labour.

Lebanon has experienced the horrors of continuous wars for decades, for which citizens have paid a high price. Moreover, it realizes that the ugliest violations of children’s rights can be committed by involving theminarmedconflictsandpoliticalquarrels,whereastheybecome,unwillingly,amalleabletoolinthehand of terrorism, which takes away from them any human sense.

Today, as we launch the national action plan to “abolish the worst forms of child labour by the year 2016’, I amvery confident thatwearemoving forward,withgreatdetermination, towards achievingimportant goals, in view of safeguarding our nation’s future by protecting its children who are Lebanon’s “tomorrow” and its path towards Life.

Allmyappreciation,supportandgratitudegotoallthosewhoareentrustedwiththeimplementationof this plan, for their devotion, loyalty and faithfulness to the life of Lebanon and the dignity of the Lebanese.

Michel Sleiman President of the Lebanese Republic

4

Foreword by Ministry of Labour

Attentionandcaregiventolabourissues,workersandrelevantlegislationsshould not be limited to adult workers or to mediation in disputes between employers and workers or regulating of the migrant labour force. It should rather be much more comprehensive and wider in scope as these issues involve further elements, details and approaches.

Social Justice cannot be reached by only ensuring decent work for male and female workers, or by promoting and implementing the fundamental principles and rights at work such as discrimination in employment and occupation, acknowledging the rights of collective bargaining and freedom of association, and or eliminating forced labour, unless another more noble goal is achieved whichistheeliminationof childlabourinallitsformsnamelyitsworstforms.Howcansocialjusticebeachieved in a society where children are living in very dreadful conditions in the society, pushed to work in a labour market full of dangers and malpractices that destroy their bodies, degrade their morals, shatter their hopes, destroy their future, and or even deprives them their lives?

WhenLebanonratifiedinternationalandArabconventionsrelatedtochildren,namelyfor“CombatingChild Labour”, it wasn’t a coincidence but a commitment to the respect of human rights based on Lebanon’s extensive culture of such rights.

However,CombatingtheWorstFormsof ChildLabourcannotbeachievedthroughlegislationsalonebut it certainly cannot be achieved without them.

Ever since its establishment, the Ministry gave this issue special attention based on the fact that each child or youth committing an act detrimental to his/her upbringing and morals is a disgrace for whoever is in charge of providing decent work conditions. How can a work be decent if the worker is a child or youthexploitedatsomany levels?Howcanwereconcilebetweentherequirementsof theUniversalDeclaration of Human Rights and the dignity and rights of working youth or children namely in light of the harsh working conditions that affect the core of human values and children’s rights for a healthy upbringing?

Wefollowedthispathandlaunchedtheslogan:“TogethertowardsasocietyfreefromtheWorstFormsof Child Labour”.

Our children are the center of our attention in our daily work emanating from the fact that the child of today is the youth of tomorrow and the man or woman of the future, and the path of life starts with the respect of his/her age, privacy, fragility and feelings.

The Ministry of Labour has strived and is still striving to give this issue the priority it deserves, based on theprovisionsof twointernationallabourconventions,ConventionNo138ontheMinimumAgeforAdmissiontoEmploymentandConventionNo182ontheWorstFormof ChildLabour.

Committed to applying these conventions, the Ministry of Labour, and with remarkable encouragement of H.E. President of the Republic of Lebanon, General Michel Suleiman and a rapid response from H.E. Prime Minister and their Excellencies the Ministers, issued decree No 8987 dated on 29/12/2012 prohibitingtheemploymentof childrenundertheageof 18injobsthatarelikelytoharmtheirhealth,safety or morals.

5

6

However, the pressing economic and social situation that Lebanon is currently witnessing has had a negativeimpactonthebehaviorof Lebanesechildren,andnon-Lebanesedisplacedorrefugees’children.This isnot tomention the exploitation that these children arebeing subjected to in theirdaily lives.Thousands are living under very harsh conditions stealing away their childhood and health. This situation led and obliges some of them to use weapons and even participate in riots and acts of violence, which is adangerousperversion in thebehaviorof childrenand juveniles totallydisregardedbyadults andencouraged by them.

Nonetheless, it is worth mentioning that the slogan did not remain “a slogan”. It was translated into action. Aspecializednationalcommitteewasestablishedof representativesfromrelevantPublicAdministrationsand Ministries, civil society as well as representatives of international organizations. This Committee was inchargeof combatingandconfronting thisphenomenon.Andas theeliminationof child labour isanationalresponsibility,itwasnecessarytoactivatetheroleof thisNationalSteeringCommitteeAgainstChild Labour in the Ministry of Labour with the continuous cooperation and collaboration of the ILO RegionalOfficefortheArabStates.Wewouldlike,here,toexpressourthanksandappreciationforalltheirprograms that helped the Committee to raise awareness and engage all concerned parties such as the media which helped in communicating with the various segments of society, especially in raising their awareness on the risks and dangers of this phenomenon, those that affect the very existence of children’s lives.

AmongtheMinistry’sconcreteachievementsdemonstratingthattheprojectisnotjustinkonpaper,andthat decrees are not mere theoretical texts, the Ministry of Labour took the initiative of holding regular and systematicmeetings for theNational SteeringCommitteeAgainstChildLabour, andprovided aplatform for working children in the ministry, where children and youth can come, on their own and by their own initiative, accompanied by whoever is adopting their case and witnessing the cruelty of their work,toexpresstheiragony,painandsorrowinaplacewheretheycanbeheard,andwherefactfindingcan be initiated by the labour inspection department in order to take appropriate measures and protect the child or youth from further exploitation or abuse.

These concrete achievements also include the establishment of an interactive website to raise awareness and report cases of exploitation. Thus, the ministry does not remain secluded from the child or the youth working in harsh conditions, violating regulations, and through this doesn’t drift away from its mission of preserving the dignity of the Lebanese regardless of their age.

In addition, the Ministry with the support of the International Labour Organization and in collaboration with the American University of Beirut, prepared an easy to use guide to be made available to allemployers, workers and citizens of all segments of the society, especially those who care for children and theirchildhoodyouth,justlikeafatherwhowatchesoverhischildren.Moreover,theMinistry,withtheNationalSteeringCommitteeAgainstChildLabourandincollaborationwiththeInternationalLabourOrganization, also developed a national awareness strategy to combat the worst forms of child labour in Lebanon. This strategy aims at gradually raising awareness over a period of 3 years in order to achieve the desired goal which complies with Lebanon’s international obligations; to eliminate the worst forms of child labour for children under the age of eighteen in Lebanon.

This national plan entitled “Elimination of theWorst Forms of Child Labour in Lebanon by year2016”wasadoptedbytheNationalSteeringCommitteeAgainstChildLabourincollaborationwiththeInternational Labour Organization. This plan seeks to accomplish realistic and achievable goals provided thatallconcernedpartiesjoinefforts.

Salim Jreissati Minister of Labour Republic of Lebanon

Foreword by ILO

Combatting child labour has been at the core of the International Labour Organization’s mandate since its inception.

In 1919, the ILO pioneered the Minimum Age Convention (No. 5) which, alongside subsequent international standards, has defined and shaped our collective understanding of children’s appropriate place in the world of work.

Withtheseinternationalnormsfirmlyinplace,theILOmovedintotechnical cooperation to assist states in achieving their standards.

Since 1992, the ILO’s International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour has taken action against the suffering of children across the world alongside governments, workers and employers.

Buttheworldstillcounts168millionchildlabourers,someasyoungas5yearsold,morethan85millionof whom face harsh conditions and the prospect of a stolen future.

What’smore,childlabourinitsworstforms–suchashazardouswork,prostitution,debtbondage,andillicitactivitiesthatharmthehealth,safetyandmoralsof children–causesirreparabledamagetothesocial fabric as well as to individual children and their families.

Wealsoknowwhatchildlabourleadstowhenchildrenbecomeadults:alifetimeof lowearnings,socialexclusion and unrealized potential.

In2000,LebanonpartneredwiththeILOtojoinintheglobalbattleagainstthisscourge.

Sincethen,Lebanonhasratifiedcoreinternationalconventions,enactedpro-childlegislation,conductedassessments and launched national strategies.

Lebanese law now protects children from the worst forms of child labour and policymakers have recognizedthefightagainstchildlabourasanationalpriority.

Moreimportantly,thousandsof at-riskandworkingchildrenhavereceiveddirectassistancetobreakthecycle of working poverty.

TheNationalActionPlantoEliminatetheWorstFormsof ChildLabourinLebanonby2016seekstoput Lebanon’s international commitments into practice on a national scale by reaching out to everyone whohasastakeinafairersociety:workers,employers,andlocalcommunities.

Most critically, it puts in place a process through which Lebanon’s most vulnerable have a chance at reclaiming their right to be children.

Nada al-Nashif AssistantDirector-General andRegionalDirectorfortheArabStates International Labour Organization

7

Contents

Foreword by President of the Republic 3

Foreword by Ministry of Labour 5

Foreword by International Labour Organization 7

Abbreviations 9

Executive summary 10 Context 10 Problem and Response 11 Implementation 13

1. Introduction 14 1.1 Child labour in Lebanon 14 1.2 Worstformsof childlabourinLebanon 15 1.3 National efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour 16 1.4 National efforts to alleviate poverty in Lebanon 20 1.5 FromtheNationalStrategyin2005totheNAPin2012 22 1.6 Preparationof theNAP 23

2. Goal and principles 24 2.1 Goalof theNAP 24 2.2 Principlesof theNAP 24

3. Enabling factors in society 25 3.1 Socialnorms 25 3.2 Accesstoeducationandqualityof education 25 3.3 Accesstosocialservicesandqualityof services 25 3.4 Cultural practices 26 3.5 Roleof volunteering 26 3.6 Role of community leaders 26

4. Strategic interventions to eliminate the worst forms of child labour 27 4.1 Legislation and Law Enforcement 27 4.2 Freeandcompulsoryeducation 28 4.3 Integration into the educational system 29 4.4 Economic opportunities for parents and youth of working age 30 4.5 Capacitybuildinganddevelopment 31 4.6 Development services centres 32 4.7 Local authorities 33 4.8 Local community and community leaders 34 4.9 Prevention 36 4.10 Withdrawal 37 4.11 Rehabilitation 38

5. Monitoring and evaluation 40

6. Costing and funding of the NAP 41

Annex 1 43

8

Abbreviations

CLU Child Labour Unit

CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child

CSO Civil Society Organization

CSR Corporate Social Responsibility

ILO International Labour Organisation

IPEC International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour

MEHE Ministry of Education and Higher Education

MOA Ministryof Agriculture

MOFA Ministryof ForeignAffairs

MOI Ministry of Information

MOIM Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

MOJ Ministry of Justice

MOL Ministry of Labour

MOPH Ministry of Public Health

MOSA Ministryof SocialAffairs

NEA NationalEmploymentAgency

NSC National Steering Committee against Child Labour

NSSF NationalSocialSecurityFund

CAS CentralAdministrationof Statistics

CSOs Civil Society Organizations

SCREAM SupportChildren’sRightsthroughEducation,ArtsandtheMedia

UN United Nations Organization

UNCRC United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

UNESCO UnitedNationsEducational,ScientificandCulturalOrganization

UNICEF UnitedNationsChildren’sFund

WFCL WorstFormsof ChildLabour

9

Executive summary

Context

International commitmentTheworstformsof child labour,asdefinedbytheWorstFormsof ChildLabourConvention,1999(No.182),of theILOareconsideredasgrossviolationsof childrightsandaflagrantbreachof theinherent dignity of thehumanbeing.With the continuing support of the ILO and its InternationalProgrammeontheEliminationof ChildLabour(IPEC),thememberStatesof theILOreconfirmedtheir commitment at The Hague Global Child Labour Conference held in 2010 to eliminate the worst formsof child labourby 2016.More than500delegates from97 countries,whoparticipated in theHague Conference, agreed on a Roadmap aimed at «substantially increasing» global efforts to eliminate theworstformsof childlabourby2016.TheRoadmapaffirmsalsothatchildlabourisanimpedimentto achieving the Millennium Development Goals and that eliminating child labour yields high social and economic returns and contributes to households breaking out of the cycle of poverty. This commitment was strongly inspired and backed up by the principles and provisions of the ILO Convention No. 138 ontheminimumageof employment,theConventionontheRightsof theChild(CRC)andthe2000PalermoProtocolonhumantrafficking.

Commitment of the Government of LebanonTheGovernmentof LebanonratifiedtheCRCin1991,andhasbeenreportingtotheCommitteeontheRightsof theChildsincethattime.Article32of theCRCwhichreferstochildlabourhasalwaysbeen at the heart of the CRC reports that Lebanon has been submitting. In addition, the Government of Lebanonhascommitteditself officiallyandinparticulartocombatchild labour inLebanonsincethe year 2000. This commitment materialized through a number of memoranda of understanding that have been signed since 2000 between the ILO and the Government of Lebanon, represented by the Ministryof Labour.Asaresultof thatcollaboration,theGovernmenthasbeentakingmeasurestowardscombatingchildlabourinLebanon,especiallytheworstformsof childlabour.Significantmeasurestakenby the Government of Lebanon are represented by the preparation of a National Policy and Programme Framework, referred toas theNationalStrategyagainst child labour in2004, theestablishmentof aChildLabourUnitattheMinistryof LabourandaNationalSteeringCommitteeAgainstChildLabourin 2001, in addition to initiating a database on child labour at the Child Labour Unit. The National SteeringCommitteewasstrengthenedthroughanotherdecreein2005,andthenamendedbyDecreeNo.5137in2010makingitaHigherCommitteebytheCouncilof Ministers.AnothermeasuretakenbytheGovernmentof Lebanonwastheadoptionof DecreeNo.8987inthe2012,relatedtothedefinitionof the worst forms of child labour in Lebanon. In the same year, the Government prepared, in close cooperationwithandsupportfromtheILO,thisNationalActionPlan(NAP)toEliminatetheWorstFormsof ChildLabourinLebanon.

Preparation of the National Action Plan (NAP)Thepreparationof theNAPstartedonthedirectiveof theLebaneseMinisterof Labour,Presidentof theNationalSteeringCommitteeAgainstChildLabour.Theprocesswasdrivenbystrongcommitmentfrom the members of the National Steering Committee, including workers’ associations, represented by theGeneralConfederation of LebaneseWorkers; and employers, represented by theAssociationof LebaneseIndustrialists.Inaddition,severalofficialsfromministriesandcivilsocietyorganizationsparticipatedinthepreparationandvalidationof theNAP,enrichingthedebateandcontributingtotheadoption of a more realistic approach. The views of working children and their parents were also taken intoaccountduringthepreparationof theNAP.

10

Problem and resPonse

Magnitude of the problemExact numbers of children working in the worst forms of labour do not exist in Lebanon. However, a number of studies have been conducted which show that the problem is increasing due to several factors, includingthelackof appropriateresponsemechanismsinthecountry,andespeciallythelackof adequateprevention programmes. In addition, poverty contributes to the seriousness of the child labour problem ingeneral.AccordingtotheUnitedNationsDevelopmentProgramme(UNDP)NationalDevelopmentReport for Lebanon (2008–2009), poverty is a serious problem in Lebanon, with almost 300,000individualsunabletomeettheirfoodandnon-foodbasicneeds.Thenumberof peoplelivingbelowthepovertylinehasincreasedinthepastdecade.AccordingtotheLebanonMillenniumDevelopmentGoalReport2008,28.5percentof thepopulationislivingbelowtheupperpovertyline(withanestimatedincomebelow$4percapitaperday),and8percentof themareextremelypoorandlivebelowthelowerpovertyline(withanestimatedincomebelow$2.4percapitaperday),andcannotmeettheirbasicneeds.A large number of children are found to work in sectors and occupations such as auto repair (eg.mechanicalwork,carpaintingetc.),construction,metalworkingincludingaluminiumandforgediron,and sanitary installations. In general, child workers are mainly employed in industrial sites and places that lackadequateinfrastructureandtheyworkwithobsoletetechnologyandunsafemachineryandtools.Mostof theseenterprisesuseinflammable,explosive,harmfulorhazardousmaterialsandsubstances.Withintheseenvironmentsthereisalowlevelof awarenessof thehealthandsafetyconsiderationsthatshould govern basic working conditions.

Children work in such establishments for long hours and at low rates of pay in jobs that are notsuitable for their physical and mental development or skill levels. Most of these workplaces are not legally registered or covered by formal regulation or inspection. Poor sanitary conditions and dangerous machinerycontributetothehazardsfacedbychildrenatwork.Therearealsoindustry-specifichazardsintheformof exposuretotoxicmaterialsandby-products.

Inaddition,therearemanychildrenworking intheagriculturalsector inAkkar,HermelandBaalbekdistricts. In most families, every child has to pitch in and work along with his or her family, especially during harvesting and when preparing the ground for planting, because every small amount saved on hired hands is more income for the family. Dangers arise from use of plant pesticides and fertilizers that contain elevated levels of toxic chemicals, with possible risk to children’s health. Moreover, often nosafetyprecautionsaretaken,suchasuseof protectivemasks,glovesandhats.Agriculturalworkisseasonal and can result in long absenteeism from school, affecting children’s academic achievements and possibly leading to them falling behind their peers academically and eventually dropping out of school.

However,theNationalSteeringCommitteeAgainstChildLabourwillbeusingmorerecentdata,figuresand information to be provided by a national survey on child labour to be implemented in 2013/2014 bytheCentralAdministrationof StatisticsincollaborationwiththeMinistryof LabourandtheILOinordertomonitor,followupandevaluatetheNAP.

11

Principles and approaches of the National Action Plan (NAP)InlinewiththeILODraftGuideforPreparingNationalChildLabourPoliciesandPlansof Action;theformulationof thisNAPhasbeenguidedbyasetof overarchingprinciples,whichhavebeendrawnfrom:• the country’s fundamental statements as part of theConstitution, national legislation, long-termvisionstatement,medium-termdevelopmentplansandNationalChildDevelopmentPolicy;• theinternational instruments, includingtheILOMinimumAgeConvention,1973(No.138),andConvention No. 182 and respective Recommendations, international human rights covenants, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and regional agreements to which the country.

Inthiscontext,thisNAPhasbeenbasedonthegeneralprinciplesof childrights,adoptedbytheUnitedNationsCommitteeontheRightsof theChild,inparticularArticles2,3,6and12of theCRC,whichwasadoptedbytheGeneralAssemblyof theUnitedNationsin1989.Thefourgeneralprinciplesof theConventionare:• non-discrimination;• best interests of the child;• survival and development; and• participation.

Inadditiontotherights-basedapproach,theNAPadoptsaresults-basedapproach,of whichallobjectivesarespecific,measureable,achievable,realisticandtime-bound.Thestrategicinterventionsof theNAPgobeyond theeliminationof theworst formsof child labour toensuring thewell-beingof rescuedchildren through appropriate rehabilitation and reintegration programmes on one hand, and through the establishment of a prevention system on the other hand.

Wide Consultation Process Extensive consultations for information, opinions and validation took place with a wide variety of Stakeholderswhoarecrucialtotheprocessof draftingtheNAPaswellasforsuccessinitsimplementation.Theseincludedbutwerenotlimitedtothefollowing;AdvisorforSocialandHumanRightsAffairstothePresidentof theRepublic,FocalPointforSocialPoliciesatCouncilof Ministers,LegalAdvisortoMinisterof SocialAffairs,GeneralDirectorof Ministryof EducationinadditiontoMinisterof LabourandHead of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists andGeneral Confederation of LebaneseWorkersandothermembersof NationalSteeringCommitteesuchasrepresentativesof Ministriesof Justice,InteriorandMunicipalities,AgricultureinadditiontothosementionedaboveaswellasNGO’sandUNICEFandUNESCO.

Strategic interventionsTheNAPrevolvesaroundelevenstrategicareas,whichtogether,whenimplementedfully,canleadtotheeliminationof theworstformsof childlabourinLebanonby2016.Thestrategicareasare:1. Legislation and law enforcement;2. Freeandcompulsoryeducation;3. Integration in the educational system;4. Economic opportunities for parents and youth of working age;5. Capacitybuildinganddevelopment;6. Development services centres;7. Local authorities;8. Local community and community leaders;9. Prevention;10. Withdrawal;and11. Rehabilitation.

12

ImPlementatIon

Costing and fundingTheNAPhasbeenpreparedinaverypracticalandrealisticway.Thecosthasbeenestimatedinthesamewaybycalculatingeachactivityseparately.Potentialsourcesof fundingfortheNAPareasfollows:• contribution of the Government of Lebanon;• ILO contribution;• contribution of donor countries;• contribution of Lebanese commercial companies and the international commercial companies working in Lebanon, based on their corporate social responsibility policy.

Theestimatedtotalcostfortheimplementationof theNAPisUSD23,735,000,overandbeyondtheresources already in place and/or mobilized by Lebanese institutions and society . Monitoring and evaluationMonitoring, evaluation and impact assessment are three essential principles for ensuring the success of theNAP.ThemonitoringprocessfortheNAPentailsthecontinuingandsystematicgatheringandanalysis of all information related to its implementation. The evaluation is essential for assessing the effectiveness and appropriateness of the implementation process and formulating recommendations for itsimprovement,asneeded.TheNAPalsoreliesonanimpactassessmentmechanism,whereresultsaremeasured according to the real and positive change in the lives of children who have been withdrawn from the worst forms of child labour, or in the lives of working children in general.

Basedontheabove,theNAPcontainsintheattachedLogicalFrameworkmeasurableindicatorsforeachExpected Outcome corresponding to the results obtained for each of the eleven strategic areas covered bytheNAP.

TheNationalSteeringCommitteeAgainstChildLabour,incoordinationwiththeChildLabourUnitatthe Ministry of Labour, will be using these indicators to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the NAP.

Political commitmentThe Government of Lebanon, represented mainly by the Ministry of Labour, is committed to the eliminationof theworstformsof childlabour,inachildrights-basedprogrammaticapproach.Thesamecommitment is explicitly expressed by the workers’ associations and employers, in addition to NGOs workinginthefieldof childrights.

The adoption of theNAP by the Council of Ministers and its launch from the Presidential Palaceundoubtedly constitute clear proof of the firm commitment of the Government of Lebanon toeliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016.

13

1. Introduction

1.1 ChIld labour In lebanon

Article32of theUnitedNationsConventionontheRightsof theChild(adoptedbytheUNGeneralAssemblyin1989)states“StatesPartiesrecognizetherightof thechildtobeprotectedfromeconomicexploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development». It is noteworthy that the Lebanese legislation recognizes a child as a human being below the age of 18 years,whichisinlinewiththefirstArticleof theConventionontheRightsof theChild.

Thequestionnaireof theMultipleIndicatorClusterSurveythatwasimplementedinLebanonin2009askedanumberof questionsrelatingtochildlabour,mainlytoworkingchildrenaged5–14years.Theresults of the survey showed that the proportion of working children in that age group was 1.9 per cent (2.7percentforboysand0.9percentforgirls).Thispercentagewasgreateramongchildrenaged12–14years(2.8percent)thanamongchildrenaged5–11years(1.4percent).

The results also showed differences between regions, with North Lebanon having the highest per centage of working children (3.5per cent inAkkar,Minye andDhanniyedistricts, and3.7per cent inotherdistrictsinthenorth).ThefigurefortheGovernorateof SouthLebanonwasalso3.7percent.Asforthe enrolment of these children in school, 1.4 per cent of enrolled children were involved in child labour while27.9percentof non-enrolledwereworkingchildren.

Theproportionof workingchildrenwasfoundtobeinfluencedbytheeducationallevelof theirmothers.Theproportionof childlabourincreasedastheeducationallevelof themotherdecreased,reaching3.5per cent for illiterate mothers, compared to 0.4 per cent for mothers holding a university degree.

WhiletheInternationalLabourOrganization(ILO)MinimumAgeConvention,1973(No.138),advocatestheprogressiveeliminationof childlabour,theWorstFormsof ChildLabourConvention,1999(No.182),referstotheimmediateeliminationof theworstformsof childlabour.Lebanonhasratifiedbothconventions; the former in 2003 and the latter in 2001 .

Althoughreliablestatisticsonchildlabourarenotavailable,therearereportsthatLebanonmayhaveoneof the highest proportions of working children aged 10 to 17 in the world, with over 100,000 children inthecountrywhoarevictimsof childlabourandtrafficking.WorkingchildrenareconcentratedintheNorth of Lebanon and Mount Lebanon. The literature suggests that children from neighbouring countries such as Syrian refugee children, Palestinian children, migrant children, street children and children from low-incomefamiliesareparticularlyvulnerabletoexploitativelabourpractices.Ina2009assessmentof camps in South Lebanon, Palestinian children were found to be exposed to exploitative employers, very poor wages, lack of training and physically inappropriate demand, and higher risk of physical punishment andsexualabuse.Anumberof studieshavebeenconductedwhichshowthattheproblemisincreasing,especiallyasthecountrylacksappropriateresponsemechanismsand,particularly,adequatepreventionprogrammes. Poverty is also contributing to the seriousness of the child labour problem. The United NationsDevelopmentProgramme(UNDP)NationalDevelopmentReportforLebanon(2008–2009)identifiespovertyasaseriousprobleminLebanon,withalmost300,000individualsinLebanonunabletomeettheirfoodandnon-foodbasicneeds.Thenumberof peoplelivingbelowthepovertylinehasincreasedinthepastdecade.AccordingtotheLebanonMillenniumDevelopmentGoalReport2008,28.5percentof thepopulationislivingbelowtheupperpovertyline(estimatedat$4percapitaperday),and 8 per cent of them are extremely poor and live below the lower poverty line, estimated at $2.4 per capita per day, and cannot meet their basic needs.

14

Theproblemof child labourhasprobablybeenaggravatedrecently inLebanonduetothe influxof Syrian refugees into the country to escape the hostilities in their home country.

1.2 Worst forms of ChIld labour In lebanon

TherearenospecificdataforLebanononchildrenintheworstformsof childlabour.Forthatreason,theNationalSteeringCommitteeagainstChildLabourwillbeusingdata,figuresandinformationthatwillbeprovidedbyanationalsurveytobeimplementedin2013bytheCentralAdministrationof Statisticsincollaboration with the Ministry of Labour and the ILO in order to monitor, follow up and evaluate the NationalActionPlan(NAP)toEliminatetheWorstFormsof ChildLabourinLebanon.

AstudyconductedbytheMinistryof LabourandtheAmericanUniversityof Beirutwiththesupportof the ILO developed a list of the most hazardous types of work. This list was formally adopted by the LebaneseCouncilof Ministerson29September2012,inaDecreeNo.8987,titledtheWorstFormsof ChildLabour.Itincludessuchjobsectorsasautomechanics,carpentry,weldingandfillingcylinderswithgas. The study also cited child labour in the streets as the most dangerous work. The Minister of Labour in Lebanon considers child labour in the streets as a growing and tragic problem that not only affects childrenbutalsoconstitutesasecurityproblem.Thisalsoappliestoalljobsthathavebeenconsideredasworst forms of child labour.

Alargenumberof childrenworkinthefollowingsectors:autorepair(eg.Mechanicalwork,carpainting),construction and metalworking including aluminium and forged iron and sanitary installations. Child workers aremainly employed in industrial sites that lack adequate infrastructure and theyworkwithobsolete technology and unsafe machinery and tools. Most of these enterprises use inflammable,explosive,harmfulorhazardousmaterialsandsubstances.Withintheseenvironmentsthereisalowlevelof awareness of the health and safety considerations that should govern basic working conditions.

Children work in such establishments for long hours and at low rates of pay in jobs that are notsuitable for their physical and mental development or skill levels. Most of these workplaces are not legally registered or covered by formal regulation or inspection. Poor sanitary conditions and dangerous machinerycontributetothehazardsfacedbychildrenatwork.Therearealsoindustry-specifichazardsintheformof exposuretotoxicmaterialsandby-products.

Inaddition,therearemanychildrenworkingintheagriculturalsectorinAkkar,HermelandBaalbekdistricts. In most families, every child has to pitch in and work along with their family, especially during harvesting and preparing the ground for planting, because every small amount saved on hired hands is more income for the family. Dangers arise from use of plant pesticides and fertilizers that contain elevated levels of toxic chemicals, with possible risk to children’s health. Moreover, no safety measures aretaken,suchasuseof protectivemasks,glovesandhats.Agriculturalworkisseasonalandcanresultinlong absenteeism from school, affecting children’s academic achievements and possibly leading to them falling behind their peers academically and eventually dropping out of school.

15

1.3 natIonal efforts to elImInate the Worst forms of ChIld labour

Anumberof national stakeholdershave contributed to the eliminationof theworst formsof childlabour.

Ministry of LabourThe efforts to combat the worst forms of child labour are mainly undertaken by the Child Labour Unit at the Ministry of Labour, which has achieved many successes since its establishment in 2001. The most important contribution was to review the legislative framework to identify the gaps in relation to the international labour Conventions, particularly Conventions No 182 and No. 138, and to introduce a comprehensive Labour Law to harmonize national legislation on working conditions and the legal age for work with these Conventions. In addition, a database was initiated on the problem of child labour.

TheChildLabourUnitalsocontributedinthepreparationof MinisterialDecreeNo.5173,issuedon10January2010,whichamendedDecreeNo.15959issuedbytheCouncilof Ministerson19December2005,regardingtheformationof aNationalSteeringCommitteeAgainstChildLabour.Accordingtothedecree,thetasksof theSteeringCommittee lie inthepreparation,follow-upandimplementationof programmes,plansandprojectsaimedateliminatingchildlabour,incoordinationandcooperationwith other Government Ministries, workers’ and employers’ organizations and civil society.. The Steering Committee includes representatives from theministries concernedwith child labour inLebanon (eg.Ministries of Interior andMunicipalities,Ministry of SocialAffairs,Ministry of Justice,Ministry of PublicHealth,Ministryof EducationandHigherEducation,andMinistryof Agriculture),aswellasrepresentativesof employers’andworkers’organizations,theNationalSocialSecurityFundandNationalEmploymentAgencye,civilsociety,andUnitedNationsagencies,suchastheILO,theUnitedNationsChildren’sFund(UNICEF)andtheUnitedNationsEducational,ScientificandCulturalOrganization(UNESCO).

TheChildLabourUnitattheMinistryof Labourhasworkedonthefollowingprojects:• The establishment of a recruitment, referral and rehabilitation centre for working children in Nabattiyeh through a cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (Directorateof TechnicalandVocationalEducation)andtheILORegionalOfficefortheArabStatesinBeirut.• A cooperationprogrammebetweennon-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the forumof associationsof SinelFilandNabaaoneliminatingtheworstformsof childlabourinordertoprovidehealth, educational, nutritional and social services for children.• Anareaactionplanfortheimplementationof ConventionNo.182ontheworstformsof childlabourinthedeprivedregionsof Tripoli(forexampleBabel-TibbaniandBabel-Raml)throughaspecializedcommittee(AlFayhaaUnionof Municipalitiesincoordinationwithandunderthesupervisionof theMayor of the Governorate of North Lebanon). This included the establishment of a child labourmonitoring system. • Increasingthecapabilitiesof employers(representedbytheAssociationof LebaneseIndustrialists)in the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.• Increasing the capacity of workers through a cooperation agreement with the General Confederation of LebaneseWorkersontheestablishmentof aspecializedunittocombatchildlabour,equippedwithtechnological and human resources, and the establishment of a central committee in the governorates, comprisingrepresentativesfromallthedistricts,responsibleforinspectionof firmsandcompaniestoensure they are not using child labour.

16

• AprojectwiththeMinistryof InteriorandMunicipalitiestostrengthenthecapacityof theministryto eliminate the work of children on the streets through the establishment of a specialized unit at the ministry,andtrainingofficersintheInternalSecurityForcesonhowtoidentifythestreetchildrenreferthem to the concerned authorities, in addition to establishing a committee in each governorate under the supervision of the respective governors and in coordination with the Ministry of Labour and IPEC.

It isnoteworthythattheissuanceof DecreeNo.8987in2012,relatedtothedefinitionof theworstforms of child labour in Lebanon is clear evidence of the eagerness of the Lebanese Government, theGeneral Confederation of LebaneseWorkers (representing theworkers) and theAssociation of LebaneseIndustrialists(representingtheemployers),aswellascivilsociety,tocombatandeliminatetheworstformsof childlabour,whichrepresentasignificantviolationof childrightsandhumanrights,inaddition to the associated security, economic and social risks.

Ministry of Social AffairsTheMinistryof SocialAffairshasplayedamajorrole inthepreventionof child labourandthishasbeen through several means. Of the most prominent has been the role of the Development Services Centresof theMinistryof SocialAffairsof whichthenumbersof socialworkersworkingwithinthemhave not only been increased in numbers but also well trained. They have been capacitated to better understand international conventions related to child rights and child labour in addition to learning about the best means for intervention with working children.he Development Services centres have alsobeenempoweredtobebetterequippedwiththenecessaryandspecializedsocialservicesforatriskandworkingchildren.Theseservicesincludethefollowing:i)acceleratedvocationaltrainingii)literacyandacademicsupportprogrammesiii)schoolfinancialsupportprogrammesinadditiontoiv)economicsupport programmes for marginalized families and children

TheMinistryof SocialAffairsanditsHigherCouncilforChildhoodhasdevelopedadraftstrategyfordealing with issue of street children in 2010 in a participatory approach with other relevant stakeholders. However, it still needs further practical steps for implementation.

The issue of working street children has been amajor concern forMinistry of Social Affairs withchallenging experiences in this regards. The Ministry had initiated several efforts to withdraw children from the streets based on the principle of best interest of the child along with the Ministries of Interior and Municipalities and that of Labour and tried to refer them to appropriate services. However, further collaborativeeffortsarerequiredinthisregardswithrelevantnationalpartnersespeciallywithMinistriesof Justice, of Education and relevant NGO’s in addition to the Ministries of Interior and Municipalities andLabourandthealreadyexistingDevelopmentServicesCentresof theMinistryof SocialAffairs.

Ministry of Education and Higher EducationTheeffortsof theMinistryof EducationandHigherEducationarebasedonArticle1of LawNo.150of 17August2011,whichmodifiedArticle49of LegislativeDecreeNo.134of 6thDecember1959.Themodificationstatedthat:“Educationiscompulsoryintheprimaryeducationstage,andisavailablefor free at public schools, and a right to every Lebanese of school age that will be determined through a decree issued by the Council of Ministers detailing the conditions and the organization of this free education.”

17

The Ministry of Education and Higher Education is currently preparing a draft of a decree to determine andregulatetheconditionsof freeandcompulsoryeducationtoanextentbeyondthatdefinedinDecreeNo.10227of 8May1997anditssubsequent,supplementaryandamendedregulations.Throughthedraftdecree, free and compulsory education would cover all the period of basic education. Primary education must provide educational services and support services during the school year starting from grade 1 until grade 9, with the condition that the child’s age in the last class of primary school does not exceed 18 years, or 21 in the cases provided for in Law No. 220/2000 targeting persons with disabilities.

The draft decree stipulates that every child in Lebanon, including children whose nationalities or identity documentsareunderconsiderationisobligedtobeenrolledinschool.Thisisfromthefirstdayof theschool year in which they reach the age of 6 until the end of the school year in which they reach the ageof 16,whentheyobtaintheofficialcertificateof basiceducation.Parentsshouldtakethenecessarymeasures and procedures for registration and should ensure constant attendance of their children in school.

The draft decree also includes a provision to form a committee with members from the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the Educational Centre for Research and Development and the Ministry of Public Health with a role to develop the programmes and procedures necessary to ensure proper education for all childrenwho are receiving long-termor permanent treatments that preventthem, due to health problems, from going to school on a regular basis.

In order to ensure adherence to the conditions for compulsory education, the draft decree will also specify that the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities and the Educational Centre for Research and Development shall submit to the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, during the month of Julyeachyear,alistof childrenwhohavereachedtheageof 6andarethereforesubjecttocompulsoryeducation, in addition to their parents’ addresses, in order to verify their school enrolment.

A social committee is to be organized in every governorate, headed by a governor and comprisingrepresentativesof theMinistryof EducationandHigherEducation,theMinistryof SocialAffairs,theMinistry of Public Health, the municipalities and civil society associations, to oversee the proper application of free and compulsory education. The committee may take the necessary measures to overcome any obstacles to that aim. The social committee follows up any social issues concerning students who drop outof school.Theyoffersocialassistancebyvisitingthechild’sfamilytofindoutthereasonsforhisorher absence from school and to remind the parents of the need to keep encouraging their children to go toschool,underpenaltyof referringthesituationtothecourtsinaccordancewithproceduresspecifiedby the draft decree.

Thedraftdecreealsoensuresthat theeducationalcurriculumfulfils therequirementsof peoplewithdisabilities,includingtheirparticipationintheofficialexams.

Regarding provision of educational support for child students, the General Directorate for Education of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, in collaboration with the Educational Centre for Research and Development, shall prepare intensive educational programmes, especially for the firstclassesof basiceducation,targetingstudentsatriskof schooldrop-out.Thisistoensuretheyfollowuptheir studies and succeed in their exams. This provision also targets students who drop out of education toensurethattheyre-jointheeducationalsystem,andaimsatenrollingchildrenwhohaveneverattendedschool within the formal educational system. This would then be followed up on, in collaboration with theMinistryof SocialAffairs,byconductingadiagnostictesttodeterminethechild’sabilityinliteracyandnumeracy or other capabilities, in order to determine the level of formal education appropriate for the childduringreintegrationintotheeducationalsystemandtoequiphimorherwithspecialprogrammessuited to their ability and age group.

18

The General Directorate of Education also provides support for regular students who suffer from learning disabilities. This is mainly through holding courses outside normal school time and during weekends and holidays in order to raise the standards of those children in areas where they are weak, thus ensuring their continued enrolment in regular classes and completion of their formal education.

General Confederation of Lebanese WorkersTheGeneralConfederationof LebaneseWorkersisoneof themainpartners,alongwiththeMinistryof Labour,aimingtocombatandeliminatetheworstformsof childlabourinLebanon.Accordingly,theConfederationhasformedacentralunitandsub-unitsinthegovernoratesanddistrictsinallpartsof Lebanontocombatchildlabour,with450volunteersmobilizedsofar.Inaddition,theConfederationhasissuedbrochuresandpostersandcarriedout33awareness-raisingsessionsforparents.Meetingswerealso held with the heads of the parliamentary committees concerned with education and with human rights,includingchildrights.TheGeneralConfederationof LebaneseWorkershasalsohelpedchildrenby providing them with stationery and schoolbooks, especially in the Governorate of the South, in coordinationwithNoorHealthandtheSocialCareAssociation.

IncooperationwiththeGeneralConfederationof LebaneseWorkers,themunicipalitiesandunionsof municipalitieshave-• Funded a children’s movement or lobbying amongst Parliamentarians to enact the compulsoryeducation law; • Contributed to the issuance of the law exempting students from school fees in formal schools; Implemented awareness programmes for students in many public and private schools in the Governorates of NorthLebanon,MountLebanonandBeirut;• Contributed in amending the occupational risks decree in relation to the worst forms of child labour leading to Decree 8987; and• Supported Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media (SCREAM project)developed in coordination with and supported by the ILO, including planning and implementation in the Governorate of North Lebanon.

Association of Lebanese IndustrialistsTheAssociationof LebaneseIndustrialistshasbeenworkingonraisingtheawarenessonthehazardsand dangers which could face children in different types of occupations since the year 2000 at the inception stageof IPEC inLebanon.Several guideshavebeendevelopedby theAssociation in thisregards and distributed to employers in the formal sector, especially the factories and industrial sites. However,theAssociationalsoproducedfurtherguideswhichattendtoworkof childrenintheinformalsectorwheremostchildrenarefoundworking inLebanon.Atpresent,effortsof theAssociationof Lebanese Industrialists are also improvising their efforts with the ILO in promoting the concept of CorporateSocialResponsibility in thefieldof child rights andchild labourespecially inencouragingdirectinterventionsbycorporations;financially,technicallyorthroughinkindcontributions.

19

1.4 natIonal efforts to allevIate Poverty In lebanon

Theproblemof povertyisacriticaltopicinLebanon.WhiletheinformationonpovertyinLebanonisstillnotsufficientlyaccurateinmostcases,ithasbeenestimatedthat8percentof thepopulationislivinginextremepoverty(withanaverageincomeof lessthan$2.4percapitaperday),while28.5percentlivebelowtheupperpovertyline(withanaverageincomeof lessthan$4percapitaperday).

The available studies indicate considerable variation in the geographical distribution of poverty, with the largest numbers of poor and marginalized people concentrated in some areas that have been historically associatedwithhighratesof povertyanddeprivation,includingHermel,BaalbekandAkkar.Thereisalso the growing phenomenon of urban poverty, especially in the big cities, including the suburbs of Beirut,TripoliandSidon.Negativeconsequencesof povertyincludehighschooldrop-outrates,childlabour, increasing drug abuse, domestic violence, crowding and deteriorating environmental conditions.

Ananalysisof Lebanesesocietyshowsaconcentrationof povertyinthefollowingcategories:• Largefamilies,whicharecharacterizedbyahighproportionof schooldrop-outsandchildlabour.The number of disadvantaged households exceeding sevenmembers in 2004 (the averageLebanesehouseholdcontains4.3members)wasestimatedat26,000,of which6,500weresufferingfromseveredeprivation.• Female-headedhouseholds,mostof whichareheadedbyolderwomen,oftenwidowedandlivingalone or within a family, having surpassed the age of work and without permanent resources for subsistence.Thenumberof verypoorhouseholdsheadedbywomenwasestimatedat3,500in2004.• Familieswithdisabledmembers.Previousstudieshaveshownthattherateof povertyamongpeoplewith disability is three times the poverty rate at the national level. Disabled people are considered a priority in the application of Law No. 220, including through the provision of free health care, supported by the issuance of disability cards; proactive efforts to provide opportunities for productive work for thosewithdisabilities;anddevelopmentof supportiveprogrammesof servicesandsocialbenefits.In2005,about55,000disabledpersonsheldcardsissuedbytheMinistryof SocialAffairs.• Elderlypeoplewhodonotlivewiththeirfamilies,workingchildren(andtheirfamilies)andfamiliesof prisoners.• Illiterateindividualsorthosewithloweducationallevels(includingasaresultof earlyschooldrop-out)andthosewhodonotreceivehealthandsocialcoverage,includingpregnantwomen,childrenandthe elderly.

Hence, in light of the decline in social indicators and the associated high expense of providing remedial measures,theGovernmentdecidedtodevelopacomprehensivesocialstrategyformingafirststepintheprocessof improvingthesocialindicators,especiallyforsocialproblemsrequiringmediumandlong-terminterventions. The Government is therefore beginning to take measures that will have a direct impact on themostvulnerablesegmentsof thepopulationandenablethemtocopewiththechronicconsequencesof the economic, social and natural crises they face, and provide them with opportunities to increase their income or gain employment, giving them greater security and ability to manage crises in the future. These measuresalsocontributetopromotingtheGovernment’sreformistagenda,andinclude(a)strengtheningtheexistingsocialsafetyfloors;(b)designingnewsocialsafetyfloors;and(c)reconsideringthecurrentallocation of resources in order to improve services.

For a more effective achievement of these aims, the Government needs to refer to the statisticalinformation that forms the backbone of any future planning. It has therefore put in place a statistical instructiveplanaimedatprovidingasteady,long-termstreamof statisticaldata.Thisschemewillbeafirststeptowardsimprovingthestatisticaldatabaseasawholeandthesocialdatabaseinparticular,andaims to embrace all aspects related to the production and distribution of statistical data.

20

Giventheneedforsocialsafetyfloorsandthe lackof relevant information, theeffortsof voluntaryinitiatives need to be acknowledged. Civil society organizations are working effectively to complement the actions of governmental institutions and help overcome the lack of planning and information, through relief work to improve social conditions in times of crisis and through activities and developmental projects in the subsequent periods. The effectiveness of this relationship betweenGovernment andcivil society has varied over time, producing integrated and cooperative actions at various stages, often supported by donors. hile on occasions the interventions seemed duplicable, and at other times have appeared uncoordinated and unrealistic.

The Government has also started implementation of the National Programme to Target the Poorest Families. It is acknowledged that there is an immediateneed to start assessmentof themechanismsapplied in current programmes and to evaluate their effectiveness, and use that information to improve the programmes and put in place new systems geared towards achieving the desired end results.

TheNational Programme to Target the Poorest Families aims at providing social assistance to thepoorestfamilies inLebanontohelpthemfacetheirdifficult livingconditions.This istobebasedontransparentcriteriathatdeterminetheeligibilityof thosefamiliestobenefitfromassistancewithinthelimits of public resources available for the purpose, taking into account that the resources provided might create overdependence on assistance and a disincentive to work. This programme gives every Lebanese familytherighttoaskforhelpfromtheGovernment,accordingtothefollowingprinciples:equality,justice,helpingfamiliesinneed,objectivityandtransparency.Asfortheproposedbasketof grantsanddonations to families, it contains a number of possible elements, including cash or material support, for example in the areas of health and education, as approved by the Council of Ministers on the basis of the suggestions of the concerned ministries.

TheNationalProgrammeisimplementedthroughthenetworkof DevelopmentServicesCentresaffiliatedtotheMinistryof SocialAffairs,whicharebeingequippedwiththeworkingstaff toperformtherequiredtasks.TheMinistryof SocialAffairswillthusbeabletoplayapivotalroleinlocaldevelopment,especiallythroughclosercollaborationwithNGOsandmunicipalities.Atthenationallevel,theimplementationof theprogrammerequirescooperationbetweenallconcernedministriesaspartof acomprehensiveefforttobenefitfromtherelatednationalplansandstrategies.

In this context, and in order to enhance the coherence and comprehensiveness of its economic and social approach,theGovernment,throughtheNationalProgrammetoTargetthePoorestFamilies,isstrivingto promote the development of local communities in order to reduce disparities between different parts of thecountry.Theseefforts include investment in jobcreation,withthe involvementof theprivatesector, with the aim of raising the living standard of the families in the targeted areas and helping them escapethesituationof povertyinwhichtheyareliving.Thiswillbeachievedthrough:• supporting local initiatives aimed at providing opportunities and proper infrastructure for marginalized and disadvantaged groups to access social and economic services, including educational, health and environmental services;• improvingtheeconomicsituationof low-incomefamiliesandgroupsbystimulatingproductivityandincreasing income, including through training in basic skills and developing the capacities of institutions and individuals to access resources that decrease the rate of unemployment and provide opportunities to increase income;• benefitingfromthelessonsandexperiencesarisingfromtheimplementationof theprojectinorderto develop, in coordinationwith the concernedministries, a long-termhuman development strategycontributing to the success of other development projects aimed at alleviating social and regionalinequalities.

21

1.5 from the natIonal strategy In 2005 to the naP In 2012

TheeffortstocombatchildlabourbeganofficiallyatthenationallevelinLebanonin2000,whentheLebaneseGovernment(representedbytheMinistryof Labour)signedthefirstcooperationagreementwith the ILO. There is no doubt that the National Strategy to Combat Child Labour, adopted by the LebaneseGovernment in2005,providedagoodbasis for reducingchild labourandraising the levelof awareness among thevariousprofessional segmentson theneed to combat child labour.But thestrategywas not accompaniedby significant tangible results in thefield as it could have if followedclosely.However,ithadsomesignificantimpactsonthenationalpolicylevelandtoalesserextentonthegrassrootlevels.Inlightof thiseffort,theSocialActionPlan(aNationalReformPlan),designedand submitted by the Government of Lebanon to the 2007 Paris III International Conference for the EconomicSupportof Lebanon,clearlydefinedchildlabourasanimportantcomponentforattentionandreform.ItevenidentifiedspecificareasforactionashighlightedinthepreviousNationalStrategyAgainstChildlabour.Allthiscombinedtomaketheissueof marginalizedchildren,andmorespecificallychildren working on the streets, a critical target for government intervention in the 2009 Ministerial Declaration which was echoed in pronouncements made by consecutive administrations. This came in additionto“providingqualityandaffordableeducationforall”,whichwasalsoreflectedintheSocialActionPlan.Asaconsequence,aNationalEducationStrategywascompletedin2010tothateffect.Thiswasfollowedin2011byaspecificstrategyforchildrenworkingorlivingonthestreets,producedbytheMinistryof SocialAffairs.

These are only some of the most important government efforts to tackle the issue of child labour. On anotherandequallyimportantlevel,attheGrassrootlevel,anEducationandChildlabourprojectwasintroduced and implemented over almost two consecutive years . However, the very tangible achievements didnotmovefarbeyondthosemadeduringtheimplementationof thefirstphaseof cooperationbetweenthe Lebanese Government and IPEC. In addition, the issue of the immediate elimination of the worst formsof childlabourwasnotinitiallygiventherequiredattention.Therefore,theNationalActionPlan(NAP)toEliminatetheWorstFormsof ChildLabourinLebanonwaspreparedinordertogivetheissue the priority it merited. Efforts made since 2000 have led to the mobilization of several initiatives, particularly by civil society organizations, which have contributed to encouraging economic stability and balancedgrowth,besidesimprovingtheprevailingfragilesecuritysituationinthecountrysince2005.

22

1.6 PreParatIon of the natIonal aCtIon Plan (naP)

Preparation of the National Action Plan commenced according to the directives of the LebaneseMinisterof Labour,Presidentof theNationalSteeringCommitteeagainstChildLabour.Fivedaysof nationalworkshopswereheldtodiscusstheNAP,attendedbythemembersof theNationalSteeringCommittee andotherofficials, includingofficials fromministries andcivil society associations ,whoenriched the debate and contributed to amore realistic approach to theNAP. It is noteworthy thatWorkers’associationsandEmployersarerepresentedandareactivemembersof theNSC.Meetingswerealso held with the working children themselves, and with their parents , who gave several reasons for the children’spresenceinthelabourmarket,including:• the poor economic conditions of the family;• lossof thejobof theparents,especiallythefather,thuscausingalackof incomeinthefamily;• inabilitytopayforschoolsuppliesandneeds(includingbooks,stationery,transportation);• the inability of the educational system to accommodate children who have learning disabilities;• lack of availability of school enrolment programmes that allow children who have dropped out to return to the educational system.

TheNAPischaracterizedbythefollowing:• active participation by members of the National Steering Committee against Child Labour and their consensusonalltheissuesandpointssuggestedintheNAP;• thevaluablecontributionof theGeneralConfederationof LebaneseWorkers,andof theAssociationof Lebanese Industrialists;• incorporation of the basic principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child;• adoptionof aresults-basedplanningapproachinthedesignof theNAP;• ensuring participation of decision-makers and influential officials by consulting them on theprovisionsof theNAP;and• active support by the ILO.

The preparation of the NAP is characterized also by a wide consultation process where extensiveconsultations for information, opinions and validation took place with a wide variety and levels of Social Partnerswhoarecrucialtotheprocessof draftingtheNAPaswellasforthesuccessinitsimplementation.Theseincludedbutwerenotlimitedtothefollowing;AdvisorforSocialandHumanRightsAffairstothePresidentof theRepublic,FocalPointforSocialPoliciesat Councilof Ministers,LegalAdvisortoMinister of SocialAffairs,GeneralDirector of Ministry of Education in addition toMinister of Labour andHeads of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists andGeneralConfederation of LebaneseWorkersandothermembersof NationalSteeringCommitteewhichincludesrepresentativesof Ministriesof Justice,Interior,AgricultureinadditiontothosementionedaboveaswellasNGO’sandUNICEFandUNESCO.

23

2. Goal and principles

2.1 goal of the naP

Theoverallobjectiveof theNationalActionPlan(NAP)istheeliminationof theworstformsof childlabour in Lebanon by the end of year 2016, in line with the global goal launched by the ILO with the commitmentof theinternationalcommunityandtheGlobalActionPlanof IPECfor2016.Undoubtedly,the efforts that are going to be made to eliminate the worst forms of child labour will inevitably lead to a greater awareness of the problem of child labour in general and to a decrease in the number of working children in Lebanon, consistent with the principles of ILO Conventions Nos. 138 and 182.

2.2 PrInCIPles of the naP

InlinewiththeILOGuideforPreparingNationalActionPlansonChildLabour(2012),theformulationof thisNAPhasbeenguidedbyasetof overarchingprinciples,whichhavebeendrawnfrom:• the country’s fundamental statements as part of theConstitution, national legislation, long-termvisionstatement,medium-termdevelopmentplansandNationalChildDevelopmentPolicy;• the international instruments towhich the country subscribes, including the ILOMinimumAgeConvention,1973(No.138),andConventionNo.182andrespectiveRecommendations,internationalhuman rights covenants, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and regional agreements to which the country is adheres to.

Inthiscontext,thisNAPhasbeenbasedonthegeneralprinciplesof childrights,inparticularArticles2, 3, 6 and 12, adopted by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, through the Conventionon theRightsof theChildwhichwas adoptedby theGeneralAssemblyof theUnitedNationsin1989.Thefourgeneralprinciplesof theConventionare:• Theprincipleof non-discrimination,inaccordancewithwhichthisNAPaimstowithdrawallchildrenfrom the worst forms of child labour in Lebanon, without any discrimination based on nationality, colour, religion or race or any other ground that may constitute a reason for discrimination.• The principle of the best interests of the child, so that all legal and social interventions will aim at achieving the child’s best interests and giving him or her a better life.• Theprincipleof therightof thechildtosurvivalanddevelopment,embodiedintheNAPthroughthe focus on prevention, withdrawal and rehabilitation.• The principle of the rights of the child to participate in all matters and issues and interventions affecting his or her interests, particularly in the area of eliminating the worst forms of child labour.MorespecificallyArticle32of theConventiondirectlyrelatestochildlabour.

24

3. Enabling factors in society

Themain factorwhich helped to develop thisNAP and could have potential significant impact onits implementation is the coordination amongst the main relevant stakeholders; this would take place especially through the National Steering Committee in addition to any other regional or municipal platformsforchildprotectioningeneralorchildlabourinspecificwhichprovidespaceandmechanismsfor coordination.

Moreover,thisNAPhasreceivedconsiderableinterestfromtheCouncilof MinistersaswellasfromthePresidentof theRepublicwhichrepresentsignificantpoliticalaswellasexecutiveformof commitment.ThisisinadditiontotheILOTri-Partiteconstituents’interestandinvolvementletaloneotherconcernedministries and NGO’s. However, in addition to this broad alliance of national stakeholders, there are otherimportantenablingfactorsinLebanesesocietywhichcouldplayapivotalroleinthisNAP.

3.1 soCIal norms

Lebanese society is characterized by the support provided by parents to their children and the efforts made tokeepthemprotected.Familiesmaintainfamilybonds,enforcingtherightof childrentobeprotectedand providing them with the best conditions for their proper growth and development, physically and mentally.

3.2 aCCess to eduCatIon and qualIty of eduCatIon

Lebanese society has always given attention to the educational and cultural aspects of community life, even before the formalization of education. This focus on education has resulted in a certain degree of openness to the outside world and has contributed to the cultural and religious diversity of Lebanese society.While schoolsare tobe foundnationwide,even insmallvillages, it shouldbenoted that theavailabilityof educationalservicesinallareasof Lebanondoesnotmeanthattheyenjoythesamequalityof education.

3.3 aCCess to soCIal servICes and qualIty of servICes

Recent statistics show that there are more than 6,000 NGOs in Lebanon providing all kinds of social services, including child protection, and helping to ensure the provision of rights and community participation.TheseassociationsplayedapositiveandactiveroleduringtheLebaneseCivilWar,especiallyin light of the Government’s reduced role during the war, and helped to provide protection for children, which in return enhanced the partnership with the public sector, despite the lack of coordination and planning between them on occasion.

The social services sector suffers from a serious shortage of resources to meet the basic needs of child welfare, and NGOs can play an important role covering part of this shortfall. Despite the continuous and appreciated efforts made by the civil society sector, there is sometimes an incompatibility of plans andprogrammeswiththemosturgentprioritiesandneeds,requiringanapproachthatinvolvesadequateplanning and practical solutions.

25

3.4 Cultural PraCtICes

There is no doubt that Lebanese society suffers from some cultural practices that are inconsistent with the principlesof childrightsandprotectionfromexploitation.Amongthesepracticesisthediscriminationthat may occur between males and females, which may lead in some cases to females dropping out of school and becoming engaged in the labour market, for example in domestic services, or embarking on early marriage, while boys are given priority in education and encouraged to remain at school.Anotherfactorfound insomeareas isapreferencefor increasingthenumberof childrenwithinthefamily in order to work in the agricultural sector and increase economic returns, which in turn increases therateof schooldrop-outsandchildlabour.

3.5 role of volunteerIng

Volunteeringisafeaturerootedinthehistoryandpsychologyof theLebanesecitizen,bothwithinthecommunity and the family. However, this activity has started to decline due to the lack of encouraging economic conditions and other incentives, which has led young people to neglect volunteering, despite the fundamentalroletheycouldplayinfillingthegapsandensuringtheneedsof thecommunity,includingthose of children.

3.6 role of CommunIty leaders

Lebanonisfortunateinhavingcommunityleaderswithrichexperienceinthefieldof childprotection,especially during times when adverse political factors can distract leaders from the values for which they work.Theexistenceof aNAPaimingateliminatingtheworstformsof childlabourcanbeconsideredaslocustpoint/callencouragingleaderstoplayanactiveandinfluentialroleinakeyissue.

26

4. Strategic interventions to eliminate the worst forms of child labour

4.1 legIslatIon and laW enforCement

Specific ObjectiveBy the endof 2015, allLebanese legislations are compatiblewith the internationalConventions andProtocols regarding child rights and ready to be implemented.

Expected OutcomeAllexistinglegislationconcerningchildlabourisreviewed,newlawsareformulatedandprepared,andmechanisms are established for their application, ensuring addition of a provision related to mandatory implementation.

Activities1. Issueregulatorydecreesforalllawsrelatedtochildrights,especiallyLawNo.150of 17August2011regardingArticle49oncompulsoryeducationintheprimarystage.2. Pass the draft law regarding themodification of theminimum age for employment and amendthe Labour Law in respect of the chapter targeting children, in addition to releasing its corresponding regulatory decrees.3. Issue amendments related to LawNo.422 regarding children in conflict with the Law, which iscurrently being studied by the Ministry of Justice.4. Workwith theMinistryof Justice to increase thepenalty foremployerswhousechild labourorparents who encourage their children to beg or work on the streets, especially for repeated offences.5. Compileinformationonacomputerdatabaseaboutchildrenworking,includingtohelpestablishadatabase on children found working and who have worked before. Such information gathering could be undertakenwiththecollaborationof theInternalSecurityForces.6. AmendArticle617of thePenalCode,whichstatesthatparentsorcaregiversof childrenbelowtheageof 15shallbepunishedbyimprisonmentfromonetosixmonthsandshallpayapenaltybetween20,000 and 100,000 Lebanese pounds if they had the capacity yet did not take action to ensure that their childrenwerenotlefthomeless.Thisrequiresmodifyingthisarticlesothatthespecifiedageis18ratherthan 15, the condition regarding parental lack of capacity is cancelled, and themaximumpenalty isincreasedfrom100,000to500,000Lebanesepounds.7. AmendArticle618of thePenalCode,whichstatesthatallthosewholetchildrenundertheageof18begforpersonalbenefitshallbepunishedbyimprisonmentfromsixmonthstotwoyearsandshallpayapenalty between 20,000 and 200,000 Lebanese pounds. There is a need to expand the circle of criminality sothatitincludeseveryonewhopushesanunderagechildintoajobthatislikelytolead,byitsnatureor the circumstances in which it is carried out, to adverse effects on the child’s health, safety or moral behaviour. In addition, the maximum penalty should be increased from 200,000 to 1 million Lebanese pounds.8. Undertake training sessions for judges and police officers on how to dealwith children and onunderstanding that children under 18 in theWorst Forms of Child Labour are victims in need of assistance, and that the exploiters should be punished. 9. Develop a law that requiresmunicipalities to give attention to the issueof combating theworstforms of child labour, and enforcement of its corresponding regulatory decree.

27

10. Organize advocacy campaigns to gain the support of the concerned parliamentary committees and raise their awareness on the need to amend the laws related to underage children, and raise community awarenessof child-relatedissuesthroughthepublicationof advertisementsinvisual,writtenandaudiomedia.11. Organize a committee including representatives of the concerned authorities to monitor and follow up the enforcement of laws relating to child labour in Lebanon.12. Engage children by taking their suggestions on how to modify and develop laws, taking into account their personal experiences.

4.2 free and ComPulsory eduCatIon

Specific ObjectiveBytheendof 2016,allchildrenof theageof primaryeducationbenefitfromtheirrighttohavefreeandcompulsory education as per the National Education Strategy developed in 2010.

Expected Outcome 1Bytheendof 2013,theregulatorydecreesforfreeandcompulsoryeducationareendorsed.

Activities for Expected Outcome 11. Ensure each ministry or administration issues the internal regulations applying the content of the regulatory decrees.2. Advocate for disseminating the importance of free and compulsory education in the Lebanesesociety.

Expected Outcome 2Bytheendof 2014,theschoolsupportprogrammeisbeingdesignedandsanctionedinaccordancewithlegalrequirements.

Activities for Expected Outcome 21. Identifythosecategoriesof action(suchasincreasingenrolmentof childreninschool,anddealingwith children who have recently dropped out or who have never attended school, or who have learning difficulties)thatwillbetargetedbytheprogramme.2. Design educational programme suited to each category.3. Orient and train the individuals concerned in implementing the programme.

Expected Outcome 3Bytheendof 2015,thequalityof theservicesprovidedbyschoolsimproved.

Activities for Expected Outcome 31. Trainteachersontheproblemof schooldrop-out,itscausesandhowtodealwithit.2. Train teachers on modern teaching methods.3. Promote the concept of extracurricular activities that encourage children to stay in the school system andreducetherateof schooldrop-out.

28

4.3 IntegratIon Into the eduCatIonal system

Specific ObjectiveBytheendof 2015,allchildrenwhoarewithdrawnfromtheworstformsof childlabourarereintegratedinto the educational system.

Expected Outcome 1Schoolingsupportisprovidedtoallchildreninneedbythemidof 2015.

Activities for Expected Outcome 11. Conductsurveysforselectedchildrenandschools (thosethatarefacinghighdrop-outorfailurerates)andconductstudieson thecurriculumand theadministrativeworkingprocesses; followupbyencouraging and implementing school and educational support programmes.2. TobenefitfromthesurveysconductedbytheMinistryof EducationandHigherEducationanddevelop them further.3. Provide suitable conditions and circumstances in schools for support of targeted children. 4. Train the educational personnel, social workers and specialists on the educational rights of working children and the technicalities of catch up programmes and reintegration into education. 5. Raiseawarenessof parents,employers,workers’associationsandthecommunityatlarge,andactivatethe role of parents’ councils through training programmes.6. Develop educational programmes devoted to all aspects of the child’s welfare.7. Provide incentives to encourage use of school support programmes.8. Workonstoppingviolence in schools, especially that theGovernmentof LebanonhasofficiallyadoptedaNationalStrategyonViolenceagainstChildren,preparedbytheHigherCouncilof Childhood-Ministryof SocialAffairs.

Expected Outcome 2Schoolreintegrationisprovidedforallchildrenwhohavedroppedoutof school,bytheendof 2015.

Activities for Expected Outcome 21. Conduct surveys and analysis on children who dropped out of school and analyse their distribution and causal factors for dropout.2. Conduct studies on the educational programme provided for the reintegration process and identify appropriate programmes, taking advantage of external experiences in order to create newly developed programmes. 3. Develop legislation for homeless children in order to bring them back into the education system. 4. Provide a suitable school environment.

29

Expected Outcome 3Acceleratedvocationaltrainingandformaleducationisprovidedforallinterestedchildrenbytheendof 2015.

Activities for Expected Outcome 31. Conduct a labour market survey.2. Conduct a survey of the number of students, programmes and professional trainings available on the market.3. Develop vocational curricula that match with the labour market.4. Raise awareness of the importance of vocational training and conduct studies about the needs of the market. 5. Developpartnershipsinordertoaccessthenecessaryexperiences.6. Raise the awareness of parents, employers and the community.7. Provide incentive activities and implement the vocational training programmes. 8. Provide Post Vocational Training Support as linkages to appropriate employers and financialinstitutions for loans and grants to establish small businesses.

4.4 eConomIC oPPortunItIes for Parents and youth of WorkIng age

Specific ObjectiveParents of children withdrawn from the worst forms of child labour and youth of working age obtain adequatejobsthatenablethemtoimprovetheireconomicandsocialconditions.

Expected OutcomeThe economic conditions of the families whose children have been withdrawn from the worst forms of child labour are improved.

Activities1. Conduct rapid assessment studies in areas with high proportions of child labour to identify the circumstances of parents whose children are withdrawn from the worst forms of child labour.2. Encourage institutions and concerned administrations to work on helping families of withdrawn children, according to their specializations and capacities, in such areas as accelerated vocational training, providingsuitablejobopportunities,providingsoftloansandtraininginthemanagementof small-scaleenterprises.3. Encouragemunicipalitiestoprovidejobswithinthemunicipalitiesanditsaffiliatedinstitutions,andin private institutions, for parents whose children are withdrawn, including through coordination with villagemayors, labourunions,developmentservicescentresandnon-profitorganizations.Grantsandexemptions can be provided by the municipality to ease the parents’ economic situation, for example by establishingaspecialfundtograntinterest-freeloans.4. DeveloprecruitmentofficesaffiliatedtotheNationalEmploymentAgency,especiallyintheworst-affectedsub-regions,inordertohelpparentsfindworkorprovideacceleratedvocationaltraining,forexampleinmanagingsmall-scaleenterprisesorinmarketing.5. EnableDevelopmentServicesCentresundertheMinistryof SocialAffairstoplayaroleinhelpingthe parents of vulnerable children by providing them with small loans and in giving substantive assistance to people with disabilities through the provision of relevant facilities.

30

4.5 CaPaCIty buIldIng and develoPment

Specific ObjectiveBytheendof 2015,societyisawareof,acceptsresponsibilityfor,andcontributestotheeliminationof the worst forms of child labour in Lebanon.

Expected Outcome 1Bytheendof 2013,studieshavebeenconductedanddocumentationcompiledfordeterminingtherolesof the actors involved in eliminating the worst forms of child labour.

Activities for Expected Outcome 11. Establish the roles and mandates of each of the concerned sectors.2. Conduct a survey on the number of working children and the sectors in which they are currently working.3. Considertheefficacyandcurrenteffectivenessof legislation,projectsandpreviouslyimplementedplans.

Expected Outcome 2Bytheendof 2014,approximately5,000individualshavebeentrainedfromthegovernmentalandnon-governmental sectors, private institutions and from civil society at large in 28 districts.1. Train mayors on their role in the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.2. Train 240 representatives and social workers of development services centres in all Lebanese regions on means of intervention with at risk and working children.3. Train200journalistsontheimportanceof theirroleinbringingtheissueof workingchildrentonational attention.4. Train 600 activists from civil society organizations on the protection of children from the worst forms of child labour and how to intervene and conduct advocacy programmes.5. Train56children(atleast2fromeachGovernorateeveryyear)overtheyearsof theplanwhowillconstitute a parliament of working children.6. Trainatleastonedelegatefromeachmunicipalityandrelevantsocialpartners(governmentalandnon-governmental)inLebanononcombatingchildlabour.7. Train500officialsfromtheInternalSecurityForcestoassistinwithdrawingchildrenfromtheworstforms of child labour.

31

Expected Outcome 3Bytheendof 2014,thecapacityof allstakeholdershasbeenbuiltinsocialsafetyfloors,networking,coordination and advocacy.

Activities for Expected Outcome 31. Formcommitteesinallmunicipalitiesthatwillbeconcernedwithactivatingtheissueof childlabour.2. Conductaseriesof trainingworkshopsonChildLabourandSocialSafetyfloors.3. Formsocialsafetyfloorsin28districtsof thesixgovernorates.4. Create a forum of working children from all regions and sectors.5. Organize“talkshow”meetingswiththemediatolaunchacampaignandfollowupduringtheearlystages.6. Train600activistsfromcivilsocietyonadvocacycampaignsandtechniques.7. Hold dialogue sessions with parliamentarians involved in the issue.8. CommunicatewiththeMinistryof ForeignAffairsandEmigrantsaboutinvitingdonorstocontributetothefinancingof theproposedprojectsinordertoobtaintheintendedresults.9. Prepare brochures, posters and training manuals on the issue.

4.6 develoPment servICes Centres

Specific ObjectiveBytheendof year2016,theworstformsof childlabourinthegeographicalareasof eachdevelopmentservices centres are being eliminated.

Expected Outcome 1Raise awareness of the staff in the Development Services Centres of the problem of child labour during 2013,andraiseawarenessof beneficiaryandnon-beneficiaryparentsof theservicesprovidedbythecentres and the seriousness of the problem of child labour.

Activities for Expected Outcome 11. Train and raise awareness of employees working in the Development Services Centres on the characteristics and standards of school support programmes and identify the mechanisms to take advantage of them and of the programmes for supporting and withdrawing child workers.2. Train and raise awareness of employees in the Development Services Centres on the characteristics of the problem of child labour and provide them with access to resources related to the issue, such as booklets and brochures.3. Implement workshops and discussion sessions in schools and religious centres and various gathering places on the issue of child labour.

32

Expected Outcome 2Mechanisms are developed, within a strong network between the Development Services Centres and the Civil Society Organizations located in the geographical area of each centre, to guide the working children towards school support programmes in partnership with the Ministry of Education, and guide their parents towards the support programmes for parents of working children.

Activities for Expected Outcome 21. Buildrelationshipswithallinstitutionsandcivilsocietyassociationslocatedinthegeographicalareasof each centre and recognize their activities, following relevant assessments of their needs. 2. Collect information about working children from all institutions and civil society associations and municipalities.

4.7 loCal authorItIes

Specific ObjectiveBytheendof 2016,localauthoritiesareconsciousandawareof andparticipatingintheeliminationof the worst forms of child labour.

Expected Outcome 1Governors and mayors are more aware of and are playing an active role in the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.

Activities for Expected Outcome 11. Raise the awareness of governors and mayors of the problem of child labour and the necessity for them to be engaged in the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.2. Carry out a brief assessment of the challenges and successes of already established Governors Committees against Child Labour.3. Accordinglyrevivethecommitteesinthegovernoratestocombattheworstformsof childlabour,based on lessons learnt from previous experience, and establish new committees wherever needed. 4. Create networks involving these committees and the developmental services centres in the regions.5. Organizeawarenesssessionsformayorsandgovernorsandmunicipalitiesontheproblemof theworst forms of child labour.6. Issue a memorandum to encourage mayors and governors to release statements for any child exposed totheworstformsof childlabourandforschooldrop-outs.

33

Expected Outcome 2Heads of municipalities and unions of municipalities and Mayors are more aware of and are playing an active role in combating the worst forms of child labour.

Activities for Expected Outcome 21. Createjobsfortheparentsof childrenexposedtotheworstformsof childlabour.2. Encourage municipalities and unions of municipalities to organize multi-disciplinary localcommittees and to train them to deal with the child labour issue in coordination with the Development Services Centres, and strengthen the partnership between the public and private sectors for the purpose of developing specialized prevention and withdrawal programmes for working children.3. Ensure enrolment and registration of children in school and their integration into the educational system.4. Set up child labour monitoring mechanisms in areas and sectors where labour inspectorates are weak, especially in informal activities and sectors.5. Raisemayors’awarenessof childrightsandthedangersof theworstformsof childlabour.6. Develop a reporting mechanism among mayors and concerned authorities for cases of child labour (forexamplebysettingupchildlabourmonitoringsystems).

4.8 loCal CommunIty and CommunIty leaders

Specific ObjectiveBytheendof 2016,NGOsandlocalcommunitiesbecomeawareof andareeffectiveineliminatingtheworst forms of child labour in Lebanon.

Expected Outcome 1Task forces, includingmembers of civil society associations,Workers’ Associations and Employers,university students and professors of schools and technical institutes, are trained in all Lebanese regions.

Activities for Expected Outcome 11. SettingthecriteriabytheNationalSteeringCommitteeAgainstChildLabourforselectingthetaskforces on different child labour related issues.2. Ensurethetaskforcesattractanumberof volunteersfortrainingoncarryingoutawareness-raisingcampaigns.3. Ensure cooperation and coordination between the task forces and volunteers on the one hand and local community institutions on the other hand.4. Formafundingcommitteewithinthetaskforcestoprovidefinancialaidforcampaigns.5. Followupthetaskforceplanswithinatime-boundscheduleandevaluatetheachievedresults.6. Communicate and coordinate with the administrations of universities, schools and technical institutes, and unions and student bodies, with the aim of implementing awareness campaign on the worst forms of child labour.

34

Expected Outcome 2Awarenessisraisedthroughcommercialandrecreationalcentresandpublicplacesandthroughsocialcommunication means.

Activities for Expected Outcome 21. Putuppostersanddistributepamphletsinmajormallsandwithinentertainmentcentres.2. Presentdocumentaryfilms related to the subjectongiant screens, especiallyon theoccasionof International Children’s Day. 3. Highlight the issue through television programmes, SMS, Internet and visual media.

Expected Outcome 3Awarenesscampaignsarecarriedoutthroughemployersandlabourunionsandofficesof theNationalSocialSecurityFund.

Activities for Expected Outcome 31. Create special units specialized in the issue at employers’ associations and the General Confederation of LebaneseWorkers.2. Encourage the labour unions to take action in instances where children are found working in a way that is not consistent with legal provisions.3. Communicatewiththegeneralmanagerof theNationalSocialSecurityFundasafirststeptoputtinguppostersinthe37officescoveringallLebanesedistricts.

Expected Outcome 4Awarenessisraisedonchildlabouranditsworstformsamongandthroughreligiousleaders.

Activities for Expected Outcome 41. Incorporate the issue of the worst forms of child labour into religious speeches.2. Develop and disseminate manuals showing the opinions of religions regarding the worst forms of child labour.

35

4.9 PreventIon

Specific ObjectiveBytheendof 2015,Lebanesesocietyacquiressolidandcoherentprotectionmechanismsthatareabletoprevent children from engaging in the worst forms of child labour.

Expected Outcome 1AspecializedjuvenilepoliceunitisformedwithintheInternalSecurityForcestopreventtheengagementof children in the worst forms of child labour.

Activities for Expected Outcome 11. Issueadecreeforestablishingaspecializedjuvenilepolicewhichcontributestothepreventionof recruitment of children in the worst forms of child labour. 2. EstablishacentralofficefortheunitinBeirutandprovideitwiththenecessaryfacilities.3. Empower all agents of the specialized police unit with the needed understanding and apply the mechanisms and methods of work based on child rights and human rights conventions.4. Develop an action plan for the intervention of the police unit in the areas witnessing prevalence of children in the worst forms of child labour.

Expected Outcome 2Thecapacityof schoolsisincreasedwithintheirthreemainelements(students,teachingstaff andschooladministration,includingparents’committees)onpreventingchildrenfrombeingdrawnintotheworstforms of labour.

Activities for Expected Outcome 21. Assignatleastonesocialworkertoeveryschool.2. Activatetheroleof parents’committeesinaddressingtheworstformsof childlabour.3. Inform children about their rights, especially their right to education and their right to be protected from the worst forms of child labour.

Expected Outcome 3The capacities of the concerned NGOs are strengthened in protecting children from the worst forms of child labour.

Activities for Expected Outcome 31. Raise awareness of the concerned associations about child rights.2. Train associations to prepare rehabilitation programmes for children that enable them to attain certain skills that prevent them from being drawn into the worst forms of child labour.3. Buildthecapacitiesof socialworkersonhowtocombattheworstformsof childlabourandraisetheir awareness of their roles in this regard.4. Conductfieldvisitstomonitortheproblemsandtoprovideappropriateservicesforeachcaseonthe basis of the appropriate information.

36

Expected Outcome 4The capacity and role of labour inspection authorities and of theNational EmploymentAgency isactivated and its capacity strengthened in the area of preventing the worst forms of child labour.

Activity for Expected Outcome 41. Train labour inspectors and provide them with skills to carry out their role in monitoring the implementation of the provisions of the Lebanese Labour Law, especially Decree No. 8987, which prohibits using children in the worst forms of child labour and hazardous work.2. Issue decrees that cover the full mandate of inspection on child labour and provide inspectors with special tools to implement their mandate.3. Empower theNationalEmploymentAgency to provide employment opportunities and conducttraining for parents of children exposed to the worst forms of child labour.

4.10 WIthdraWal

Specific ObjectiveBytheendof 2016,allchildrenexposedtotheworstformsof childlabourhavebeenwithdrawn.

Expected Outcome 1The geographical localities that include the largest numbers of children exposed to the worst forms of child labour are determined.

Activities for Expected Outcome 11. Compile data on the characteristics of children in Lebanon, such as their age distribution, nationality, and educational and social levels.2. Transfer children exposed to the worst forms of child labour to specialized rehabilitation centres.3. Create rehabilitation centres that meet the needs of children who have been withdrawn from the worst forms of child labour.

Expected Outcome 2The future aspirations of children who have been withdrawn from the worst forms of child labour are acknowledged.

Activities for Expected Outcome 21. Communicatewithparents, labour inspectorsandtheInternalSecurityForcesonthewithdrawalprocess.2. Develop specific recommendations for the establishment of rehabilitation centres based on theidentifiedneedsanddemandsof thechildren.3. Devisequestionnairestofindoutthefutureaspirationsof children.4. EstablishaspecializedpoliceunitwithintheInternalSecurityForcestoworkonwithdrawingchildrenfrom the worst forms of child labour.

37

Expected Outcome 3Committees are established to aid coordination between the workers associations, employers’ organizations, civilsociety,municipalitiesandunionsof municipalities,theInternalSecurityForcesandinspectorsfromthe Ministry of Labour.

Activities for Expected Outcome 31. Enable coordination committees to take charge of investigating the locations of child workers.2. Ensure committees play a role in raising awareness within the internal bodies of municipalities, civil society organizations and others.3. Raisetheprofileof theroleof committeesthroughmobilizingpublicopiniontodrawattentiontothe issue.

4.11 rehabIlItatIon

Specific ObjectiveBytheendof 2016,all childrenwhohavebeenwithdrawnfromtheworst formsof child labour inLebanon have been rehabilitated in professional rehabilitation centres established in various Lebanese regions,bythemid-2014,toprovidepsychological,healthandsocialservicestoallchildrenwhohavebeen withdrawn from the worst forms of child labour.

Expected Outcome 1Social rehabilitation of all children who have been withdrawn from the worst forms of child labour has been achieved.

Activities for Expected Outcome 11. DevelopthemechanismbywhichtheMinistryof SocialAffairsshallsetuprehabilitationcentres.2. Develop an action plan for rehabilitating children who have been exposed to the worst forms of child labour in Lebanon.3. Conduct a rapid assessment survey to identify the categories of children most exposed to the worst forms of child labour.4. Devise a logistical programme for organizing a number of specialists trained in psychological and social support.5. Communicatewiththeconcernedcentresregardingtheirintegrationintotheeducationalprogramme.6. Communicatewiththeparentsof workingchildrenforthepurposeof studyingthesocio-economicconditions of the families to which children belong and bringing the attention of the parents to the necessity of rehabilitating their children.7. Set up a monitoring and evaluation committee to follow up the rehabilitation process.

38

Expected Outcome 2Medical rehabilitation of all children who have been withdrawn from the worst forms of child labour has been achieved.

Activities for Expected Outcome 21. Formacommitteeof doctorstofollowupthemedicalrehabilitationprocess.2. Coordinate with the Ministry of Public Health in order to provide health coverage.

Expected Outcome 3Psychological rehabilitation of all children who have been withdrawn from the worst forms of child labour has been achieved.

Activity for Expected Outcome 31. Form a committee including psychologists and social workers to follow up the psychologicalrehabilitation process.

39

5. Monitoring and evaluationMonitoring, evaluation and impact assessment are three essential principles for ensuring the success of anyNAP.WithregardtoNAPsrelatedtochildren’srights,evaluationisbasedontwoelements:results-basedplanning,andhumanrights-basedplanning.

ThemonitoringprocessforthisNAPentailsthecontinuingandsystematicgatheringandanalysisof allinformation related to its implementation. The evaluation is essential for assessing the effectiveness and appropriateness of the implementation process and formulating recommendations for its improvement, as needed.

ThisNAPalsoreliesonanimpactassessmentmechanism,whereresultsaremeasuredaccordingtothereal and positive change in the lives of children who have been withdrawn from the worst forms of child labour, or in the lives of working children in general.

The authorities responsible for implementing the NAP have agreed to take into account children’sopinions in all the activities related to the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the NAP.ItshouldbealsonotedthattheNationalSteeringCommitteeAgainstChildLabouristhemainconcerned authority in themonitoring and evaluationprocess of theNAP in coordinationwith theChild labour Unit at the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Labour will lead the implementation of thisNAP.Inadditiontomonitoringtheimplementationof theNAPpersistently,theNationalSteeringCommittee in coordination with the Child Labour Unit will also conduct internal and independent evaluations periodically.

It is noteworthy that the indicators that will be used for the monitoring and evaluation process during the implementationof theNAPareindicatedintheattachedNAPLogicalFramework.

40

6. Costing and funding of the NAPInpreparingthisNAPaverypracticalandrealisticapproachhasbeenadopted.Thecostshavebeenestimated in the same way, with each activity assessed separately.

TheNAPmaybefinancedbythefollowingsourcesof funding:• Contribution of the Government of Lebanon;• ILO contribution;• Contributions of donor countries;• Acontribution,basedontheprincipleof corporatesocialresponsibility,of Lebanesecommercialcompanies and international commercial companies working in Lebanon.

Theestimatedcostfortheimplementationof theNAPisitemizedinTable6.1.

N.BThisestimatedcostisoverandbeyondtheresourcesalreadyinplaceand/ormobilizedbyLebaneseinstitutions and society.

41

table 6.1 ItemIzed CostIng of naP

Component Expected Outcome Estimated cost (US$)

LegislationandLawEnforcement 1 125,000

Freeandcompulsoryeducation 1 0

2 120,000

3 100,000

Integration into the educational system 1 1,000,000

2 50,000

3 1,500,000

Economicopportunitiesforparents 1 15,000,000

Capacity building and development 1 300,000

2 400,000

3 300,000

Developmentservicescentres 1 1,250,000

2 1,250,000

Local authorities 1 100,000

2 100,000

Local community and community leaders 1 100,000

2 140,000

3 180,000

4 100,000

Prevention 1 50,000

2 50,000

3 100,000

4 80,000

Withdrawal 1 50,000

2 20,000

3 20,000

Rehabilitation 1–3 1,000,000

Follow-upandevaluation 250,000

Total 23,735,000

42

43

Annex 1

natIonal aCtIon Planto elImInate the Worst forms of ChIld labour In lebanon

2013-2016

Specific Objectives:

I. AllLebaneselegislationsarecompatiblewiththeinternationalConventionsandProtocolsregardingchild rights and ready to be implemented.

II. Allchildrenof theageof primaryeducationbenefitfromtheirrighttohavefreeandcompulsoryeducation.

III. Allchildrenwhoarewithdrawnfromtheworstformsof child labourarereintegrated intotheeducational system.

IV. Familiesof childrenwithdrawnfromtheworstformsof childlabourandyouthof workingageobtainadequatejobsthatenablethemtoimprovetheireconomicandsocialconditions.

V. Societyisawareof,acceptsresponsibilityfor,andcontributestotheeliminationof theworstformsof childla-bourinLebanon.

VI. Worstformsof childlabourinthegeographicalareaof eachDevelopmentServicesCentrearebeing eliminated.

VII. Local authorities are conscious and awareof andparticipating in the eliminationof theworstformsof childla-bour.

VIII.NGOsandlocalcommunitiesbecomeawareof andareeffectiveineliminatingtheworstformsof child labour in Lebanon.

IX. Lebanese society acquires solid and coherent protection mechanisms that are able to preventchildrenfromen-gagingintheworstformsof childlabour.

X. Allchildrenexposedtotheworstformsof childlabourhavebeenwithdrawn.

XI. Allchildrenwhohavebeenwithdrawnfromtheworstformsof childlabourinLebanonhavebeenrehabilitated in professional rehabilitation centres.

44

Goa

l

Stra

tegi

c In

terv

enti

on 4

.1

Spec

ific

Obj

ectiv

e

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Issu

e re

gula

tory

dec

rees

for a

ll la

ws

rela

ted

to c

hild

righ

ts,

especiallyforLawNo.150of17August2011regardingArticle

49 o

n co

mpu

lsor

y ed

ucat

ion

in th

e pr

imar

y st

age.

Pass

the

draf

t law

regardingthemodificationoftheminimum

age

for e

mpl

oym

ent a

nd a

men

d th

e La

bour

Law

in re

spec

t of

the

chap

ter t

arge

ting

child

ren,

in a

dditi

on to

rele

asin

g its

co

rres

pond

ing

regu

lato

ry d

ecre

es.

Issu

e am

endm

ents

rela

ted

to L

aw N

o. 4

22 re

gard

ing

child

ren

inconflictwiththeLaw,whichiscurrentlybeingstudiedbythe

Min

istr

y of

Just

ice.

WorkwiththeMinistry

of Ju

stic

e to

incr

ease

the

pena

lty fo

r em

ploy

ers

who

use

chi

ld la

bour

or p

aren

ts w

ho e

ncou

rage

thei

r ch

ildre

n to

beg

or w

ork

in th

e st

reet

s, es

peci

ally

for r

epea

ted

offe

nces

.

Com

pile

info

rmat

ion

on a

com

pute

r dat

abas

e ab

out c

hild

ren

wor

king

, inc

ludi

ng to

hel

p es

tabl

ish if

child

ren

foun

d w

orki

ng h

ave

wor

ked

befo

re. S

uch

info

rmat

ion

gath

erin

g co

uld

be u

nder

take

n withthecollaborationoftheInternalSecurityForces.

AmendArticle617ofthePenalCode,whichstatesthatp

aren

ts

orcaregiversofchildrenbelowtheageof15shallbepunished

by im

pris

onm

ent f

rom

one

to s

ix m

onth

s an

d sh

all p

ay a

pen

alty

be

twee

n 20

,000

and

100

,000

Leb

anes

e po

unds

if th

ey h

ad th

e ca

paci

ty y

et d

id n

ot ta

ke a

ctio

n to

ens

ure

that

thei

r chi

ldre

n w

ere

not l

eft h

omel

ess.

1 2 3 4 5 6

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOL,MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IMM

an

d M

OJ

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IMM

an

d M

OJ

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IMM

an

d M

OJ

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IMM

an

d M

OJ

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IMM

an

d M

OJ

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IMM

an

d M

OJ

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberof

fo

rmul

ated

law

s

•Numberof

modifiedlaws

•Numberof

de

velo

ped

law

s

•Numberof

ap

prov

ed la

ws

EliminatetheWFCLinLebanonby2016

Legi

slat

ion

and

Law

Enf

orce

men

t

Bytheendof2015,allLebaneselegislationsarecompatiblewiththe

inte

rnat

iona

l Con

vent

ions

and

Pro

toco

ls

rega

rdin

g ch

ild ri

ghts

and

read

y to

be

impl

emen

ted.

Allexistinglegislationconcerningchildlabourisreviewed,newlaws

are

form

ulat

ed a

nd p

repa

red,

and

mec

hani

sms

are

esta

blis

hed

for t

heir

appl

icat

ion,

ens

urin

g ad

ditio

n of

a p

rovi

sion

rela

ted

to m

anda

tory

impl

emen

tatio

n.

45

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Thisrequiresmodifyingthisarticlesothatthespecifiedageis18

ratherthan15,theconditionregardingparentallackofcapacity

is c

ance

lled,

and

the

max

imum

pen

alty

is in

crea

sed

from

100

,000

to500,000Lebanesepounds.

AmendArticle618ofthe

Pena

l Cod

e, w

hich

sta

tes

that

all

thos

e w

ho le

t chi

ldre

n un

der t

he a

ge o

f 18

beg

for p

erso

nal

benefitshallbepunishedbyimprisonmentfromsixmonths

to tw

o ye

ars

and

shal

l pay

a p

enal

ty b

etw

een

20,0

00 a

nd

200,

000

Leba

nese

pou

nds.

The

re is

a n

eed

to e

xpan

d th

e ci

rcle

of

crim

inal

ity s

o th

at it

incl

udes

eve

ryon

e w

ho p

ushe

s an

underagechildintoajobthatislikelytolead,byitsnatureor

the

circ

umst

ance

s in

whi

ch it

is c

arrie

d ou

t, to

adv

erse

eff

ects

on

the

child

’s he

alth

, saf

ety

or m

oral

beh

avio

ur. I

n ad

ditio

n, th

e m

axim

um p

enal

ty s

houl

d be

incr

ease

d fr

om 2

00,0

00 to

1 m

illio

n Le

bane

se p

ound

s.

Und

erta

ke tr

aini

ng s

essi

ons forjudgesandofficersonhowto

dealwithchildreningeneralandthoseinconflictwiththelaw

duetotheirworkinspecificandhowtoenforcethelawstrictly.

Developalawthatrequiresmunicipalitiestogiveattentionto

the

issu

e of

com

batin

g th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

, and

en

forc

emen

t of

its c

orre

spon

ding

regu

lato

ry d

ecre

e.

Org

aniz

e ad

voca

cy c

ampa

igns

to g

ain

the

supp

ort o

f th

e co

ncer

ned

parli

amen

tary

com

mitt

ees

and

rais

e th

eir a

war

enes

s of

the

need

to a

men

d th

e la

ws

rela

ted

to u

nder

age

child

ren,

and

raisecommunityawarenessofchild-relatedissuesthroughthe

publ

icat

ion

of a

dver

tisem

ents

in v

isua

l, w

ritte

n an

d au

dio

med

ia.

Org

aniz

e a

com

mitt

ee in

clud

ing

repr

esen

tativ

es o

f th

e co

ncer

ned

auth

oriti

es to

mon

itor a

nd fo

llow

up

the

enfo

rcem

ent

of la

ws

rela

ting

to c

hild

labo

ur in

Leb

anon

.

Eng

age

child

ren

by ta

king

thei

r sug

gest

ions

on

how

to m

odify

an

d de

velo

p la

ws,

taki

ng a

ccou

nt o

f th

eir p

erso

nal e

xper

ienc

es.

7 8 9 10 11 12

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOL,MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IMM

an

d M

OJ

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IMM

an

d M

OJ

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IMM

an

d M

OJ

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IMM

an

d M

OJ

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IMM

an

d M

OJ

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IMM

an

d M

OJ

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberof

re

gula

tory

dec

rees

•Number

of

min

iste

rial

an

noun

cem

ents

reco

gniz

ing

child

labo

ur

•Numberof

re

com

men

datio

ns

is

sued

by

the

C

ounc

il of

Min

iste

rs

•Numberofissued

re

solu

tions

46

Goa

l

Stra

tegi

c In

terv

enti

on 4

.2

Spec

ific

Obj

ectiv

e

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

1

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

2

# #

Act

ivit

ies

Act

ivit

ies

Ens

ure

each

min

istr

y or

adm

inis

trat

ion

issu

es th

e in

tern

al

regu

latio

ns a

pply

ing

the

regu

lato

ry d

ecre

es.

Advocatefordisseminating

the

impo

rtan

ce o

f fr

ee a

nd

com

puls

ory

educ

atio

n fo

r Leb

anes

e so

ciet

y.

Identifythosecategoriesofaction(suchasincreasingenrolment

of c

hild

ren

in sc

hool

, and

dea

ling

with

chi

ldre

n w

ho h

ave

rece

ntly

dr

oppe

d ou

t of

or w

ho h

ave

neve

r atte

nded

sch

ool,

or w

ho h

ave

learningdifficulties)thatwillbetargetedbytheprogramme(2013).

Des

ign

educ

atio

nal p

rogr

amm

e su

ited

to e

ach

cate

gory

.

Orie

nt a

nd tr

ain

the

indi

vidu

als

conc

erne

d in

impl

emen

ting

the

prog

ram

me.

1 2 1 2 3

Tim

elin

e

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MO

L, M

EH

E

andMOSA

MO

L, M

EH

E

andMOSA

MOL,MOSA,

ME

HE

and

MO

J

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

and

MO

J

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

and

MO

J

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC,

UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, U

NE

SCO

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC,

UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, U

NE

SCO

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, U

NE

SCO

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

Indi

cato

rs

•Existenceofa

well-organized

sc

hool

sup

port

syst

em

EliminatetheWFCLinLebanonby2016

Freeandcompulsoryeducation

Bytheendof2016,allchildrenoftheageofprim

aryeducationbenefitfromtheirrighttohavefreeand

com

puls

ory

educ

atio

n as

par

t of

the

Nat

iona

l Edu

catio

n St

rate

gy d

evel

oped

in 2

010.

The

regu

lato

ry d

ecre

es fo

r fre

e an

d co

mpu

lsor

y ed

ucat

ion

are

endo

rsed

.

Theschoolsupportprogrammeisbeingdesignedandsanctionedinaccordancewithlegalrequirements.

47

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

3

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Trainteachersontheproblemofschooldrop-out,itscausesand

how

to d

eal w

ith it

.

Trai

n te

ache

rs o

n m

oder

n te

achi

ng m

etho

ds.

Prom

ote

the

conc

ept o

f ex

trac

urric

ular

act

iviti

es th

at e

ncou

rage

ch

ildre

n to

sta

y in

the

scho

ol s

yste

m a

nd re

duce

the

rate

of

schooldrop-out.

1 2 3

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOL,MOSA,

ME

HE

and

MO

J

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

and

MO

J

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

and

MO

J

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC,

UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, U

NE

SCO

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, U

NE

SCO

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

Thequalityoftheservicesofschoolsimproved

48

Goa

l

Stra

tegi

c In

terv

enti

on 4

.3

Spec

ific

Obj

ectiv

e

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

1

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Conductsurveysforselectedchildrenandschools(those

thatarefacinghighdrop-outorfailurerates)andconduct

stud

ies

on th

e cu

rric

ulum

and

the

adm

inis

trat

ive

wor

king

pr

oces

ses;

follo

w u

p by

enc

oura

ging

and

impl

emen

ting

scho

ol a

nd e

duca

tiona

l sup

port

pro

gram

mes

.

Tobenefitfromthesurveys

cond

ucte

d by

the

Min

istr

y of

E

duca

tion

and

Hig

her E

duca

tion

and

furt

her d

evel

op th

em.

Prov

ide

suita

ble

cond

ition

s an

d ci

rcum

stan

ces

in s

choo

ls

for s

uppo

rt o

f ta

rget

ed c

hild

ren.

Trai

n th

e ed

ucat

iona

l per

sonn

el, s

ocia

l wor

kers

and

sp

ecia

lists

on

the

educ

atio

nal r

ight

s of

wor

king

chi

ldre

n an

d th

e te

chni

calit

ies

of c

atch

up

prog

ram

mes

and

re

inte

grat

ion

into

edu

catio

n.

Rai

se a

war

enes

s of

par

ents

,em

ploy

ers,

wor

kers

’ as

soci

atio

ns a

nd th

e co

mm

unity

, and

act

ivat

e th

e ro

le o

f pa

rent

s’ co

unci

ls th

roug

h tr

aini

ng p

rogr

amm

es.

Dev

elop

edu

catio

nal p

rogr

amm

es d

evot

ed to

all

aspe

cts

of

the

child

’s w

elfa

re.

Prov

ide

ince

ntiv

es to

enc

oura

ge u

se o

f sc

hool

sup

port

pr

ogra

mm

es.

Workonstoppingviolencein

sch

ools,

esp

ecia

lly th

at th

e GovernmentofLebanonhasofficiallyadoptedaNational

StrategyonViolenceagainstChildren,preparedbythe

HigherCouncilofChildhood-MinistryofSocialAffairs.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Tim

elin

e

Bythemid

of2015

Bythe

mid

of2015

Bythemid

of2015

Bythe

mid

of2015

Bythe

mid

of2015

Bythe

mid

of2015

Bythe

mid

of2015

Bythe

mid

of

2015

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MO

L, M

EH

E,

andMOSA

MO

L, M

EH

E,

andMOSA

MO

L, M

EH

E,

andMOSA

MO

L, M

EH

E,

andMOSA

MO

L, M

EH

E,

andMOSA

MO

L, M

EH

E,

andMOSA

MO

L, M

EH

E,

andMOSA

MO

L, M

EH

E,

andMOSA

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC,UNESCO

andUNICEF

ILO–IP

EC

, UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC,UNESCO

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC,UNESCO

andUNICEF

ILO–IP

EC

, UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–IP

EC

, UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–IP

EC

, UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–IP

EC

, UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberofschools

th

at h

ave

laun

ched

a sc

hool

sup

port

pr

ogra

mm

e

EliminatetheWFCLinLebanonby2016

Inte

grat

ion

into

the

educ

atio

nal s

yste

m

Bytheendof2015,allchildrenwhoarewithdrawnfromtheworstfo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur a

re re

inte

grat

ed in

to th

e ed

ucat

iona

l sys

tem

.

Scho

olin

g su

ppor

t is

prov

ided

to a

ll ch

ildre

n in

nee

d by

the

mid

of

2014

.

49

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

2

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Con

duct

sur

veys

and

ana

lysi

s on

chi

ldre

n w

ho d

ropp

ed o

ut

of s

choo

l and

ana

lyse

thei

r dis

trib

utio

n an

d ca

usal

fact

ors

for d

ropo

ut.

Con

duct

stu

dies

on

the

educ

atio

nal p

rogr

amm

e pr

ovid

ed

for t

he re

inte

grat

ion

proc

ess

and

iden

tify

appr

opria

te

prog

ram

mes

, tak

ing

adva

ntag

e of

ext

erna

l exp

erie

nces

in

orde

r to

crea

te n

ewly

dev

elop

ed p

rogr

amm

es.

Dev

elop

legi

slat

ion

for h

omel

ess

child

ren

in o

rder

to b

ring

them

bac

k in

to th

e ed

ucat

ion

syst

em.

Prov

ide

a su

itabl

e sc

hool

env

ironm

ent.

1 2 3 4

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bytheend

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

ME

HE

, MO

L an

d MOSA,MOIM(Head

ofMunicipalities)

ME

HE

, MO

L an

d MOSA

ME

HE

, MOLandMOSA

ME

HE

, MOLandMOSA

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC,

UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, U

NE

SCO

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, U

NE

SCO

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, U

NE

SCO

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberofstudents

whohavebenefited

fr

om th

e sc

hool

supp

ort p

rogr

amm

e

Schoolreintegrationisprovidedforallchildrenwhohavedroppedoutofschool,bytheendof2015.

50

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

3

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Con

duct

a la

bour

mar

ket s

urve

y

Con

duct

a s

urve

y of

the

num

ber o

f st

uden

ts,

prog

ram

mes

and

pro

fess

iona

l tra

inin

gs a

vaila

ble

on th

e m

arke

t.

Dev

elop

voc

atio

nal c

urric

ula

that

mat

ch w

ith t

he

labo

ur m

arke

t.

Rai

se a

war

enes

s of

the

impo

rtan

ce o

f vo

catio

nal

trai

ning

and

con

duct

stu

dies

abo

ut t

he n

eeds

of

the

mar

ket.

Dev

elop

pa

rtne

rshi

ps

in

orde

r to

ac

cess

th

e ne

cess

ary

expe

rienc

es.

Rai

se th

e aw

aren

ess

of p

aren

ts, e

mpl

oyer

s an

d th

e co

mm

unity

.

Prov

ide

ince

ntiv

e ac

tiviti

es a

nd im

plem

ent t

he

voca

tiona

l tra

inin

g pr

ogra

mm

es

ProvidePostVocationalT

rain

ing

Supp

ort a

s linkagestoappropriateemployersandfinancial

inst

itutio

ns fo

r loa

ns a

nd g

rant

s to

est

ablis

h sm

all

busi

ness

es

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bytheend

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOL,MEHE,MOSA,

NEAandMinistry

of C

omm

erce

MO

L, MEHE,MOSA

andNEA

MO

L, MEHE,MOSA

andNEA

MO

L, M

EH

E, MOSA

andNEA

MO

L, MEHE,MOSA

andNEA

MO

L, MEHE,MOSA

andNEA

MO

L, MEHE,MOSA

andNEA

MO

L, MEHE,MOSA

andNEA

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

, UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC,U

NE

SCO

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberof

m

arke

t sur

veys

cond

ucte

d

•Numberof

w

orki

ng c

hild

ren

whohavebenefited

fr

om th

e sy

stem

atic

voca

tiona

l tra

inin

g

Acceleratedvocationaltrainingandformaleducationisprovidedforallinterestedchildrenbytheendof2015.

51

Goa

l

Stra

tegi

c In

terv

enti

on 4

.4

Spec

ific

Obj

ectiv

e

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Con

duct

rapi

d as

sess

men

t stu

dies

in a

reas

with

hig

h pr

opor

tions

of

chi

ld la

bour

to id

entif

y th

e ci

rcum

stan

ces

of p

aren

ts w

hose

ch

ildre

n ar

e w

ithdr

awn

from

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur.

Enc

oura

ge in

stitu

tions

and

con

cern

ed a

dmin

istr

atio

ns to

wor

k on

hel

ping

fam

ilies

of

with

draw

n ch

ildre

n, a

ccor

ding

to th

eir

spec

ializ

atio

ns an

d ca

paci

ties,

in su

ch ar

eas a

s acc

eler

ated

voca

tiona

l training,providingsuitablejobopportunities,providingsoftloans

andtraininginthemanagementofsmall-scaleenterprises.

Encouragemunicipalitiestoprovidejobswithinthe

municipalitiesanditsaffiliatedinstitutions,andinprivate

inst

itutio

ns, f

or p

aren

ts w

hose

chi

ldre

n ar

e w

ithdr

awn,

incl

udin

g th

roug

h co

ordi

natio

n w

ith v

illag

e m

ayor

s, la

bour

uni

ons,

developmentservicescentresandnon-profitorganizations.

Gra

nts

and

exem

ptio

ns c

an b

e pr

ovid

ed b

y th

e m

unic

ipal

ity to

ea

se th

e pa

rent

s’ ec

onom

ic s

ituat

ion,

for e

xam

ple

by e

stab

lishi

ng

aspecialfundtograntinterest-freeloans.

DeveloprecruitmentofficesaffiliatedtotheN

ationalEmployment

Agency,especiallyintheworst-affectedsub-regions,inorderto

helpparentsfindworkorp

rovi

de a

ccel

erat

ed v

ocat

iona

l tra

inin

g,

forexampleinmanagingsmall-scaleenterprisesorinmarketing.

Ena

ble

deve

lopm

ent s

ervi

ces

serv

ices

cen

tres

und

er th

e M

inis

try

ofSocialAffairstoplayaroleinhelpingtheparentsof

vuln

erab

le c

hild

ren

by p

rovi

ding

them

with

sm

all l

oans

and

in

givi

ng s

ubst

antiv

e as

sist

ance

to p

eopl

e w

ith d

isab

ilitie

s th

roug

h th

e pr

ovis

ion

of re

leva

nt fa

cilit

ies.

1 2 3 4 5

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

016

Bytheend

of 2

016

Bytheend

of 2

016

Bytheend

of 2

016

Bytheend

of 2

016

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOL,MOSA

andNEA

MOL,MOSA

andNEA

MOL,MOSA

andNEA

MOL,MOSA

andNEA

MOL,MOSA

andNEA

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

ILO–IPEC

ILO–IPEC

ILO–IPEC

ILO–IPEC

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberof

fa

mili

es w

hose

econ

omic

situ

atio

ns h

as

be

en im

prov

ed,

by

bei

ng a

ble

to

mee

t the

bas

ic

ne

eds,

thro

ugh

th

e pr

ovis

ion

of

eco

nom

ic

op

port

uniti

es

EliminatetheWFCLinLebanonby2016

Eco

nom

ic o

ppor

tuni

ties

for p

aren

ts a

nd y

outh

of

wor

king

age

Pare

nts

of c

hild

ren

with

draw

n fr

om th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

andyouthofworkingageobtainadequatejobs

that

ena

ble

them

to im

prov

e th

eir e

cono

mic

and

soc

ial c

ondi

tions

.

The

eco

nom

ic c

ondi

tions

of

the

fam

ilies

who

se c

hild

ren

have

bee

n w

ithdr

awn

from

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur

are

impr

oved

.

52

Goa

l

Stra

tegi

c In

terv

enti

on 4

.5

Spec

ific

Obj

ectiv

e

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

1

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

2

# #

Act

ivit

ies

Act

ivit

ies

Est

ablis

h th

e ro

les

and

man

date

s of

eac

h of

the

conc

erne

d se

ctor

s.

Con

duct

a s

urve

y on

the

num

ber o

f w

orki

ng c

hild

ren

and

the

sect

ors

in w

hich

they

are

cur

rent

ly w

orki

ng.

Considertheefficacyandc

urre

nt e

ffec

tiven

ess

of

legislation,projectsandpreviouslyimplementedplans.

Trai

n m

ayor

s on

thei

r rol

e in

the

elim

inat

ion

of th

e w

orst

fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur.

Trai

n 24

0 re

pres

enta

tives

and

soc

ial w

orke

rs o

f de

velo

pmen

t ser

vice

s ce

ntre

s in

all

Leba

nese

regi

ons

on m

eans

of

inte

rven

tion

with

at r

isk

and

wor

king

ch

ildre

n.

Train200journalistsontheimportanceoftheirrole

in b

ringi

ng th

e is

sue

of w

orki

ng c

hild

ren

to n

atio

nal

atte

ntio

n.

1 2 3 1 2 3

Tim

elin

e

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

013

Bythe

end

of 2

013

Bythe

end

of 2

013

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOL,MOSA

andCAS

MO

L, MOSA

andCAS

MO

L, MOSA

andCAS

MOL,MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IM

and

MO

J

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IM

and

MO

J

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IM

and

MO

J

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–I

PEC

Indi

cato

rs

Indi

cato

rs

•Studyconductedtoidentify

th

e ro

les

of a

ll ac

tors

eng

aged

in e

limin

atin

g th

e w

orst

form

s

of c

hild

labo

ur

•Increaseinth

e nu

mbe

r of

ac

tors

invo

lved

in e

limin

atin

g

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labourby2015

•Numberoftraineesinthe

pu

blic

and

priv

ate

and

civi

l

soci

ety

sect

ors

by th

e ye

ar

20

14 in

the

28 d

istr

icts

EliminatetheWFCLinLebanonby2016

Cap

acity

bui

ldin

g an

d de

velo

pmen

t

Bytheendof2015,societyisawareof,acceptsresponsibilityfor,andc

ontr

ibut

es t

o th

e el

imin

atio

n of

the

wor

st

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

in L

eban

on.

Bytheendof2013,studieshavebeenconductedanddocumentation

com

pile

d fo

r det

erm

inin

g th

e ro

les

of th

e ac

tors

invo

lved

in e

limin

atin

g th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

.

Bytheendof2014,approximately5,000individualshavebeentrainedfromthegovernmentalandnon-governmental

sect

ors,

priv

ate

inst

itutio

ns a

nd fr

om c

ivil

soci

ety

at la

rge

in 2

8 di

stric

ts.

53

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Trai

n 60

0 ac

tivis

ts fr

om c

ivil

soci

ety

orga

niza

tions

on

the

prot

ectio

n of

chi

ldre

n fr

om th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

an

d ho

w to

inte

rven

e an

d co

nduc

t adv

ocac

y pr

ogra

mm

es.

Train56childrenoverfo

ur y

ears

who

will

late

r con

stitu

te a

pa

rliam

ent o

f w

orki

ng c

hild

ren.

Trai

n at

leas

t one

del

egat

e fr

om e

ach

mun

icip

ality

and

rele

vant

socialpartners(governmentalandnon-governmental)in

Leba

non

on c

omba

ting

child

labo

ur.

Train500officialsfromtheInternalSecurityForcesto

inte

rven

e in

with

draw

ing

child

ren

from

the

wor

st fo

rms

of

child

labo

ur.

4 5 6 7

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOL,MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IM

and

MO

J

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IM

and

MO

J

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IM

and

MO

J

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

, MO

IM

and

MO

J

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–I

PEC

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberof

tr

aine

es in

the

pu

blic

and

priv

ate

and

civi

l societysec-tors

by

the

year

201

4

in th

e 28

dis

tric

ts

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

3

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Formcommitteesinallmunicipalitiesthatwillbeconcerned

with

act

ivat

ing

the

issu

e of

chi

ld la

bour

.

Con

duct

a s

erie

s of

trai

ning

wor

ksho

ps o

n C

hild

Lab

our a

nd

Soci

al S

afet

y N

ets.

Formsocialsafetynetsinth

e si

x go

vern

orat

es.

Cre

ate

a fo

rum

of

wor

king

chi

ldre

n fr

om a

ll re

gion

s an

d se

ctor

s.

Org

aniz

e “t

alk

show

” m

eetin

gs w

ith th

e m

edia

to la

unch

a

cam

paig

n an

d fo

llow

up

durin

g th

e ea

rly s

tage

s.

Trai

n 60

0 ac

tivis

ts fr

om c

ivil

soci

ety

on a

dvoc

acy

cam

paig

ns

andtechniques.

1 2 3 4 5 6

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOL,MOSA,

ME

HE

and

MO

IM

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

and

MO

IM

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

and

MO

IM

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

and

MO

IM

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

and

MO

I

MO

L an

d MOSA

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberof

go

vern

orat

es a

nd

di

stric

ts th

at

ha

ve e

stab

lishe

d

soci

al s

afet

y ne

ts

•Numberofactive

pa

rtic

ipan

ts in

the

so

cial

saf

ety

nets

Bytheendof2014,thecapacityofallstakeholdershasbeenbuiltinsocialsafetynets,networking,coordinationand

advo

cacy

.

54

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Hol

d di

alog

ue s

essi

ons

with

par

liam

enta

rians

invo

lved

in th

e is

sue.

Com

mun

icat

e w

ith th

e MinistryofForeignAffairsand

Emigrantsaboutinvitingdonorstocontributetothefinancing

oftheproposedprojectsinordertoobtaintheintendedresults.

Prep

are

broc

hure

s, po

ster

s an

d tr

aini

ng m

anua

ls o

n th

e is

sue.

7 8 9

Tim

elin

e

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

and

MO

IM

MO

L an

d MOFA

MO

L, MOSA,

ME

HE

and

MO

IM

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberof

go

vern

orat

es a

nd

di

stric

ts th

at

ha

ve e

stab

lishe

d

soci

al s

afet

y ne

ts

•Numberofactive

pa

rtic

ipan

ts in

the

so

cial

saf

ety

nets

55

Goa

l

Stra

tegi

c In

terv

enti

on 4

.6

Spec

ific

Obj

ectiv

e

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

1

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Trai

n an

d ra

ise

awar

enes

s of

em

ploy

ees

wor

king

in th

e D

evel

opm

ent S

ervi

ces

Cen

tres

on

the

char

acte

ristic

s an

d st

anda

rds

of s

choo

l sup

port

pro

gram

mes

and

iden

tify

the

mec

hani

sms

to ta

ke a

dvan

tage

of

them

and

of

the

prog

ram

mes

fo

r sup

port

ing

and

with

draw

ing

child

wor

kers

.

Trai

n an

d ra

ise

awar

enes

s of

em

ploy

ees

in th

e D

evel

opm

ent

Serv

ices

Cen

tres

on

the

char

acte

ristic

s of

the

prob

lem

of

child

la

bour

and

pro

vide

them

with

acc

ess

to re

sour

ces

rela

ted

to th

e is

sue,

suc

h as

boo

klet

s an

d br

ochu

res.

Impl

emen

t wor

ksho

ps a

nd d

iscu

ssio

n se

ssio

ns in

sch

ools

and

re

ligio

us c

entr

es a

nd v

ario

us g

athe

ring

plac

es o

n th

e is

sue

of

child

labo

ur.

1 2 3

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

013

Bytheend

of 2

013

Bythe

end

of 2

013

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOSA

and

MO

L

MOSA

and

MO

L

MOSA

and

MO

L

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

Indi

cato

rs

•NumberofDevelopment

Se

rvic

es C

entr

es th

at

ha

ve n

etw

orke

d w

ith

ci

vil s

ocie

ty a

ssoc

iatio

ns

an

d ac

tivis

ts lo

cate

d in

the

geog

raph

ical

are

a of

each

cen

tre

in y

ear 2

013

•Numberofassociations

th

at h

ave

netw

orke

d

with

eac

h de

velo

pmen

t

serv

ices

cen

tre

EliminatetheWFCLinLebanonby2016

Dev

elop

men

t Ser

vice

s C

entr

es

Bytheendofyear2016,theworstformsofchildlabourinthes

elec

ted

geog

raph

ical

are

a of

eac

h de

velo

pmen

t se

rvic

es c

entr

e ar

e be

ing

elim

inat

ed.

Rai

se a

war

enes

s of

the

staf

f in

the

Dev

elop

men

t Ser

vice

s C

entr

es oftheproblemofchildlabourdur-ing2013,and

raiseawarenessofbeneficiaryandnon-beneficiaryparentsoftheservicesprovidedbythecentresandtheseriousness

of th

e pr

oble

m o

f ch

ild la

bour

.

56

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

2

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Buildrelationshipswithallinstitutionsandcivil

soci

ety

asso

ciat

ions

loca

ted

in th

e ge

ogra

phic

al

area

s of

eac

h ce

ntre

and

reco

gniz

e th

eir a

ctiv

ities

, fo

llow

ing

rele

vant

ass

essm

ents

of

thei

r nee

ds.

Col

lect

info

rmat

ion

abou

t wor

king

chi

ldre

n fr

om

all i

nstit

utio

ns a

nd c

ivil

soci

ety

asso

ciat

ions

and

m

unic

ipal

ities

.

1 2

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOSA

and

MO

L

MOSA

and

MO

L

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberofmechanismsthathavebeen

de

velo

ped

in c

entr

es to

gui

de th

e

wor

king

chi

ldre

n to

war

ds s

choo

l

supp

ort p

rogr

amm

es in

par

tner

ship

with

the

Min

istr

y of

Edu

catio

n an

d

the

conc

erne

d as

soci

atio

ns a

nd g

uide

th

eir p

aren

ts to

war

ds s

uppo

rt

pr

ogra

mm

es fo

r par

ents

of

wor

king

ch

ildre

n in

par

tner

ship

with

the

co

ncer

ned

asso

ciat

ions

in 2

013

•Numberofworkingchildrenand

pa

rent

s w

ho h

ave

been

dire

cted

to th

e

supp

ort p

rogr

amm

es in

201

3

•Numberofworkerswhoseawareness

ha

s bee

n ra

ised

of

the

prob

lem

of

child

labo

ur in

201

3

•Numberofbeneficiaryand

non-beneficiaryparentsfromthe

D

evel

opm

ent S

ervi

ces

Cen

tres

who

se

aw

aren

ess

has

been

rais

ed o

f th

e

serio

usne

ss o

f th

e ch

ild la

bour

issu

e.

Mec

hani

sms

are

deve

lope

d, w

ithin

a s

tron

g ne

twor

k be

twee

n th

e D

evel

opm

ent S

ervi

ces

Cen

tres

and

the

Civ

il So

ciet

y O

rgan

izat

ions

loca

ted

in th

e ge

ogra

phic

al a

rea

of e

ach

cent

re, t

o gu

ide

the

wor

king

chi

ldre

n to

war

ds s

choo

l su

ppor

t pro

gram

mes

in p

artn

ersh

ip w

ith th

e M

inis

try

of E

duca

tion,

and

gui

de th

eir p

aren

ts to

war

ds th

e su

ppor

t pr

ogra

mm

es fo

r par

ents

of

wor

king

chi

ldre

n.

57

Goa

l

Stra

tegi

c In

terv

enti

on 4

.7

Spec

ific

Obj

ectiv

e

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

1

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Rai

se th

e aw

aren

ess

of g

over

nors

and

may

ors

of th

e pr

oble

m

of c

hild

labo

ur a

nd th

e ne

cess

ity fo

r the

m to

be

enga

ged

in th

e el

imin

atio

n of

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur.

Car

ry o

ut a

brie

f as

sess

men

t of

the

chal

leng

es a

nd s

ucce

sses

of

alre

ady

esta

blis

hed

Gov

erno

rs C

omm

ittee

s ag

ains

t Chi

ld L

abou

r.

Accordinglyrevivethecommitteesinthegovernoratestocombat

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur, b

ased

on

less

ons

lear

nt fr

om

prev

ious

exp

erie

nce,

and

est

ablis

h ne

w c

omm

ittee

s w

here

ver

need

ed.

Cre

ate

netw

orks

invo

lvin

g th

ese

com

mitt

ees

and

the

deve

lopm

enta

l ser

vice

s ce

ntre

s in

the

regi

ons.

Org

aniz

e aw

aren

ess

sess

ions

for m

ayor

s an

d go

vern

ors

and

mun

icip

aliti

es o

n th

e pr

oble

m o

f th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

.

Issu

e a

mem

oran

dum

to e

ncou

rage

may

ors

and

gove

rnor

s to

re

leas

e st

atem

ents

for a

ny c

hild

exp

osed

to th

e w

orst

form

s of

childlabourandforschooldrop-outs.

1 2 3 4 5 6

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MO

L an

d M

OIM

MO

L an

d M

OIM

MO

L an

d M

OIM

MO

L an

d M

OIM

MO

L an

d M

OIM

MO

L an

d M

OIM

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–I

PEC

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberof

go

vern

ors

and

m

ayor

s w

ho h

ave

be

en c

over

ed b

y th

e awareness-raising

ac

tiviti

es

•Numberof

go

vern

ors

and

m

ayor

s w

ho h

ave

ta

ken

posi

tive

attit

udes

and

posi

tions

tow

ards

the

elim

inat

ion

of

th

e w

orst

form

s

of c

hild

labo

ur

EliminatetheWFCLinLebanonby2016

Loca

l aut

horit

ies

Bytheendof2016,localauthoritiesareconsciousandawareofandp

artic

ipat

ing

in t

he e

limin

atio

n of

the

wor

st

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

.

Gov

erno

rs a

nd m

ayor

s are

mor

e aw

are

of a

nd a

re p

layi

ng a

n ac

tive

role

in th

e el

imin

atio

n of

the

wor

st fo

rms o

f ch

ild

labo

ur.

58

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

2

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Createjobsfortheparentsofchildrenexposedtothe

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur.

Enc

oura

ge m

unic

ipal

ities

and

uni

ons

of m

unic

ipal

ities

toorganizemulti-disciplinarylocalcommitteestodeal

with

the

child

labo

ur is

sue

in c

oord

inat

ion

with

the

Dev

elop

men

t Ser

vice

s C

entr

es, a

nd s

tren

gthe

n th

e pa

rtne

rshi

p be

twee

n th

e pu

blic

and

priv

ate

sect

ors

for

the

purp

ose

of d

evel

opin

g sp

ecia

lized

pre

vent

ion

and

with

draw

al p

rogr

amm

es fo

r wor

king

chi

ldre

n.

Ens

ure

enro

lmen

t and

regi

stra

tion

of c

hild

ren

in

scho

ol a

nd th

eir i

nteg

ratio

n in

to th

e ed

ucat

iona

l sy

stem

.

Set u

p ch

ild la

bour

mon

itorin

g m

echa

nism

s in

are

as

and

sect

ors

whe

re la

bour

insp

ecto

rate

s ar

e w

eak,

es

peci

ally

in in

form

al a

ctiv

ities

and

sec

tors

.

Rai

se m

ayor

s’ aw

aren

ess

of c

hild

righ

ts a

nd th

e da

nger

s of

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur.

Dev

elop

a re

port

ing

mec

hani

sm a

mon

g m

ayor

s an

d concernedauthoritiesforcasesofchildlabour(for

examplebysettingupchildlabourmonitoringsystems).

1 2 3 4 5 6

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bytheend

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Bythe

end

of2015

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOL,MOSA,

Mun

icip

aliti

es

and

May

ors

MOL,MOSA,

Mun

icip

aliti

es

and

May

ors

MOL,MOSA,

Mun

icip

aliti

es

and

May

ors

MOL,MOSA,

Mun

icip

aliti

es

and

May

ors

MOL,MOSA,

Mun

icip

aliti

es

and

May

ors

MOL,MOSA,

Mun

icip

aliti

es

and

May

ors

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–I

PEC

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberofheadsandmayors

of

mun

icip

aliti

es a

nd u

nion

of m

unic

ipal

ities

who

hav

e

been

cov

ered

by

the

awareness-raisingactivities

•Numberof

head

s and

may

ors

of

mun

icip

aliti

es a

nd u

nion

s

of m

unic

ipal

ities

who

hav

e

take

n po

sitiv

e at

titud

es a

nd

po

sitio

ns to

war

ds th

e

elim

inat

ion

of th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

•Numberof

may

ors

who

hav

e

been

cov

ered

by

the

awareness-raisingactivities

•Numberof

may

ors

who

have

take

n po

sitiv

e at

titud

es

an

d po

sitio

ns to

war

ds th

e

elim

inat

ion

of th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

Hea

ds o

f m

unic

ipal

ities

and

uni

ons

of m

unic

ipal

ities

and

May

ors

are

mor

e aw

are

of a

nd a

re p

layi

ng a

n ac

tive

role

in

com

batin

g th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

.

59

Goa

l

Stra

tegi

c In

terv

enti

on 4

.8

Spec

ific

Obj

ectiv

e

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

1

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Setti

ng th

e cr

iteria

by

the

Nat

iona

l Ste

erin

g C

omm

ittee

aga

inst

C

hild

Lab

our f

or s

elec

ting

the

task

forc

es o

n di

ffer

ent c

hild

la

bour

rela

ted

issu

es.

Ens

ure

the

task

forc

es a

ttrac

t a n

umbe

r of

volu

ntee

rs fo

r trainingoncarryingoutawareness-raisingcampaigns.

Ens

ure

coop

erat

ion

and

coor

dina

tion

betw

een

the

task

forc

es

and

volu

ntee

rs o

n th

e on

e ha

nd a

nd lo

cal c

omm

unity

inst

itutio

ns

on th

e ot

her h

and.

Formafundingcommitteew

ithin

the

task

forc

es to

pro

vide

financialaidforcampaigns.

Followupthetaskforceplanswithinatime-boundscheduleand

eval

uate

the

achi

eved

resu

lts.

Com

mun

icat

e an

d co

ordi

nate

with

the

adm

inis

trat

ions

of

univ

ersi

ties,

scho

ols

and

tech

nica

l ins

titut

es, a

nd u

nion

s an

d st

uden

t bod

ies,

with

the

aim

of

impl

emen

ting

awar

enes

s ca

mpa

ign

on th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

.

1 2 3 4 5 6

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOL,MOSA

and

ME

HE

MO

L, MOSA

and

ME

HE

MOL,MOSA

and

ME

HE

MO

L, MOSA

and

ME

HE

MO

L, MOSA

and

ME

HE

MO

L, MOSA

and

ME

HE

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–I

PEC

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberof

m

embe

rs o

f ci

vil

so

ciet

y as

soci

atio

ns,

un

iver

sity

stu

dent

s

and

prof

esso

rs o

f

scho

ols

and

tech

nica

l ins

titut

es

th

at h

ave

been

trai

ned

in a

ll

Leba

nese

regi

ons

EliminatetheWFCLinLebanonby2016

Loca

l com

mun

ity a

nd c

omm

unity

lead

ers

Bytheendof2016,NGOsandlocalcommunitiesbecomeaware

of a

nd a

re e

ffec

tive

in e

limin

atin

g th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

in L

eban

on.

Taskforces,includingmembersofcivilsocietyassociations,Workers’AssociationsandEmployers,universitystudents

and

prof

esso

rs o

f sc

hool

s an

d te

chni

cal i

nstit

utes

, are

trai

ned

in a

ll Le

bane

se re

gion

s.

60

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

2

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

3

# #

Act

ivit

ies

Act

ivit

ies

Putuppostersanddistributepamphletsinmajor

mal

ls a

nd w

ithin

ent

erta

inm

ent c

entr

es.

Presentdocumentaryfilmsrelatedtothesubject

on g

iant

scr

eens

, esp

ecia

lly o

n th

e oc

casi

on o

f In

tern

atio

nal C

hild

ren’

s D

ay.

Hig

hlig

ht th

e is

sue

thro

ugh

tele

visi

on

prog

ram

mes

, SM

S, I

nter

net a

nd v

isua

l med

ia.

Cre

ate

spec

ial u

nits

spe

cial

ized

in th

e is

sue

at e

mpl

oyer

s’ as

soci

atio

ns a

nd th

e G

ener

al

ConfederationofLebaneseWorkers.

Enc

oura

ge th

e la

bour

uni

ons

to ta

ke a

ctio

n in

in

stan

ces

whe

re c

hild

ren

are

foun

d w

orki

ng in

a

way

that

is n

ot c

onsi

sten

t with

lega

l pro

visi

ons.

Com

mun

icat

e w

ith th

e ge

nera

l man

ager

of

the

NationalSocialSecurityFundasafirststepto

puttinguppostersinthe37officescoveringall

Leba

nese

dis

tric

ts.

1 2 3 1 2 3

Tim

elin

e

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOL,MOSA

and

ME

HE

MO

L, MOSA

and

ME

HE

MO

L, MOSA

and

ME

HE

MOL,NSSF

MOL,NSSF

MOL,NSSF

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–I

PEC

Indi

cato

rs

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberofawarenesssessionsthat

have

bee

n or

gani

zed

at u

nive

rsiti

es,

scho

ols,

tech

nica

l sch

ools,

ass

ocia

tions

an

d cl

ubs

•Numberof

trai

nees

who

par

ticip

ated

in

the

awar

enes

s se

ssio

ns th

at h

ave

been

org

aniz

ed a

t uni

vers

ities

, sch

ools,

te

chni

cal s

choo

ls, a

ssoc

iatio

ns a

nd c

lubs

•Numberofcommercialand

re

crea

tiona

l cen

tres

and

pub

lic p

lace

s

adop

ting

the

idea

of

awar

enes

s ra

isin

g

on th

e is

sue

of th

e el

imin

atio

n of

the

w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

•Numberofsyndicatesandlabour

un

ions

con

trib

utin

g to

the

awar

enes

s

sess

ions

on

elim

inat

ing

the

wor

st

fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur.

•NumberofofficesoftheNational

SocialSecurityFundadoptingand

implementingtheawareness-raising

to

ols.

Awarenessisraisedthroughcommercialandrecreationalcentresandpublicplacesandthroughsocialcommunication

mea

ns.

AwarenesscampaignsarecarriedoutthroughemployersandlabourunionsandofficesoftheNationalSocialSecurity

Fund.

61

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

4

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Inco

rpor

ate

the

issu

e of

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur in

to re

ligio

us s

peec

hes.

Dev

elop

and

dis

sem

inat

e m

anua

ls

show

ing

the

opin

ions

of

relig

ions

re

gard

ing

the w

orst

form

s of

child

labo

ur.

1 2

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOL,MOSA

and

ME

HE

MO

L, MOSA

and

ME

HE

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC,

UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, U

NE

SCO

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberofsocialcommunicationmeans

de

velo

ped

to a

ddre

ss th

e is

sue

of e

limin

atio

n of

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur.

•Numberofclericswhoincorporatedin

to th

eir

re

ligio

us s

peec

hes

the

issu

e of

the

wor

st fo

rms

of

chi

ld la

bour

•Numberofmaterialsdevelopedtos

how

the

op

inio

n of

relig

ions

rega

rdin

g th

e is

sue

of

el

imin

atin

g th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

Awarenessisraisedofchildlabouranditsworstformsamongandthroughreligiousleaders.

62

Goa

l

Stra

tegi

c In

terv

enti

on 4

.9

Spec

ific

Obj

ectiv

e

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

1

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Issueadecreeforestablishingaspecializedjuvenilepolice

whi

ch c

ontr

ibut

es to

the

prev

entio

n of

recr

uitm

ent o

f ch

ildre

n in

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur.

EstablishacentralofficefortheunitinBeirutandprovide

it w

ith th

e ne

cess

ary

faci

litie

s.

Em

pow

er a

ll ag

ents

of

the

spec

ializ

ed p

olic

e un

it w

ith

the

need

ed u

nder

stan

ding

and

app

ly t

he m

echa

nism

s an

d m

etho

ds o

f w

ork

base

d on

chi

ld r

ight

s an

d hu

man

rig

hts

conv

entio

ns.

Dev

elop

an

actio

n pl

an fo

r the

inte

rven

tion

of th

e po

lice

unit

in th

e ar

eas

witn

essi

ng p

reva

lenc

e of

chi

ldre

n in

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur.

1 2 3 4

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MO

IM

and

MO

L

MO

IM

and

MO

L

MO

IM

and

MO

L

MO

IM

and

MO

L

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

•Existenceofaspecialized

po

lice

unit

with

in th

e In

tern

al

SecurityForcestoprevent

th

e en

gage

men

t of

child

ren

in

the

wor

st fo

rms

of la

bour

•Numberofsecurityforces

w

ho h

ave

been

ent

rust

ed

w

ith th

e ta

sk o

f el

imin

atin

g

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur

EliminatetheWFCLinLebanonby2016

Prev

entio

n

Bytheendof2015,Lebanesesocietyacquiressolidandcoherent

prot

ectio

n m

echa

nism

s th

at a

re a

ble

to p

reve

nt

child

ren

from

eng

agin

g in

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur.

AspecializedjuvenilepoliceunitisformedwithintheInternalSecurityForcestopreventtheen-gagementof

child

ren

in th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

.

63

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

2

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

3

# #

Act

ivit

ies

Act

ivit

ies

Assignatleastonesocialworkertoeveryschool.

Activatetheroleof

pare

nts’

com

mitt

ees

in a

ddre

ssin

g th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

.

Info

rm c

hild

ren

abou

t the

ir rig

hts,

espe

cial

ly th

eir r

ight

to

educ

atio

n an

d th

eir r

ight

to b

e pr

otec

ted

from

the

wor

st

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

.

Rai

se a

war

enes

s of

the

conc

erne

d as

soci

atio

ns a

bout

chi

ld

right

s an

d ch

ild la

bour

.

Trai

n as

soci

atio

ns to

pre

pare

reha

bilit

atio

n pr

ogra

mm

es fo

r ch

ildre

n th

at e

nabl

e th

em to

atta

in c

erta

in s

kills

that

pre

vent

th

em fr

om b

eing

dra

wn

into

the

wor

st fo

rms o

f ch

ild la

bour

.

Buildthecapacitiesofsocialworkersonhowtocombatthe

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

wor

k an

d ra

ise

thei

r aw

aren

ess

of th

eir

role

s in

this

rega

rd.

Conductfieldvisitstomonitortheproblemsandtoprovide

appr

opria

te s

ervi

ces

for e

ach

case

on

the

basi

s of

the

appr

opria

te in

form

atio

n.

1 2 3 1 2 3 4

Tim

elin

e

Tim

elin

e

Bythemid

of2015

Bythe

mid

of2015

Bythe

mid

of2015

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bytheend

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

ME

HE

, M

OL

and

MOSA

ME

HE

, M

OL

and

MOSA

ME

HE

, M

OL

and

MOSA

MO

L an

d MOSA

MO

L an

d MOSA

MO

L an

d MOSA

MO

L an

d MOSA

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC,

UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC,

UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC,

UN

ESC

O

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberofschoolswith

in

crea

sed

capa

city

with

in

th

eir t

hree

mai

n el

emen

ts

(students,teachingstaff

an

d ad

min

istr

atio

n, in

clud

ing

parents’committees)on

pr

even

ting

child

ren

from

bein

g dr

awn

into

the

wor

st

fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur

•NumberofNGOsconcerned

w

ith p

rote

ctin

g ch

ildre

n fr

om

th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld

la

bour

•NumberofNGOtrainees

w

hose

cap

aciti

es h

ave

been

incr

ease

d

Thecapacityofschoolsisincreasedwithintheirthreemainelements(students,teachingstaffandschooladministration,

includingparents’committees)onpreventingchildrenfrombeingdrawnintotheworstformsoflabour.

The

cap

aciti

es o

f th

e co

ncer

ned

NG

Os a

re st

reng

then

ed in

pro

tect

ing

child

ren

from

the

wor

st fo

rms o

f ch

ild la

bour

.

64

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

4

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Trai

n la

bour

insp

ecto

rs a

nd p

rovi

de th

em

with

skill

s to

carr

y out

thei

r rol

e in

mon

itorin

g th

e im

plem

enta

tion

of th

e pr

ovis

ions

of

the

Leba

nese

Lab

our L

aw, e

spec

ially

Dec

ree

No.

898

7, w

hich

pro

hibi

ts u

sing

chi

ldre

n in

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur a

nd

haza

rdou

s w

ork.

Issu

e de

cree

s th

at c

over

the

full

man

date

of

insp

ectio

n on

chi

ld la

bour

and

pro

vide

in

spec

tors

with

spe

cial

tool

s to

impl

emen

t th

eir m

anda

te.

Em

pow

er th

e N

atio

nal E

mpl

oym

ent

Agencytoprovideemployment

oppo

rtun

ities

and

con

duct

trai

ning

for

pare

nts

of c

hild

ren

expo

sed

to th

e w

orst

fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur.

1 2 3

Tim

elin

e

Bythemid

of2015

Bythe

mid

of2015

Bythe

mid

of2015

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MO

L an

d NEA

MO

L an

d NEA

MO

L an

d NEA

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

ILO–I

PEC

ILO–I

PEC

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberofemploymentopportunitiesthat

ha

ve b

een

prov

ided

by

the

Nat

iona

l EmploymentAgencytotheparentsof

ch

ildre

n ex

pose

d to

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur

•Numberof

trai

ning

ses

sion

s th

at h

ave

been

orga

nize

d fo

r the

par

ents

of

child

ren

expo

sed

to

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur

•Numberof

empl

oyer

s w

hose

cap

abili

ties

on

pr

ovid

ing

empl

oym

ent o

ppor

tuni

ties

for t

he

pa

rent

s of

the

child

ren

expo

sed

to th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

hav

e be

en ra

ised

•Numberof

insp

ecto

rs w

hose

cap

acity

to

co

mba

t the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur h

as

be

en s

tren

gthe

ned

ThecapacityandroleoflabourinspectionauthoritiesandoftheNationalEmploymentAgencyisac-tivatedandits

capa

city

str

engt

hene

d in

the

area

of

prev

entin

g th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

.

65

Goa

l

Stra

tegi

c In

terv

enti

on 4

.10

Spec

ific

Obj

ectiv

e

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

1

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

2

# #

Act

ivit

ies

Act

ivit

ies

Com

pile

dat

a on

the

char

acte

ristic

s of

chi

ldre

n in

Leb

anon

, suc

h as

thei

r age

dis

trib

utio

n, n

atio

nalit

y, an

d ed

ucat

iona

l and

soc

ial

leve

ls.

Tran

sfer

chi

ldre

n ex

pose

d to

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur to

sp

ecia

lized

reha

bilit

atio

n ce

ntre

s.

Cre

ate

reha

bilit

atio

n ce

ntre

s th

at m

eet t

he n

eeds

of

child

ren

who

ha

ve b

een

with

draw

n fr

om th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

.

Com

mun

icat

e w

ith p

aren

ts, l

abou

r ins

pect

ors

and

the

InternalSecurityForcesonthewithdrawalprocess.

Developspecificre

com

men

datio

ns fo

r the

est

ablis

hmen

t ofrehabilitationcentresbasedontheidentifiedneedsand

dem

ands

of

the

child

ren.

Devisequestionnairestofindoutthefutureaspirationsof

child

ren.

Est

ablis

h a

spec

ializ

ed p

olic

e un

it w

ithin

the

Inte

rnal

SecurityForcestoworkonwithdrawingchildrenfromthe

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur.

1 2 3 1 2 3 4

Tim

elin

e

Tim

elin

e

Bythemid

of 2

014

Bythe

mid

of

201

4

Bythe

mid

of

201

4

Bythemid

of 2

014

Bythemid

of 2

014

Bythemid

of 2

014

Bythemid

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOLandCAS

MO

L andMOSA

MO

L andMOSA

MOL,MOSA

and

ME

HE

MOL,MOSA

and

ME

HE

MOL,MOSA

and

ME

HE

MOL,MOSA

and

ME

HE

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

Indi

cato

rs

•Geographical

lo

calit

ies

that

incl

ude

the

larg

est

nu

mbe

r of

child

ren

ex

pose

d to

the

wor

st fo

rms

of

ch

ild la

bour

de

term

ined

.

•Numberofchildrenwho

ha

ve b

een

with

draw

n

from

the

wor

st fo

rms

of

ch

ild la

bour

who

hav

e ha

d

thei

r vie

ws

docu

men

ted

•Numberofquestionnaires

co

mpl

eted

to d

eter

min

e

the

futu

re a

spira

tions

of

ch

ildre

n w

ho h

ave

been

with

draw

n fr

om th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

EliminatetheWFCLinLebanonby2016

Withdrawal

Bytheendof2016,allchildrenexposedtotheworstformsofchildla

bour

hav

e be

en w

ithdr

awn.

The

geo

grap

hica

l loc

aliti

es th

at in

clud

e th

e la

rges

t num

bers

of

child

ren

expo

sed

to th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

ar

e de

term

ined

.

The

futu

re a

spira

tions

of

child

ren

who

hav

e be

en w

ithdr

awn

from

the

wor

st fo

rms o

f ch

ild la

bour

are

ack

now

ledg

ed.

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

3

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Ena

ble

coor

dina

tion

com

mitt

ees

to ta

ke c

harg

e of

in

vest

igat

ing

the

loca

tions

of

child

wor

kers

.

Ens

ure

com

mitt

ees

play

a r

ole

in r

aisi

ng a

war

enes

s w

ithin

the

int

erna

l bo

dies

of

mun

icip

aliti

es,

civi

l so

ciet

y or

gani

zatio

ns a

nd o

ther

s.

Raisetheprofileoftheroleo

f co

mm

ittee

s th

roug

h m

obili

zing

pub

lic o

pini

on to

dra

w a

ttent

ion

to th

e is

sue.

1 2 3

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MOL,MOSA

and

MO

IM

MO

L, MOSA

and

MO

IM

MO

L, MOSA

and

MO

IM

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberofcoordinatingcommittees

th

at h

ave

been

est

ablis

hed

to a

id

co

ordi

natio

n be

twee

n th

e la

bour

asso

ciat

ions

, em

ploy

ers’

or

gani

zatio

ns, c

ivil

soci

ety,

m

unic

ipal

ities

and

uni

ons

of

m

unic

ipal

ities

, the

Int

erna

l Sec

urity

Forcesandinspectorsfromthe

M

inis

try

of L

abou

r.

Com

mitt

ees a

re e

stab

lishe

d to

aid

coo

rdin

atio

n be

twee

n th

e la

bour

ass

ocia

tions

, em

ploy

ers’

orga

niza

tions

, civ

il so

ciet

y, municipalitiesandunionsofmunicipalities,theInternalSecurityForcesandinspectorsfromtheMinistryofLabour.

66

Goa

l

Stra

tegi

c In

terv

enti

on 4

.11

Spec

ific

Obj

ectiv

e

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

1

#A

ctiv

itie

s

Dev

elop

the

mec

hani

sm b

y w

hich

the

Min

istr

y of

Soc

ial

Affairsshallsetuprehabilitationcentres.

Dev

elop

an

actio

n pl

an f

or r

ehab

ilita

ting

child

ren

who

hav

e be

en e

xpos

ed to

the

wor

st fo

rms o

f ch

ild la

bour

in L

eban

on.

Con

duct

a ra

pid

asse

ssm

ent s

urve

y to

iden

tify

the

cate

gorie

s of

chi

ldre

n m

ost

expo

sed

to t

he w

orst

for

ms

of

child

labo

ur.

Dev

ise

a lo

gist

ical

pro

gram

me

for o

rgan

izin

g a

num

ber o

f sp

ecia

lists

trai

ned

in p

sych

olog

ical

and

soc

ial s

uppo

rt.

Com

mun

icat

e w

ith th

e co

ncer

ned

cent

res

rega

rdin

g th

eir

inte

grat

ion

into

the

educ

atio

nal p

rogr

amm

e.

Com

mun

icat

e w

ith th

e pa

rent

s of

wor

king

chi

ldre

n fo

r thepurposeofstudyingthesocio-economicconditions

of th

e fa

mili

es to

whi

ch c

hild

ren

belo

ng a

nd b

ringi

ng th

e at

tent

ion

of th

e pa

rent

s to

the

nece

ssity

of

reha

bilit

atin

g th

eir c

hild

ren.

Set u

p a

mon

itorin

g an

d ev

alua

tion

com

mitt

ee to

follo

w u

p th

e re

habi

litat

ion

proc

ess.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Tim

elin

e

Bytheend

of 2

013

Bythemid

of 2

014

Bythemid

of 2

014

Bythe

mid

of

201

4

Bythe

mid

of

201

4

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Bythe

end

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MO

L an

d MOSA

MO

L an

d MOSA

MO

L an

d MOSA

MO

L an

d MOSA

MO

L an

d MOSA

MO

L an

d MOSA

MO

L an

d MOSA

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–IPEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

andUNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberofprofessional

re

habi

litat

ion

cent

res

that

have

bee

n es

tabl

ishe

d th

at

pr

ovid

e so

cial

reha

bilit

atio

n

serv

ices

to c

hild

ren

who

have

bee

n w

ithdr

awn

from

the

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur

•Numberofchildrenwho

havebenefitedfromthe

pr

ofes

sion

al re

habi

litat

ion

ce

ntre

s

EliminatetheWFCLinLebanonby2016

Reh

abili

tatio

n

Bytheendof2016,allchildrenwhohavebeenwithdrawnfromthe

wor

st fo

rms

of c

hild

labo

ur in

Leb

anon

hav

e beenrehabilitatedinprofessionalrehabilitationcentresestablishedinvariousLeba-neseregions,bythemid-2014,to

prov

ide

psyc

holo

gica

l, he

alth

and

soc

ial s

ervi

ces

to a

ll ch

ildre

n w

ho h

ave

been

with

draw

n fr

om th

e w

orst

form

s of

ch

ild la

bour

.

Soci

al re

habi

litat

ion

of a

ll ch

ildre

n w

ho h

ave

been

with

draw

n fr

om th

e w

orst

form

s of

child

labo

ur h

as b

een

achi

eved

.

67

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

2

Exp

ecte

d ou

tcom

e #

3

# #

Act

ivit

ies

Act

ivit

ies

Formacommitteeofdoctorsto

follo

w u

p th

e m

edic

al re

habi

litat

ion

proc

ess.

Coo

rdin

ate

with

the

Min

istr

y of

Pu

blic

Hea

lth in

ord

er to

pro

vide

he

alth

cov

erag

e.

Formacommitteeincluding

psyc

holo

gist

s an

d so

cial

wor

kers

to

follo

w u

p th

e ps

ycho

logi

cal

reha

bilit

atio

n pr

oces

s.

1 2 1

Tim

elin

e

Tim

elin

e

Bythemid

of 2

014

Bythe

mid

of

201

4

Bythemid

of 2

014

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

Res

pons

ible

in

stit

utio

ns

MO

L,

MO

PH a

nd

MOSA

MO

L,

MO

PH a

nd

MOSA

MO

L,

MO

PH a

nd

MOSA

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

Supp

orti

ng

inst

itut

ions

ILO–IPEC,

WHOand

UNICEF

ILO–I

PEC

, WHOand

UNICEF

ILO–IPEC,

WHOand

UNICEF

Indi

cato

rs

Indi

cato

rs

•Numberofprofessionalrehabilitationcentresthat

ha

ve b

een

esta

blis

hed

that

pro

vide

hea

lth re

habi

litat

ion

se

rvic

es to

all

child

ren

who

hav

e be

en w

ithdr

awn

fr

om th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

•Numberofchildrenwhohavebenefitedfromthe

pr

ofes

sion

al re

habi

litat

ion

cent

res

•Numberofprofessionalrehabilitationcentresthat

ha

ve b

een

esta

blis

hed

that

pro

vide

psy

chol

ogic

al

se

rvic

es to

all

child

ren

who

hav

e be

en w

ithdr

awn

fr

om th

e w

orst

form

s of

chi

ld la

bour

•Numberofchildrenwhohavebenefitedfromthe

pr

ofes

sion

al re

habi

litat

ion

cent

res

Med

ical

reha

bilit

atio

n of

all c

hild

ren

who

hav

e be

en w

ithdr

awn

from

the

wor

st fo

rms o

f ch

ild la

bour

has

bee

n ac

hiev

ed.

Psyc

holo

gica

l reh

abili

tatio

n of

all c

hild

ren

who

hav

e bee

n w

ithdr

awn

from

the w

orst

form

s of

child

labo

ur h

as b

een

achi

eved

.

68

Ministry of Labor Chiyah Highway - Moucharafieh

Baabda - LebanonHot Line: 1740

Telephone: 01-556801 / 01-556803 / 01-556804Fax: 01-556808

E-mail: ministry@labor.gov.lb Website: www.labor.gov.lb