Tony’s Open Chain’s CLMRS
Selection of community facilitators: Gender- and age-balanced community members committed to child protection are recruited by the partner cooperatives. Household visits: Facilitators conduct annual visits to discuss child labour activities (based on national legislation and in line with ILO standards) with families, survey all children under 18 and collect data via a mobile app. Unannounced farm visits are also conducted for additional monitoring. Child labour identification: 95% of cases are identified through open conversations with children and their families. Facilitators immediately conduct a needs assessment to identify the appropriate remediation support and validate their data with the Monitoring and Remediation Agent at the partner cooperative. Remediation activities: Remediation is coordinated by the partner cooperatives and may include providing birth certificates, school kits or bicycles, or, in more complex cases, access to labour support, or vocational training and mentorship. Follow-up and case closure: Facilitators conduct follow-up visits at 3 and 6 months to assess remediation effectiveness. If the child is not working during these visits, the case is closed, with annual monitoring continuing until the child turns 18.
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Selection of community facilitators
Household visits
Child labour identification
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child labour monitoring and remediation system
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Follow-up visits and case closure
Individual remediation activities
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3 months and 6 months after remediation activities, thereafter annual monitoring
9-18 months for the majority of cases but up to 2 years or more when cases are complex
In practice, the implementation of this kind of effective, locally owned CLMRS requires significant commitment, time and investment from our partner cooperatives. We asked Aïcha Situonon Gboritcha, a Community Facilitator at ECOJAD in Côte d’Ivoire, to share a little about what a day in her role typically looks like. Read her story on the next pages.
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