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Kathmandu Wednesday February 28, 2001 Falgun 17, 2057.
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Strategy to curb child labour stressed
Post Report
BIRATNAGAR, Feb 27 – Participants at the fifth consultative meeting
organized by International Labour Organisation (ILO) International Programme on the
Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) stressed on the need to formulate multi-pronged
strategy to address the problem of child labour in the country.
The meeting reached to a consensus that the local bodies should allocate a
certain percentage of their annual budget for the development of the children in the area
and for the establishment of child labour coordination committee at the District
Development Committee (DDC) and VDC level.
The two-day meeting participated by over 25 representatives from the district
authorities of eastern development region, Non-Government Organizations and trade unions,
which ended in Biratnagar today was organized by IPEC with the objective of formulating
the Time Bound Programme (TBP) to combat the Worst Forms of Child Labour.
The participants recognized that the problem of exploitation of child labour
posed a serious threat to the development of the society and that the TBP should be
integrated with other existing programmes that are currently underway in the districts.
"The five consultative meetings will give us a clear picture on types of
child labour prevalent in the country and how we should go about with our programme,"
said Yadav Amatya, National Programme Manager, IPEC.
The ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention No. 182 is expected to be
presented to the on-going session of Parliament for ratification. The workshop made an
attempt to find ways of convergence of services, networking with the NGOs and capacity
building of the partners.
Earlier addressing the inaugural session of the workshop, Leyla Tegmo-Reddy,
Director, ILO emphasized on the need to put special focus on the girlchild, adding,
"the success of TBP depends on how best we tackle the problem of intra-and
inter-country trafficking of children in the country." She also informed that ILO is
holding a workshop devoted to gender issues and child labour in the first week of March in
order to seek their suggestions in the fight against child labour in the country.
"We need to formulate the programmes not only to address the problem of
child labour but also to address socio-economic situation of the country," said
Ramesh Chandra Poudel, Mayor, Biratnagar Sub-metropolis.
Nepal is one of the three pilot countries to implement the TBP on the
elimination of worst forms of child labour. The other two countries are El Salvador from
South America and Tanzania from Africa.
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