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Establish or participate in a task force or
committee on child labour in representative
employers’ organizations at the local, state or
national level.
Support and help design educational/vocational
training and counselling programmes for working
children, and skills training for parents of working
children.
Encourage and assist in launching supplementary
health and nutrition programmes for children
removed from dangerous work, and provide
medical care to cure children of occupational
diseases and malnutrition.
4.2.6 Development partners
Development partners are both international
and local non-governmental organizations
as well as (inter)national organizations with a
focus on development issues. The following
recommendations are directed at development
partners:
Ensure that child labour issues with regard to
livestock are mainstreamed into development
programmes and projects.
Support initiatives that aim to improve school
attendance within rural areas, for example,
increasing access to quality and affordable
education relevant to the community.
Support governments in the design and
implementation of particular policies and actions
with regard to child labour and within general
poverty alleviation strategies.
Monitor child labour issues at the community
level and support the development and
institutionalization of child labour monitoring
systems and databases.
Undertake and support research on child labour
in the livestock sector, including providing
support in risk assessments and defining
countries’ lists of hazardous work for children.
Initiate and support awareness raising and
campaigning on education and child labour,
especially its worst forms.
Produce specific sensitization material on child
labour in the livestock sector and transfer it
through suitable channels.
4.2.7 FAO
It is recommended that FAO:
Continue to raise awareness on child labour
in the livestock sector within FAO and in FAO
member countries to promote actions in
areas where FAO has a specific mandate and
comparative advantage to help prevent and
reduce child labour in agriculture, for example,
supporting poverty alleviation as a specific and
targeted means of reducing child labour.
Contribute to building stakeholders’ capacity
to mainstream child labour in livestock into
agricultural and rural development policies,
programmes, projects and activities in order to
create an enabling environment for child labour
reduction and prevention.
Support the development and implementation
of primary (and secondary) school curricula that
are relevant to the rural and agricultural context
and pastoralist societies.
Work with partners to promote existing
good practices (e.g. integrated area-based
approaches to child labour prevention), develop
related tools and explore in which specific
situations alternative livestock practices, such as
community-managed herding and child labour
rangeland management, can be useful for
reducing child labour.
More actively address child labour in its ongoing
work on livestock, for example in the work
undertaken in the context of governance of the
livestock sector.
Promote decent rural employment, particularly
for youth, turning situations of hazardous
child labour into conditions for decent youth
employment.
Contribute to reducing the knowledge gap in
child labour in the livestock sector by supporting
research initiatives on the issue, especially with
regard to the worst forms of child labour in this
sector and the exact hazards and risks related to
particular work activities.
Actively expand collaboration within established
structures (e.g. with the ILO and the IPCCLA) and
seek new links with international organizations
(including those of the United Nations) to work
together on the prevention and elimination of
child labour, especially the worst forms, in the
livestock sector.