Cambodians EXCEL Project

NATIONAL PARTNER FORUM

‘Together as Partnrs

to eliminate child labor’ September 13, 2016

Agenda• Project overview• Achievements • Key project learning• Future plans

Project overview EliminatingeXploitative Child labor through Education and Livelihoods

Goal:

Reduce exploitative child labor in agriculture, fishery and

domestic work

Project overview7 provinces28,000 children14,000 households

US$11,000,000

December 2012 - December 2016

Partners• NGO partners

• Government partners• Community partners• Funding

– United States Department of Labor

Major strategies• Education

– Sponsorship, formal & informal education

– Vocational training– Support to

school and teacher development

Major strategies• Livelihoods

– Agricultural and non-agricultural training

– Start up andsaving groupsupport

Major strategies• Advocacy

– Support to development of law & policy

– Awarenessraising andcapacitybuilding

Project achievements• Education

27742 scholarships

6450 catch up students

3385 children in peer tutoring

Project achievements• Livelihoods 6686 households

livelihood support

7345 saving group members

Project achievementsChildren reached with edu-

cation servicesFormal education

Informal education

Vocational trainingHouseholds reached with

livelihood services

0 10000 20000 30000 40000

29544

27742

8589

1273

13983

Target

Project achievements• Capacity Building and Advocacy

Child friendly school manualWorld Day against

Child Labor

Social fund groups

Key project learning• Local structures and monitoring

of child labor are essential to elimination

• Awareness raising at national and local level significantly changes acceptance of child labor

• Migration is a huge challenge to keeping children safe

• Strong local economies can help tackle need for child labor and migration

Remaining activities• Support finalisation of National

Action Plan II on the Worst Forms of child labor

• Cooperate with Fishery Administration to launch and disseminate CL guidelines

• Complete work on savings groups• Support finalisation of Child

Labor Monitoring System• Final evaluation and share

learning

Sustainability• National level

– National Sub-Committee on Child Labor

– National Action Plan– Fisheries guidelines– Child labor

monitoring system– Child domestic work

guidelines

Sustainability• Local level

– Province committees on child labor– Commune committees (CCWC/

CLMS)– Community

Social Fund Groups– Community

Watch Groups