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Initial Project
Document: Elimination of Child Labour in Tobacco-Growing in Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2007 |
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Implementing partner
Working Group on the elimination of child labour in Kyrgyzstan
Working Group composed of
AWU (agricultural unions) as Chair, Dimon/Alliance One, Reemtsma/Imperial, Kyrgyz national
tobacco company, Unicef, ILO/IPEC, Save the children, Child Protection Centre, Health and
Education Workers’ union, Ministry of Agriculture representative, Ministry of Labour and Social
development.
Location
Districts of Alabuka (Djalalabad province) and Nookat (Osh province)
Budget
January 2005 to March 2009 (4 years): USD 275’500
Including USD 75’000 as revolving credit fund (repayable with 8% interest)
Objective
Fight child labour via
- Access to a cheap credit scheme for farmers (to increase their income)
- Access to social activities and support
- Awareness raising on child labour
Overall target
Around 1000 children reached in total
Directly, 600 via the credit scheme
300 via summer camps, 300 supported with clothes and schooling material
Estimate of 5’000 tobacco growing families, or 15’000 school going age children, in the area
Project achievements
- 1’950 children, 620 families reached directly
- via the credit scheme
- social support and activities (summer camps)
- 40 Mutual Aid Groups set up
- 8’438 children and 5’588 families reached via sensitising and social activities
- Estimate of 5’000 tobacco growing families, or 15’000 school going age children, in the project areas)
- MAGs reorganised their field work reviving the traditional self-help “Ashar” method in order to comply with the no child labour rule.
- Social workers replicate the project dynamic outside the project (without the project financial support)
- Teachers are stricter with absenteeism, esp. during agricultural high activity periods and tobacco harvest
Concerns
- Migration of both farmers’ families and children to work on tobacco fields, from Uzbekistan, or onto Kazakhstan
- Advocacy, influence on legislation, and beyond field work and project areas
- Baseline survey and reference line for comparison of child labour evolution on the long term
Quick facts last updated: March 2009
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