Baseline Survey: Report for ICLEP 1 project phase	18.09.08
			WDACL 2007: Malawi Project - activities for the World Day Against Child Labour	12.07.07
			Initial Project Document: ICLEP 2 Program, 2006-2008	21.05.07
			First phase: ICLEP 1 Program, 2002-2006

ECLT in MALAWI
ICLEP 2
Integrated Child Labour Elimination Program

Implementing partner
Coordination: Creccom, since July 2008
Field implementing partners: Creccom (Education and awareness), TLC (Food security), Nkhoma Development and Relief (Water and sanitation), Lifeline Malawi (Health)
ICLEP programme period July 2002 – June 2010 (phases 1 and 2)

Steering Committee composed of
Ministry of Labour, Limbe Leaf (Universal), Alliance One, Africa Leaf (Tribac), Growers association (TAMA), Unions (MCTU and Totawum), ILO/IPEC Malawi

Location
Kasungu and Dowa districts, on commercial estates as well as on smallholdings

Budget
Phase 1, 2002-2006; USD 2,6 million
Phase 2, 2006-2010; USD 4 millions over 4 years; formal approval for 2 years, reaching 12 to 14’000 children

Objective
Reduce child labour amongst target population via

• Awareness raising and community mobilisation
• Access to quality education
• Improvement of living conditions - food security and soil conservation, clean water and sanitation, provision of health services for treatment and prevention of illness

Overall target
By the end of the project 13,500 vulnerable children in 200 villages will have been protected or withdrawn from child labour. This means that 48% of the overall child population in the project area (28,000) will directly benefit from project activities and will be protected or withdrawn from child labour.

Project achievements

• Baseline survey showing

36% of children from tobacco growing families are undertaking tobacco related work for long hours, i.e. more than 14 hrs a week, synonymous of child labour. This proportion goes up to 43% in the 6 to 11 years old age range.

One third of the children from tobacco growing families are exposed to hazardous tasks.
Globally 57% of all children are involved in an activity indicative of child labour (more than 14 hrs weekly, with remuneration, causing school absenteeism, or undertaking hazardous tasks). For tobacco growing families it raises to 63% and for non tobacco growing families it goes “down” to 51%. 12% of the children were injured or sick because of work.
Survey link: http://www.eclt.org/filestore/MalawiICLEP1_Baseline.pdf

• Education and awareness raising

Schools, double classroom blocks

• 10 built, 16 rehabilitated, at project initiative (as planned)
• 4 blocks built; 2 under construction
• 13 class room blocks + 1 secondary school Hall rehabilitated at communities’
  initiative (self-help, partial support from the small grant fund, or on own communities’ effort)
  

Teachers’ houses

• 10 built, 2 rehabilitated, on the project
• 15 built at communities’ initiative

More at community’s initiative

• 18 pit latrines
• Skills training in carpentry, tinsmith, tailoring/sewing
  • Important in-kind, in-cash, labour contributions for all activities

More on the project

• 55 pit latrines
• 14 teachers’ houses kitchens
• 1 secondary school admin block
• 1 secondary school library
• 51 secondary school bursaries provided
• 119 teachers trained on pedagogical skills
• 600 desks
• 960 text books provided
• 230 CLC members (Child Labour Committee) and 127 SMC/PTA members (School Management Committees, Parents Teachers Association) and caregivers trained on child labour
• 330 community leaders + 120 farm/estate owners, trained on child labour and drew action plans

Education

• 1,466 children (896 boys: 570 girls; cumulatively) withdrawn and enrolled in schools
• 64 teachers trained on project approach, CL issues and quality education

• Food security and soil conservation
  • In 833 villages reached (planned 200) with 9510 villagers participating (planned 6,000)
  • 167 treadle pumps installed, 95 ha, growing maize, leafy vegetables, beans, wheat, etc…
  • 633 tree nurseries, over 1,6 million seedlings produced; over 1,2 million trees planted (further planting in progress)
  • Natural tree regeneration, trees left in the fields, traditional bamboos, erosion control
  • 4 small scales dams for irrigation year round and water table recharge
  • 16 Field days, training sessions, demonstration meetings, on: nurseries, improved fallow, soil fertility and nitrogen fixing plants, nutrition and food preparation, food crops diversification, wood saving technologies (stoves), reaching 425 p.
  • 900 people from 19 villagers reached on soil/water conservation techniques

 

• Water and sanitation with Nkhoma Relief and Development
  • 263 villages reached with 166 water points
  • 9 Boreholes (6 in 2007/08: 3 in 2008/09) sunk
  • 7 boreholes rehabilitation of defunct boreholes (not sunk by ICLEP but in the impact area) – rehabilitation in progress
  • Chlorination (in relation with 30 health surveillance posts)
  • Committee members trained for self management of water points and sanitation facilities, common health and watsan committees: 120 members (73 women: 47 men; further trainings in progress)
  • 20 maintenance personnel trained have undergone refresher course
  • 2 supervisors
  • Eco-san toilets demonstration, producing cheap garden manure; but budget limitations for implementation

 

• Health and prevention

Outreach clinic:

• 60 volunteers and 40 health and water committee members trained +
• Another 10 outreach posts established
• 14’609 patients attended to
• Pattern of diseases; for the period up to Dec ’08: 22% malaria (previous period 35%), 21% respiratory diseases (25%), 18% musculoskeletal pains (relating to poverty, to manual labour…) (10%)

Static clinic:

• Close to 55’000 consultations, same disease pattern
• Under five y.o. clinic: disease pattern: 46% malaria, 22% respiratory diseases, 16% pneumonia.
• Antenatal clinics developed with existing gov; Kasese clinic maternity (Lifeline Alberta funded) to open shortly
• Counselling, HIV/VTC: 4,501 total clients tested (32% female: 48% male) – 376 reactive (244 male, 132 female, 8%)

 

• General
  • Strong field implementers
  • Interactions between the partners with a common focus on child labour
  • On-going dynamic in previous ICLEP1 communities
  • District authorities and concerned departments directly involved
  • Project Steering Committee, chaired by PS of Labour

Concerns:
Program review to take place during the second half of 2009.
Survey follow up to take place in 2009-2010 for comparison with 2006 Baseline data.
The coordination partner, not matching ECLT expectations, was changed; Creccom took over from July 2008 on.

Quick facts last updated: March 2009