Project Impact

Last updated: 07.03.05

Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco-growing Industry (ECLTI), Philippines


Overall amount	Population target	Target region
PHP 5'040'000 USD 110'000	2'000 people 100 children 100 families	30 villages 5 municipalities (barangays)
Project period


Activities		Target



	Child protection councils strenghtening
	Parent & youth orientation meetings

	Educational assistance to child labourers and at-risk children

	Alternative livelihood assistance
	Basic management entreprenural training

MID-TERM EVALUATION		Not initially planned as the project period was short As project is extended until March 2006, ECLT decided to carry out evaluation in February 2005 (results due in March 2005)


NOTES
GENERAL	A regional committee has been set up with representatives of government (8 Departments, including Labour and Employment, Agriculture (National Tobacco Administration), Education and Health), corporate sector (5 companies, including Philip Morris Int.) and trade unions (National Federation of Labour Unions) Principal problem is school attendance, in particular during the tobacco peak season Spill-over effect on siblings; overall reach estimated at 300-500 children With awareness-raising more children will be reached but this is not yet quantifiable

SOURCE INFORMATION DATE	December 2004

Numbers are to be used with caution; they are provided as quantitative measurement at a given time. Communities’ changes of attitude concerning child labour are difficult to quantify.