Project Impact

Last updated: 07.03.05

Combating Hazardous Child Labour in tobacco-farming in Urambo District (with ILO/IPEC/COMAGRI) Tanzania


Overall
amount


Population
target


Target
region

USD 558'000

250 families
1’000 children

25 villages in Urambo district



Project
period



Activities


Target
   
Workshops & seminars
Overall number of children targeted
Withdrawal from labour & reintegration into school
 
Children attending vocational training centres
 
Construction of classrooms
 
Complimentary Basic Education (COBET)
Training
Activities
 
NOTES
GENERAL
  • Project manager is stationed in Urambo: this has greatly facilitated contacts with the local stakeholders and authorities, as well as with the tobacco companies and tobacco growers' association
SOURCE INFORMATION DATE
  • February 2005
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.