Project Impact

Last updated: 27.03.06


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
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Activities


Target
   
Child protection councils strenghtening
Parent & youth orientation meetings
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Educational assistance to child labourers and at-risk children
Alternative livelihood assistance
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Basic management entreprenural training
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MID-TERM EVALUATION
  • Mid-term evaluation conducted in April 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
  • Factsheet update September 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.

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