Project Impact

Last updated: 30.09.05

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
  • For budget year 2005/2006 the District council has set aside TZS 4'000'000 (USD 3'600) to coordinate child labour activities within the district
  • The impact of the project has encouraged the Government of Tanzania, Ministry of Education, to fund the construction of additional classrooms
AWARENESS-RAISING
 As a direct consequence of and in addition to the project: 
  • Tanzania Tobacco Leaf has printed 1’200 t-shirts on child labour
  • Association of Tanzania Tobacco Traders has prepared and printed 10’000 leaflets on child labour
  • Tanzania Tobacco Board has prepared contracts to be signed by the growers which stipulates the prohibition of using child labour
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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Progress beyond target was made