Project Impact

Last updated: 11.12.06


Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco Growing, Zambia


Overall
amount


Population
target


Target
region

USD 616'603

25'000 individuals
3'600 households
1'000 children

25 villages
Mbala and Tara area,
Choma district



Project
period



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Activities


Target
   
Child labour and prevention committees
 
Drama groups
 
Radio programmes
 
Printed materials
 
Sensitisation meetings
 
Training of medical personnel
 
Training of community-based counsellors
 
Counsellor information sessions
 
Training of peer educators
 
Peer educator information sessions
 
Training of traditional healers and headmen
 
Communication materials
 
Enrolment of children in preschools
 
PRESCHOOLS
Construction of preschools
 
Recruitment of schoolteachers
 
School materials for all preschools
 
School materials for primary schools
 
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Sports and recreation facilities
 
Access to water
 
Renovation of school infrastructure
 
Scholarships for pupils from poor households
 
Training of adult literacy facilitators
 
YOUNG
ADULTS
Literacy classes for young adults
 
Skills training scholarships
 
Setting up a revolving fund
 
 
Training of credit committee members
 
Disbursement of cash loans
 
Training in small-scale farming techniques: irrigation
 
Training in small-scale farming techniques: food production
 
Livestock rearing revolving fund
 
Creation of a farmers’ cooperative
 
NOTES

HEALTH


  • The nine medical personnel are composed of 2 environmental technicians, 4 nurses, 1 doctor, 1 clinical officer and 1 family planning nurse

EDUCATION


  • The Ministry of Education is engaged to provide eight qualified teachers to the four preschools as a sustainable measure to ensure that these schools continue running even after the life span of the project
SOURCE INFORMATION DATE
  • Factsheet update November 2006
  • Factsheet update February 2006

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.