The International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) was launched in 1992. It is considered the biggest technical cooperation of the
ILO .
The Program operates in 88 countries on 190 field projects with the financial support of
member states and private sponsors (companies and natural persons). The original main goal of the
IPEC is more than ambitious: eliminate the worst forms of child labour by 2016 at the
latest. The IPEC’s approach is revolutionnary, it breakes the traditional role of an international
organisation to verify and apply sanctions against member states which are not able to comply
with the conventions but try to help them to implement policies in the reality. And quick and
efficient implementation is crucial while children at work are much more exposed to biological and chemical hazards than their not working counterparts and the risk of verbal and
sexual abuse is more common among them as well.
To pursue its mandate, IPEC relies on tripartite cooperation. Apart from trade unions and
employer’s organizations, the Programme co-works and communicates with other international
and national institutions, NGO’s, universities and the media. Among the countries targeted by
IPEC we hardly could find other developed countries than Bulgaria and Romania. It is seems
that the main asset in the fight against child labour in developed countries is not the IPEC but national policies.
To be continued.
A previous version of the whole study can be found here
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