Children in the Transport Sector in Nepal: Child Labour Status Report
Due to increased urbanization in Nepal, child labor in the transportation sector has emerged as a major social challenge; children work long hours to operate vehicles in highly polluted environments. This status report highlights the program’s efforts to provide education opportunities such as vocational training and school scholarships for child transport workers. The booklet offers practical information about the programs best practices, successful approaches and major challenges. Part of a series that comprises the final report funded by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Formal Education to Address Child Labor in Nepal: Strategies Report
Worldwide, keeping children in formal school and out of working situations has been one the most successful strategies for ending child labor. Under the program, World Education has created scholarship programs and Parent Teacher Associations to enable even the poorest children to receive a formal education. This status report focuses on scholarship support programs and successful approaches for reintegrating working children into school. The booklet also includes lessons learned and best practices for coaching classes, mobilizing parents, improving governance, planning curricula, financing schools, and building teacher capacity. Part of a series of thematic strategies reports that combine with a series of status reports to comprise the final report funded by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Improved Family Livelihoods to Address Child Labor in Nepal: Strategies Report
This booklet outlines the strategies to address family poverty in order to help children avoid child labor. Strategies include advice on developing education programs, increasing microfinance access for marginalized households, and helping families to build self-help groups, establish new urban livelihoods, and solidify community networks, savings and credit. This report highlights World Education’s approaches, lessons learned, impact, and a cost benefit analysis by district. Part of a series of thematic strategies reports that combine with a series of status reports to comprise the final report funded by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Nonformal Education to Address Child Labor: Strategies Report
Flexible programs offering a range of levels and approaches are needed to transition younger children to the formal education system and to prepare older children for vocational education. This report looks at Nepal’s background in nonformal education and the initiatives that World Education’s program developed for working children and children-at-risk. The document features success stories, best practices and future directions for the various programs: Matching learners with curricula, Girls Access to Education (GATE), curriculum development, flexible schooling, bridging to formal education, ethnic and regional considerations, open learning centers, facilitator training, microfinance. Part of a series of thematic strategies reports that combine with a series of status reports to comprise the final report funded by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Vocational Education to Address Child Labor in Nepal: Strategies Report
For many children in Nepal, vocational training is often the best option to escape exploitative labor situations. This report highlights approaches that the program uses to provide working children with access to vocational education programs, apprenticeships, and career-planning workshops. The booklet also includes information about self-employment and economic education programs (SEEP), life skills, girls in adult entertainment, agro-forestry and rural livelihoods, challenges, lessons learned, and success stories. Part of a series of thematic strategies reports that combine with a series of status reports to comprise the final report by the U.S. Department of Labor.