Improve access to (quality) education, bridge schooling, and youth employment
- Piloting social safety nets to 2100 households.
- Establishing 346 village Savings and Credit Associations in 173 villages for vulnerable families.
- Developing income generating activities for 2000 vulnerable families.
- Extend the detection mechanisms and early detection of violence and child labour in the project zone.
- Strengthening the protection platform for children (focus on psychosocial, medical and legal care) and identifying host/foster families.
- Creating and extending gateway classes in primary and secondary schools.
- Equipping schools with materials for quality education
Enforce relevant child-rights based laws and implement policies
- Research the perception of youth on child labour, and organize live chats on children’s rights and child labour.
- Implementing a youth programme to strengthen youth leadership and participation.
- Train 25 social workers and labour inspectors on the prevention and management of child victims of violence and exploitation.
- Train 25 law enforcement professionals on children’s rights and case management of child victims of violence and exploitation.
- Prepare an advocacy note for the government to increase the budget for social action services and organize advocacy sessions.
- Organize meetings to exchange experiences between Mali and Cote d’Ivoire.
Prevent and address child labour in supply chains
- Strengthen the capacities of certification, standardization companies and accredited firms on children’s rights and in particular child labour.
- Train cooperative societies in governance and children’s rights.
- Technically support private sector actors in the development and implementation of an internal action plan for the prevention, mitigation, remediation and elimination of child labour in the cocoa value chain.
- Technically support the generation of evidence on the impact of health, water, sanitation and nutrition on the vulnerability of farmers and on child labour.
- Organize a study on children’s rights in the gold mining sector.
- Advocacy for taking children’s rights into account in the government’s strategy to streamline gold mining.