The Work: No Child’s Business programme aims to address the increasingly urgent need to fight child labour by ensuring that children and youth are free from child labour and enjoy their rights to quality education and (future) decent work. In addition to socio-cultural norms, poverty, social exclusion and discrimination, poorly functioning child protection systems, laws and/or law enforcement, lack of decent work for adults, failing labour inspections – poorly functioning education systems are one of the main root causes of child labour. To address child labour and ensure children enjoy their rights to quality education (and future decent work), we must address the gaps in education systems and infrastructure.
This paper zooms in on approaches to mainstreaming child labourers and out of school children (back) into formal education. Throughout the WNCB programme, inspiring approaches to lead to this outcome have been undertaken across all six countries. In this paper we share and highlight examples from two countries, India and Ivory Coast.
