Deadline: 27-Jun-25
The International Labour Organization is inviting applications for its project titled “Accelerating Action for the Elimination of Child Labour in Supply chains in Africa” (ACCEL Africa) to build upon the successes of past projects, support the ongoing and proposed efforts by ILO constituents, non-governmental organizations to reduce the vulnerabilities and exploitation of children in the Global Supply Chains in Africa.
The Project will implement innovative actions as solutions to some of the root causes of child labour in the cocoa and ASGM supply chains. It will address the poverty and socio-economic vulnerability, occupational safety and health issues including hazardous work, youth skills and unemployment, limited access to social protection, and social norms that perpetuate child labour.
The project will focus on promoting an integrated approach to reinforce cooperatives, establishing innovative financing mechanisms and supporting the most vulnerable workers and small producers to organise themselves to achieve collective strength and voice.
The project envisages providing direct services to individual children and families while at the same time building the capacity of communities to protect their children from child labour.
Objectives
- To deliver on the goals of the ACCEL Africa phase II project and to implement specific innovative and evidenced based solutions, to deliver on Outcome 2 of its workplan, the ILO ACCEL Africa II Nigeria project wishes to engage services of experienced and innovative local organizations (NGOs) to implement direct action programmes in Ondo, Niger and Osun States.
- Specifically to:
- Support community actions in the delivery of child labour related programs.
- To carry out local coordination of interventions being implemented by the project in the states and communities.
- To support the identification of beneficiaries’ youths, workers and producers at the lowest tiers of the supply chain who are to be supported to develop skills, diversify and enhance their livelihoods, with special attention to the specific needs of women.
- To support monitoring and evaluation of project interventions at the community, local governments level.
Duration
- The Implementation Agreement will be implemented for 100 days in 17 months tentatively to start from August 2025-December 2026.
Expected Outcomes
- Institutional capacity for the formulation, implementation, and financing of policies to prevent and reduce child labour in supply chains is increased:
- Support implementation of the National and State Action Plans for the elimination of child labour and forced labour and participate in the quarterly meetings of State Steering Committee on the elimination of child labour.
- Support advocacies on child labour targeted at relevant gatekeepers or influencers and support the commemoration of the World Day against child labour.
- Legal and regulatory framework is improved and enforcement mechanisms to prevent and reduce child labour particularly in supply chains are strengthened:
- Train CCLMCs in the project’s states on recent trends in child labour interventions and reporting on child labour issues.
- Support CCLMC at the communities to monitor and report on child labour cases/interventions through participation in their quarterly review meetings)
- Workers at lower tiers of supply chains have better access to social protection schemes:
- Propose improved targeted mechanisms for the communities to support identification and registration of vulnerable workers in the target supply chains in social-health insurance programmes.
- Workers at lower tiers of supply chains benefit from improved OSH conditions:
- Support OSH Awareness raising activities on use of OSH training tools and through the design and printing of IEC materials.
- Workers at lower tiers of supply chains are supported to improve their livelihood:
- Identify alternative supply chains that provide new income generating activities to workers:
- Support identification of group of workers within cooperatives and VSLAs to be supported in financial education and IGAs
- Assess market opportunities within the value chain/geographical area for selected group of workers
- Pilot gender-sensitive livelihoods interventions based on the identification of new income generating activities
- Identify alternative supply chains that provide new income generating activities to workers:
- School-to-decent work transition for children over the minimum age for work is improved:
- In collaboration with national stakeholders and ILO, strengthen the capacity of national and sub-national training institutions to expand the reach of vocational training programmes (including the integration of FPRW) to children and youths that are or were affected by child labour in the project states:
- Proposed activities for youth employment:
- Support the identification and selection process of youth target groups considering the set criteria in collaboration with the CCLMCs.
- Create a database with the detailed list of the target youths to be trained to facilitate the monitoring. If there is already one at community level, explore it for better synergy and ownership. Similarly, it should be aligned with the monitoring tools of the ACCEL Africa Project.
- Confirm the areas of trainings (technical, vocational, entrepreneurial) based on the rapidassessment undertaken by ILO.
- Facilitate the discussions with the TVETs.
- Proposed activities for youth employment:
- In collaboration with national stakeholders and ILO, strengthen the capacity of national and sub-national training institutions to expand the reach of vocational training programmes (including the integration of FPRW) to children and youths that are or were affected by child labour in the project states:
Eligibility Criteria
- The direct-action programme and services to be provided by the NGOs will be in ACCEL AFRICA II LGAs and Communities in Niger, Osun and Ondo States.
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