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From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labour
  • GUIDANCE
  • TRAINING /
    CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT
  • ADVOCACY PLATFORM
Overview

The project aims to support national efforts to combat forced labour under the 2014 ILO Protocol and Recommendation on Forced Labour. It is implemented through partnerships with national and local governments, workers' and employers' organizations, and civil society organizations.

The goals are also to:

  • Improve evidence-base and responsible national policies and action plans on forced labour, with strong implementation, monitoring, and enforcement mechanism
  • Enhance efforts to collect reliable national, regional, and global levels
  • Strengthen workers' and employers' organizations to support the fight against forced labour in partnership with other interested parties
  • Strengthen awareness and livelihoods programs to prevent forced labour and to provide victimes with access to remedies
Activities / Outputs / Results

  • Awareness raising on forced labor: support the “50forFreedom” campaign, development of a web platform, awareness-raising materials on the 2014 ILO Protocol and Recommendation

  • Capacity building: develop guidance tool for countries to implement and monitor national plan of action on forced labor, and work with national commissions on forced labor and human trafficking to develop, implement and monitor such national action plans, specifically taking into account gender and age dimensions of forced labor. Develop material and train labor inspectors, and other law enforcement officials on forced labor

  • Work with employers’ organizations, businesses, and other stakeholders, including organization a global supply chain forum

  • In the project priority countries, design, implement and monitor community-based prevention and rehabilitation programs, and develop and train a network of lawyers and judicial officials to support strategic litigation of individual forced labor cases.