Completed Projects

Eliminating Child Labor for a Better Future

BCCP, forevermore expanding its area of expertise, has newly entered into the U.S. Department of Labor-funded Child Labor Improvements in Bangladesh (CLIMB) project through WINROCK International. As media partner, BCCP is to contribute to the project objective by improving the capacity of civil society for transmitting information on child labor and forced child labor in southeast Bangladesh’s dried fish sector, promote acceptable work conditions for children, and involve policy planners, local government institutions, the civil society organizations and Journalists by making them aware and responsive to the strategic development of the children.
 
Recently BCCP is awarded as Media Partner for CLIMB project by WINROCK International, the signing ceremony was held on November 17, 2019. This BCCP-CLIMB/WI project is planned to continue up to December 2020.
 
The specific Project Goal is to reduced child labor and increased acceptable conditions of work in the dried fish sector (DFS) in southeast Bangladesh. Improved capacity of civil society to understand and address child labor and forced child labor and promote acceptable conditions of work for children in the DFS in southeast Bangladesh is the project objective.
 
BCCP will contribute to achieve in three outcomes:
Outcome 1: Improved capacity of civil society to identify and document accurate, timely, and user-friendly information on the nature and scope of CL, FCL, and unacceptable conditions of work for children in DFS.
 
Outcome 2: Improved capacity of civil society to raise awareness and advocate for the protection of children from CL, FCL, and/or unacceptable conditions of work in DFS.
 
Outcome 3: Improved capacity of civil society to implement initiatives to address CL, FCL, and/or unacceptable conditions of work for children in DFS, including facilitated access to grievance mechanisms and remedy for victims of labor exploitation.
 
As the media partner, BCCP will transmit information/stories related to child labor (CL) and forced child labor (FCL) in the country’s dried fish sector (DFS) and promote acceptable work conditions for children. The problems in the dried fish sector are not properly addressed by the policy planners, local government institutions and the civil society organizations. BCCP will facilitate journalists to contribute to the dried fish sector to address the lack of information and to identify the issues and problems. Through this partnership, BCCP will facilitate/mentor the selected journalists and CSOs who will collect and disseminate information related to child labor issues, cover the news events, organize local level awareness and BCC campaign. Besides BCCP will organize stakeholders sharing sessions to influence policy planners and the local government institutions to make them aware and responsive to the strategic development of the children.
 
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Disclaimer: The three-year U.S. Department of Labor-funded Child Labor Improvements in Bangladesh (CLIMB) project, which started in December 2017, aims to improve civil society’s awareness of child labor in southeast Bangladesh’s dried fish sector, promoting acceptable work conditions through more focused efforts by civil society organizations (CSOs) and government to identify and address child labor and the vulnerability of communities and households.