Good Practices:

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Good Practices   Gender Mainstreaming in
Actions Against Child Labour
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Gender and work to combat child labour

• Gender is an important factor around which child
  labour is organised and needs are met
• If gender equality issues are ignored, life is
  often unintentionally made harder for women and
  girls
• Cant be seen as an add-on factor
• Needs to be embedded as a core element e.g.
  addressed in the design phase of studies

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Good practices gender mainstreaming in actions
against child labour

• First time collected and documented
• Covers wide range of areas, e.g HIV/AIDS/ Art /
  football / CDW/ CSEC /trafficking / IPEC
  procedures / research techniques/statistics/
• Often people dont realise they are actually
  mainstreaming gender in their work

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Challenges

• Gender and culture good practices within the
  context
• Difficulties in measuring good practice
• Good practice in both gender mainstreaming and
  actions against child labour
• Collecting suggestions from ILO short time

• Reading reports vs talking to people

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Methodology

• Review of IPECs Framework and Process for
  Identifying, Dissemination and Using GPs in child
  labour - excellent
• Reviewed GPs in GM from other dev agencies
• Comparison of criteria for what constitutes a GP
  in GM
• Investigation of different formats for presenting
  GPs

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Methodology contd..

• Adaptation of the definitions, levels of good
  practice and criteria from IPEC
• Draft definition of GP in gender mainstreaming
  and in actions against child labour
• Flyer introducing report inviting IPEC staff
  to propose GPs

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Methodology contd..

• Collection of suggestions
• Desk review of many documents
• Interviews with staff

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What is a good practice in gender mainstreaming
for ILO/IPEC?

• Any practice that works well in terms of actions
  against child labour while implementing the ILO
  strategy of gender mainstreaming (whether fully
  or in part)
• A GP may have implications for gender
  mainstreaming practice at any level
• Can represent any type of practice, small or
  large, however has to have been tried and worked
  (either fully or in part)
• Doesnt have to be a project, can be policy level
  activity, or specific focus as part of an
  activity

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Gender mainstreaming UN definition
the process of assessing the implications for
women and men of any planned action, including
legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas
and at all levels. It is a strategy for making
womens as well as mens concerns and experiences
an integral dimension of the design,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
policies and programmes in all political,
economic and societal spheres so that women and
men benefit equally and inequality is not
perpetuated. The ultimate goal is to achieve
gender equality. ECOSOC Agreed Conclusions,
1997/2
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How to determine what makes a practice good?

• 7 criteria from Evaluation
• Innovative or creative
• Effectiveness/impact
• Replicability
• Sustainability
• Relevance
• Responsive and ethical
• Efficiency and implementation

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3 Levels of good practice
Aspect that may need further revision
3. Replicated good practices
2. Successfully demonstrated practices
1. Innovative practices
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Categorizing the good practices?

• Approach taken in GP?
• Level of good practice?
• Geography?
• Whether it was a policy, institutional, field
  level focus?
• Whether the emphasis was on positive action?
  protective measures? or girl or boy specific
  activities?

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4 pronged approach to bring gender issues into
the mainstream in all IPEC policies, programmes
and activities

• Carrying out a gender analysis of a situation to
  identify inequalities
• Carrying out gender-specific actions e.g.
  targeting girls or women exclusively, men, boys,
  Starting a process of institutional change
  within IPEC /partner organisations procedures
• Giving girls/women a greater voice by increasing
  their participation to ensure their perspectives
  are heard

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4 pronged approach to bring gender issues into
the mainstream in all IPEC policies, programmes
and activities

• Carrying out a gender analysis of a situation to
  identify inequalities
• Carrying out gender-specific actions e.g.
  targeting girls or women exclusively, men, boys,
  

• 3. Starting a process of institutional change
  within IPEC /partner organisations procedures
• 4. Giving girls/women a greater voice by
  increasing their participation to ensure their
  perspectives are heard

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.Taking each one of these 4 approaches.
.categorised the Good Practices
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Gender analysis 4 GPs
Two national surveys 1. - child labour
Turkey 2. - S. Africa CDW 3. Good Practice Report
on CSE in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia GA
to understand root causes of poverty, GA to find
out who exactly is being sexually exploited, when
where 4. Rapid Assessment in Jamaica clearly
disaggregated children engaged in prostitution
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Gender-specific actions 4 GPs

• HIV/AIDs review brought out the need to focus
  on sexual demand and male behaviour S.Af.
  Tanzania, Zambia
• Focus on child domestic workers thematic eval.
  Kenya, Tanzania, Pakistan, Philippines

• Art rehabilitation for working st. girls St.
  Petersburg
• Vocational training for girls involved in
  rural/domestic labour E. Turkey

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IPEC can be considered both in terms of
Institutional change category

• its internal structure with respect to gender
  sensitivity

• gender sensitivity in the projects and
  programmes of IPEC and partners

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Process of institutional change within IPEC /
partner organisations procedures 6 GPs

• Global child labour estimates
• Integrating gender into thematic evaluation on
  trafficking /sexual exploitation Thailand,
  Philippines, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua
• MainSCREAMing gender ILO stop child labour
  initiative

• IPEC Review
• Practical guide
• Design of project documents

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Giving girls/women a greater voice by increasing
their participation 6 GPs

• How girls engaged in prostitution describe their
  situation Tanzania
• Red card to child labour Mali

5. National stakeholder consultation on the TBP
Nepal 6. Gender equality awareness raising
exercise coffee industry Guatemala
3. Participatory approach in the Mekong
trafficking project 4. Provision of information
homes to combat trafficking Yunnan Province
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Finally.some summary points on mainstreaming a
gender perspective in organisations (adapted from
Hannan-Andersson, 1999)

• Having a coherent policy on gender equality and
  gender mainstreaming
• Having a consistent approach
• Ensuring gender mainstreaming is explicitly
  treated within the organisation
• Knowing who is responsible
• Ensuring personnel have the skills necessary to
  mainstream gender concerns

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