Consultants for Child Labor Private Sector Engagement - Against Child Exploitation project

Background

Viet Nam has committed to undertaking measures to tackle child labour through laws, policies and institutional support. Viet Nam has recently made significant achievements in the fight against child labour, establishing a strong legal framework aligned with international labour standards, and implementing a number of programs and projects to counter child labour nationally and locally. Viet Nam has joined and ratified international treaties including ILO's Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention No. 182 (1999) and Minimum Age Convention No. 138 (1973) to ensure the implementation of children's rights. The Decision No. 782/QD-TTg issued by the Prime Minister on May 27, 2021, granted approval of the Program on prevention and reduction of illegal child labor (CL) in the 2021-2025 period, with orientations toward 2030. Goals of actions for prevention, detection, intervention and child support in case of illegal child labor and towards children at high risk of becoming child laborers are clearly defined in this program.
However, child labour in Viet Nam persists despite these efforts, especially in the informal sector of the economy. According to the results of the national survey on child labor in 2018, there are 1,031,944 children/youth ages 5-17 participate to 17 in child labor, which (accounts for 5.4% of the total number of children in this age group; of the over 1 million children who participate in child labor, 20.1 % work more than 40 hours a week. 519,805 children in engage in heavy, dangerous and hazardous jobs (50.4% of child labor). Statistics from this survey also showed that the sectors that employ the most children are the agriculture sector, followed by construction of houses of all types, production of garments, and restaurants and mobile catering services; the same sectors engage the most in hazardous child labor. This results in harmful effects on children's health and psychological development, limits their school attendance and inhibits their transition to decent productive work.
The Against Child Exploitation (ACE) project, funded by United States Department of Labor, has commenced since 2019 in the Philippines with the view to strengthening the capacity of the Government of Philippines to address the Worst Forms of Child Labor (WFCL) including Online Sexual Exploitation of Children (OSEC), and violations of acceptable conditions of work. Building on fruitful results achieved in the Philippines, the ACE project will be implemented from November 2021 to September 2024 in Vietnam in 06 target districts of 03 target provinces (Điện Biên province, Đà Nẵng city, and Quảng Nam province).
Key implementation partners are local government agencies at national level (MOLISA - Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs), provincial DOLISA, district People Committee, commune levels (CPCs - Child Protection Committees, mass organizations, local community groups /Community Based organizations), and private sector (informal and small-scale formal business enterprises and institutions). Following are the key Project goal, objective and outcomes:
Overall Goal: To contribute to the elimination of WFCL, including OSEC, and violations of acceptable conditions of work in Vietnam
Project Level Objective: To strengthen the capacity of the Government of Vietnam to address WFCL, including OSEC, and violations of acceptable conditions of work
Outcome 1: Improved enforcement of the legal framework and policies pertaining to WFCL, including OSEC, and violations of acceptable conditions of work in Vietnam
Outcome 2: Improved assistance services for victims of WFCL, including OSEC
Outcome 3: Strengthened partnerships to accelerate progress in addressing WFCL, including OSEC, and violations of acceptable conditions of work in Vietnam

Purpose of Position

The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical and coordination efforts for effective implementation of the project outcome # 3 on "Strengthened effective and sustainable Partnerships to address WFCL, including OSEC and Violations of ACW".
The specific objective is to implement output 3.2 in project comprehensive monitoring & evaluation plan (CMEP): to engage the informal private sector in addressing WFCL, including OSEC, and violations of acceptable conditions of work.

Key Responsibilities

Please refer to Term Of Reference (File attached) for more information.

Knowledge & Skill

Experience