the worst forms of child labour and providing them with suitable alternatives (education,
lifeskills, incoming activities) to it. The project has been implemented in 14 districts
targeting children between the ages between 7 and 18 years. Partners include
Government
Ministries/Departments,
Trade
Union
Organisations,
Employers
Association, Non-Governmental Organisation and International NGOs such as the
Education Development Centre.
Through the joint efforts of development partners children have been prevented from
entering or withdrawn from labour and linked to appropriate service providers (EDC,
VETA, COBET, and Primary school). As shown in annex 5, table l, a total of 27,549
children have been reached by this programme.56 A recent Child Labour Survey in
Zanzibar showed that 173 children have been withdrawn from child labour and returned
to school.
Other impacts of the programme include: an increased level of awareness among the
public of the hazards of child labour; the mainstreaming of measures to address child
labour in
MKUKUTA with setting of budget allocation for identified areas for
interventions; development of a policy and legal framework for combating child labour
and its worst forms; enactment of the Employment and Labour Relations Act No. 6 of
2004; Child Labour Elimination Strategy; inclusion of child labour in the next National
Labour Force Survey to be carried out in the near future. The Government has also
produced a list of hazardous tasks for children as mandated by the Convention No. 182,
which the Time Bound Programme has translated into Kiswahili to promote community
awareness
Phase II of the Time Bound Programme on the worst forms of child labour in Tanzania
runs from 2005 to 2009.
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Children withdrawn are normally counselled and thereafter provided with rehabilitation services, which end up with
gradual re-integration to their families. Followed by complementary basic education and vocational skills training.
Thereafter there are provided with small grants to initiate viable income generating activities in their respective
communities.
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