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How to tackle causes for Child labor?

Some initiatives that can be effective in combating child labour include:

- Monitoring government activity and collecting reliable data,
- Improving law enforcement,
- Improving Child labor Legislation (especially to cover child domestic work and the informal sector)
- Ensuring that the necessary legislation is in place to punish employers, development of penalties,
- Ensuring necessary technical, human and financial resources are made available,
- Developing child labourers rehabilitation programmes (Shelter, vocational education and training, psychological assistance, etc.)
- Developing Social awareness and activism,
- Reinforcing coordination between the different Ministries, agencies, NGOs,

Ending poverty, increasing access to education and promoting children’s participation are also crucial tools in the fight against child labour. It is important to act:

- to increase family incomes and security:

- in replacing child workers with their parents (who may be unemployed). This would actually increase a family's income because adults are more highly paid.
- in promoting Food security activities to ensure reliable and adequate food supply.
- in developing Credit and saving facilities.

- to provide children with a complete and quality education, that will help them to learn skills to earn a living.

- to counsel families and communities on the long-term benefits of education.

- to develop social services - that help children and families survive crises, such as disease, or loss of home and shelter,

- to favor women’s equality. Women invest in their children's food, water, housing, clothing, and schooling. A commitment to women's equality must be part of the commitment to end child labour because when a woman's income improves, so does the situation of her children.

- to favor children’s participation in decisions that affect their lives and involve them in constructing "solutions" to their own problems.

- to increase family control of fertility - so that families not feel “burdened” by children.

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