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Overview of the Alliance 8.7

Overview of the Alliance 8.7. Technical consultation on SDG Alliance 8.7 in Nepal Priority Setting Workshop Kathmandu 7 th February 2019. What is forced labour?.

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Overview of the Alliance 8.7

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  1. Overview of the Alliance 8.7 Technical consultation on SDG Alliance 8.7 in Nepal Priority Setting Workshop Kathmandu 7th February 2019

  2. What is forced labour? Forced labour is defined by the nature of the relationship between a person and an “employer” and not by the type of activity performed. 1. Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) (178 ratifications) • All (1) work or service that is exacted from any person under the (2) menace of any penaltyand for which the said person has (3) not offered himself voluntarily.

  3. 1. Human trafficking, is defined in the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (2000) as Terminology around forced labour is often a source of confusion A crime in which the victim is recruited, transported, transferred, or harboured or received by certain means including coercion, deception or abuse of vulnerability for the purpose of exploitation.

  4. Terminology cont’d Human trafficking is closely linked to forced labour but the two concepts are not synonymous Trafficking unrelated to labour (e.g., organ smuggling, false adoption, forced marriage(?)) Forced labour unrelated to trafficking (e.g., forced prison labour) Trafficking for the purpose of forced labour

  5. Bonded labour or debt bondage • Situation under which labourers and their families are forced to work for an employer in order to pay off the debts they have incurred or inherited. Concepts Slavery • Slavery refers to control of one person or persons over others (the 1926 Slavery Convention) Children in bonded labour • Situations where: • children are sold into bondage by their parents; • a parent is subject to debt bondage and children have no alternative but to work with their parents; or • children are used to settle financial disputes and are sent by their family to work off a debt

  6. Slavery or similar practices is a worst form of child labour: ILO C. 182, Article 3(a) such as sale and trafficking of children, debt bondage and forced labour Debt bondage in agriculture Family in vicious cycle of debt, children too ex: Kamayia system in Nepal forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict Child labour and the links to forced labour, trafficking and migration

  7. HUMAN TRAFFICKING : For Adults: Act + Means + Purpose For Children: Act + Means + Purpose Childrencannot consent to theirown exploitation: no coercion or threatisneeded to count as trafficking Child labour and the links to forced labour, trafficking and migration

  8. Of the 24.9 million people in forced labour, 4.3 million are children, 17% of the total. Of the 40.3 million people in modern slavery, which includes forced marriage, 37 %, or 5.7 million of those forced to marry, are children.     Child labour and the links to forced labour, trafficking and migration

  9. What are the global challenges? What is the Alliance 8.7 doing to address these challenges How does the Alliance work? (Basic structure, political commitment, GCG, action groups) From global commitment to national and local action: Pathfinder countries and Country Coordination Groups What are action groups and how to jointhem? Guiding questions for our discussion

  10. 1. WHAT ARE THE GLOBAL CHALLENGES?

  11. Why Alliance 8.7? – The global challenge

  12. The challenge

  13. The challenge

  14. 2. WHAT IS THE ALLIANCE 8.7 DOING TO ADDRESS THESE CHALLENGES? (What does it expect to deliver and achieve?)

  15. Alliance 8.7 is a global SDG partnership committed to achieve a world without forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour by 2030 (2025*) Catalysing function  engaging countries (governments and organizations) with four major objectives: • Accelerating and Coordinating Action • Conducting Research and Sharing Knowledge • Driving Innovation • Increasing and Leveraging Resources Objectives of Alliance 8.7

  16. Accelerating and Coordinating Action: Remind governments on their obligations, commitments and pledges. Support implementation. Bring different partners together at the national level. Conducting Research and Sharing Knowledge: Provide policy makers with access to relevant data and evidence-based best practice. Analyze what works and learn from failures. Driving Innovation: Look for new ideas, discuss them, test them and scale them up. Use technology and financial intelligence. Increasing and Leveraging Resources: Agree on common goals, use existing resources better and mobilize new ones, if needed. What does that mean in practice?

  17. 3. HOW DOES THE ALLIANCE WORK?

  18. Governments (Chair: Australia, Deputy: Argentina) Employers organizations (IOE) Workers organizations (ITUC) UN and Int. Organizations (IOM, UNICEF, OHCHR, FAO…) Regional Organizations (SAARC/SAIEVAC, African Union…) Civil Society Organizations Research Institutions (e.g. UN University) Multinational enterprises (nominated by IOE/ITUC) Who participates?

  19. Global Coordinating Group • Action Groups • HumanitarianCrisis and Conflict (UNICEF); • SupplyChains (ILO); • Migration (IOM); • Rule of Law and Governance (OHCHR) • Country Coordination Groups • Secretariat • Child Labour Platform / Business Network on Forced Labour Operational structure

  20. 4. FROM GLOBAL COMMITMENT TO NATIONAL AND LOCAL ACTION: PATHFINDER COUNTRIES AND COUNTRY COORDINATION GROUPS

  21. BEFORE Leadership and commitment: going faster and further, taking others on board Commitments already in place: • national action plans/policies/pledges/human rights and labour standards Declaration of Commitment – Voluntary Request and Exchange of Letters Pathfinder countries

  22. AFTER National consultations Strategic Planning exercise to Develop Roadmap Ideally formulate national targets related to SDG 8.7 Coordination Structure Mobilise and channel resources Collect data, Conduct research Monitor and report progress Share knowledge, Lessons Learnt, Good Practices Scale up with technical support The order of events can be flexible depending on context Pathfinder countries

  23. Pathfinder countries

  24. 5. THE ROLE OF THE ACTION GROUPS

  25. The Role of the Action Groups

  26. How Governments and Partners can engage with Action Groups 1.       register as members of relevant Action Group at the Alliance website: https://www.alliance87.org/action/action-groups/; 2. invite other key supply actors in the respective countries to register themselves online. 3.       identify in the Action Groups’ work plans (2018-19) ongoing areas of work that can support country level objectives 4.       link Country Coordination Groups with relevant Action Groups to receive and share technical knowledge, innovative ideas and information.     5.       participate actively in shaping the global agenda of Action Groups.

  27. ILO/FUNDAMENTALS secretariat@alliance87.org info@alliance87.org

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