UCW - Understanding Children’s Work
As part of broader efforts to accelerate the eradication of child labour, the ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank initiated in 2000 an inter-agency research project called « UCW - Understanding Children’s Work ». The UCW Project is guided by the Oslo Agenda for Action, which was unanimously adopted at the 1997 International Conference on child labour and laid out the priorities for the international community in the fight against child labour. The Oslo Agenda specifically identified the need to improve data collection, research capacity and monitoring systems related to child labour, and called for stronger co-operation amongst international agencies involved in combating the phenomenon.
Financed by contributions from Finland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the US and by core agency resources, the UCW Project Secretariat is based at the Centre for Economic and International Studies (CEIS) by the University of Rome « Tor Vergata ».
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