Approaches to Reducing the Use of Forced or Child Labor Summary of a Workshop on Assessing Practice (2009) / Chapter Skim
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5 CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT
5 CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT
Pages 55-64
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Did the program reduce child or forced labor, assuming that was -- or should have been or would be -- the larger goal around any such program. Did it benefit child or forced laborers?
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This, for example, could involve continuation of a project of activity after its initial funding is expected to expire. But it could also involve the creation of new attitudes, ways of working, mainstreaming of child labor considerations, creation of capacity, etc., that could represent legacies of a particular practice.
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A related question is to ask which factors limit or encourage replicability, because that helps one to understand the context in which a practice can work or not. Sustainability is, in a sense, the other side of replicability and focuses on whether a practice can continue beyond an initial outlay of resources (e.g., initial funding)
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Businesses ought to have a methodology for measuring cost effectiveness and incorporate this concept into the strategic thinking. Relevance focuses on the underlying theory linking the practice to its desired outcomes.
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Criteria could be better defined. Jorge Perez-Lopez noted that good definitions were critical: "It is going to be a challenge to define some of these things because there are very many situations that arise and how these concepts are defined is very important." Rachel Rigby commented that "it would be very helpful for our criteria…to also be accompanied by a set of definitions." Jeff Morgan concurred, noting that terms must be very clearly defined and understood among key stakeholders.
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As he outlined it in his presentation: • The criteria lack context of the environment in which the labor issue occurs. o What are the key issues faced by those who seek to address the problem?
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It is important to note that the laws and the ILO Conventions do not bind farmers, they bind governments, and the government may simply lack the regulatory authority force to put the laws into affect. In a third environment the government itself is the culprit.
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Thea Lee suggested more attention be paid to the notions of direct, indirect, and unintended consequences, "because certainly with respect to child labor, the unintended consequences are an enormous issue for folks evaluating child labor programs. Do you send the children begging or other even worse outcomes, prostitution and so on, if you take them out of the apparel supply chain and so it seemed like in the criteria, you would want very explicitly to ask whether the program design incorporates elements to directly mitigate the unintended consequences and evaluate those elements of the program separately and give it the attention that is deserves." Bill Guyton spoke to the issue of practices within the context of preexisting programs.
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I do not see how relevance really is or should be a criterion in your work." An audience member noted that it is really of critical importance to get the logic and the logic model explicit and suggested moving that up to the beginning and to recognize that there are many logic models for child labor, that is, there are many reasons why there is child labor. One of the pitfalls, the commenter noted, in the design of child labor programs is a mismatch between what we think the problem is and what the solutions are.
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When people migrate to pick cotton or some other product, they take their children with them and there are no schools around. "So it really depends on the logic model and getting that right.
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