Trainer on child labour

Akkar Network for Development (AND) has been working in Akkar for the last 6 years with women, youth and local authorities to promote the well-being of the community. In addition to other interventions in the area, AND is currently working on a number of protection initiatives aiming to reduce violence against women and children, along with women and youth empowerment.

In partnership with UNICEF, AND is currently implementing a child rights project aiming at raising awareness about children rights with children and caregivers, empowering duty bearers to realize the importance of children rights, and provide a safe  space for boys and girls to actively participate in this process and voice their needs.

AND is implement this initiative in Wadi Khaled and Sahel. Throughout this project, AND team will organize awareness sessions and collaborate with the existing bodies/committees, 2 steering committees (SC) and 2 children committees (CC). AND will organize discussion sessions on children rights with the participation of a consultant/expert on child labour, local authority representatives, SC representatives and children from the communities.

Areas of Responsibility:  Life skills  

The main task to be completed by the consultant shall be:

• Facilitating the discussions regarding child labour.
• Providing child labour definition, child labour in the Lebanese legal framework for Child Labour in general, and for child labour in the agricultural sector, along with explaining the risks that it entails for children working in this sector.
• Informing the participants on any advocacy initiatives in this respect, and/or any mitigation measures.

Platform location: Sahel area /Akkar.

Deliverables

The Trainer shall be responsible for the following deliverables.

1. Inception report on the main discussion themes
2. Detailed report on the discussion process and outcomes

Level of Effort

The expert shall have the following number of days allotted for this task:

Task

LOE

Discussion session

1 days

TOTAL

1 days

Reporting

The consultant shall report to the Project Manager.