• Costa Rica is the first Central American country to apply the model.

• According to ENAHO 2016, in Costa Rica 30,369 people between 5 and 17 years old are employed.

• The main activities carried out are agricultural (33.2%), followed by commercial (26.7%).

This Friday, January 24 at 9:00 am (GMT-6) in the Presidential House Auditorium, the Government of Costa Rica will present the main results of the application of the Model of Child Labor Risk Indicators, at the national level and of the seven provinces.

The event will be chaired by Mrs. Geannina Dinarte Romero, Minister of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) and Juan Luis Bermúdez, Minister of Human Development and Social Inclusion. It will also have the participation of Ms. Carmen Moreno González, Director of the Office of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for Central America, Haiti, Panama and the Dominican Republic; Mrs. Cristina Pérez Gutiérrez, Ambassador of Spain in Costa Rica and Mr. Andrés Espejo, Social Affairs Officer of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

The Child Labor Risk Indicator Model has been developed jointly by the ILO and ECLAC, in coordination with the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, within the framework of the Regional Initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labor, of the which Costa Rica is a founding country and an active member since 2014.

What is it? and What is the Child Labor Risk Indicator Model for?

The Child Labor Risk Indicator Model is a statistical tool built with fourteen variables grouped into five dimensions: labor, ethnic, demographic, children's education, and adult education. The variables used have been obtained from the ENAHO, specifically from the child labor module applied in 2016, and have been complemented with administrative records from various public institutions, such as the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS); the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) and the MTSS; the Mixed Institute for Social Aid (IMAS), the National Children's Trust (PANI), among others.

With the analysis of the variables in each province, the model classifies the cantons according to three levels of vulnerability: low, medium and high, and allows identifying the associated risk and protection factors, in order to propose multisectoral and intergovernmental actions to advance in the sustained reduction of child labor at the territorial level.

Costa Rica is one of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean with the most possibilities, both due to its institutional capacities and due to the magnitude of child labor, of achieving goal 8.7 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which commits to ending to child labor in 2025.

All these efforts were evaluated by the United States Department of Labor in its 2018 - 2019 report, in which Costa Rica was valued, within the category of the 12 countries with "considerable progress" in prevention and eradication. of child labor, ranking third worldwide.

With the presentation of these results, the second phase of application of the Model begins, which will contribute to the design and implementation of a focused local strategy to accelerate the reduction of child labor and dangerous adolescent work.

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