This guide aims to provide practical guidelines and instruments to collect information on children and adolescents in child labor or at risk, and on the main characteristics of their families in the territories indicated by the Child Labor Risk Identification Model (MIRTI ) locally.

The guide is aimed at city councils or local governments of the countries that have implemented MIRTI.

The gender strategy of the Regional Initiative is focused on the specific area of ​​child labor, with the aim of adequately protecting children and adolescents, addressing the barriers they face in a different way, and meeting their needs and strategic interests for their growth.

Based on the analysis of the hazardous work listings process in Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Peru and the Dominican Republic, this document aims to identify technical criteria to optimize and strengthen the use of this tool within the framework of public policies, the application of current regulations and the protection of the rights of children and adolescents.

The objective of this study is to provide empirical evidence that allows identifying the main local risk factors to determine priority areas of the municipality in which local interventions are designed and established to accelerate the prevention and elimination of child labor.

Held from October 27 to 30, 2020. The Network of Focal Points of the Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labor met for the sixth consecutive year, this time virtually, to agree on its response plan to the crisis of COVID-19, and to prepare its incidence in the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labor (2021).

It presents ten public policy recommendations to prevent and eradicate child labor in migrant children and adolescents. 

In recent years, Costa Rica has managed to reduce child labor thanks to sustained action and shared efforts between governments, employers 'and workers' organizations, civil society, and international cooperation. However, the current crisis could reverse the positive trends observed and place the country in a more difficult position than that registered before the crisis to meet the target 8.7 of the SDGs, which refers to “ending child labor in all its forms between now and 2025 ”.

It allows identifying the territories most vulnerable to child labor in Chile and defining in which regions and communes the most relevant preventive efforts and multisectoral actions should be concentrated. From the results obtained by the Child Labor Vulnerability Index, it was identified that of the 345 communes in the country, 81 have a high index, 63 a medium index and 201 a low index.

Developed by the ILO and ECLAC, in collaboration with the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare within the framework of the Regional Initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labor. It allows identifying the risk of child labor at the local level. Through the implementation of the Model, it has been identified that, of the 340 municipalities in the country, the risk of child labor is high in 98 municipalities, medium in 132 municipalities and low in 110 municipalities. Complete information at the national, regional and departmental levels is available in the following files.

Joint analysis produced by the ILO and ECLAC on the possible impacts that the crisis generated by COVID-19 could have on children and adolescents. The analysis, which initially covered three countries (Mexico, Peru and Costa Rica), based on the results of the Child Labor Risk Identification Model (MIRTI), allows estimating that child labor could increase between 1 and 3 percentage points in Latin America and the Caribbean.