Download Child labour in Agriculture and Political Commitment

NATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE TO
ERADICATE CHILD LABOUR IN AGRICULTURE
HELD IN DAR ES SALAAM SERENA HOTEL ON MAY
12- 14, 2015
“PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABILITY: TOGETHER WE
CAN ERADICATE CHILD LABOUR IN
AGRICULTURE".
Child labour in Agriculture
OUTLINE:
•Introduction
•Policy Statements In National Agriculture
Policy Of 2013 In Child Labour Mainstreaming
•Youth Agricultural Strategies And Programs
•Livelihood Support
•Challenges
•Conclusion
Introduction
Agricultural sector is and will continue to remain the
foundation of the economy for Tanzania.
 It accounts for:
 24.7 per cent of the GDP,
 Provides about 95 percent of food requirement
 Employs 74 per cent of the population

 Therefore, the sector growth will have a fast and long-term
impact on poverty alleviation if the employment potential will
be created to enable poor people to raise their income hence
reduced child labour
 As poor people mainly rely on labour to earn their livelihoods,
the creation of more and better employment opportunities in
agriculture for both women and men is essential for poverty
reduction
Policy Statements
 Youth Involvement in
Agriculture
Ensure access to productive
resources including labour saving
technologies (mechanisation
equipments), surveyed land,
irrigation infrastructure
 The Government in collaboration
with DPs and private sectors
envisaged conducive environment
for youths to settle in rural areas
through promotion of rural
development

Policy Statements Cont...
 MAFC in collaboration with
the MoEVT to incorporate
agriculture in the education
and VETA curricula
 The
Government
in
collaboration with the private
sector, civil societies, youth
organizations and business
community shall promote the
culture of entrepreneurship
among youths.
Policy Statements Cont...
• Employment and Decent Work in
Agriculture:
Promote up-to-date age and sex-disaggregated information
on employment and labour productivity related issues in
rural areas
 Promote On-farm and non-farm rural activities as engines of
growth and innovation in terms of attractive jobs for both
women and men, in line with decent work concepts
 Promote Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) and
Young Farmers’ Associations (YFAs)

Policy Statements Cont...
 Create awareness on the benefits of productive youth
employment and child labour prevention in
agriculture
 Promote business models that provide opportunities
for small-scale producers towards aggregation of
produce and developing backward and forward
linkages targeting particularly rural women and
youth
Policy Statements Cont...
 Enhance a labour and legal enforcement framework
for protection of workers and employers in the
agricultural sector and the informal rural economy
 Mainstreaming and integrated employment and
decent work into agriculture sector development
strategies and programmes(ASDS II and ASDP II).
Agricultural Youth Strategy
 The MAFC developed National
Strategy for Youth Involvement
in Agriculture Sector (20152020)
 Rufiji Basin Development
Authority (RUBADA) under
MAFC start youth camps in
Ludewa and Mkongo in
Morogoro.
Livelihood Support
 Poverty is the major cause behind
child labour.
 Poor people mainly rely on labour
to earn their livelihoods
 Reducing poverty/child labour,
MAFC under ASDP introduce:
 Agric. Input subsidy (Voucher)
 Agr. Input loans under Agric.
Input Trust Fund (AGITF)
 Improve agr. infrastructure e.g.
markets, cooperatives, irrigation
schemes, warehouses etc..
 Establish Tanzania Agr. Dev.
Bank (TADB)
Challenges
 inadequate employment opportunities in agriculture
(which are driving people away especially youths);
 poor working conditions (e.g. low pay, informality,
low job security and inadequate social protection);
 poor occupational health and safety;
 Low emphasis and awareness on child labour
concepts at MAFC
Challenges Cont…
 low labour productivity particularly of
women and youth;
 limited access to information, markets
and adequate infrastructure;
 weak enforcement of labour related
legislation in rural areas; and
 weak inter-institutional collaboration.
Conclusion
 Awareness raising and increasing knowledge on
child labour elimination at national to village level
 Further mainstreaming child labour concerns in
ministerial plans and budget
 Child labour need to be considered as cross cutting
issues in all Ministerial interventions
The End.
ASANTE SANA