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MALAWI COMMEMORATES WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR
Mr Mwandidya presenting a certificate to one participant and (right) Nangwale making a speech
The STED project team visiting one of the gardens and (Right) women showcasing their produce
Glad tidings are on the horizon for smallholder Roseberry Farms in Michiru Blantyre.
women farmers who engage in open space vegetable The first meeting, which took place in the afternoon of
cultivation at Bvumbwe in Thyolo, as the Skills Trade 27th June 2017, saw the team discuss with the anchor
and Economic Diversification (STED) projects work farmers of Roseberry Farms and the Tradelines corpo-
plan aims to enhance their capacity in productivity ration, a service provider which has been contracted to
improvement, disease control, as well as equiping provide entrepreneurship, business development and
them with basic business principles and life skills. gender training.
As an initial activity on the work plan, the ILO STED The second meeting took place at Bvumbwe Research
project organized an inception meeting for the capac- Station in the morning of 28th June and brought togeth-
ity building program at Bvumbwe from 27 to 29 June er the Bvumbwe Research Team, which has been
2017. This meeting was organized with the objective contracted to develop training materials for the women
of introducing the key partners and service providers farmers on crop management and pest and disease
in the support interventions, and to agree on the roll control skills, and the Tradelines Corporation team.
out modalities of the programme. The ILO STED The third meeting was conducted in the afternoon of
Project team had an opportunity of visiting Bvumbwe 28th, and it involved the women leaders of Chinkwende
women farmers, Bvumbwe research station and village. It was aimed at introducing to them the team of
trainers and also informing the chief of the area of the
upcoming training and projects that the ILO is engaging
in with the women farmers of the area. The meeting
also accorded an opportunity for the project team to
visit women gardens.
During these meetings, it was agreed that training
manuals should be shared with Roseberry farms to ap-
preciate the content that the women farmers are get-
ting. It was also agreed that the training for women
should commence during the third week of July 2017.
Apart from introducing the two service providers
(Bvumbwe Research and Tradeline Corporation) to the
anchor farmer and the women farmers, the meetings
also resulted in strengthened coordination mechanism
for smooth implementation of the program, as well as
ILO Chief Technical Advisor for STED Naomy Lintini (Right) setting timelines for the implementation of the pro-
in one of the discussions gramme.
ILO Chief Technical Advisor for Child Labour Projects, Miss Wangui Irimu (right) sharing documents with
Elaine McKay and (right) the Directors discussing with the officials from Malawi
On 25th May 2017, Japan Tobacco International (JTI) of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development,
directors from Geneva visited the ARISE projects in ILO-IPEC in Malawi, Winrock International, District Child
Malawi, with the aim of appreciating the sustainability Labour Committee and Centre for Youth Empowerment
of the work on the ground. and Civic Education (CYECE), visited Chiwoko Service
Outlet Centre in Lilongwe district.
The mission comprised of Social Programs Director,
Elaine McKay, Director for Community Investment Dr. During the visit, the team was briefed on the activities that
Stefan Rissi and Tatiana Varlamova, Director for the ILO and the implementing partners are undertaking to
Corporate Social Responsibility, responsible for Busi- achieve the objectives of the ARISE project.
ness Engagement. In her comment, Elaine McKay commended the works that
The team, accompanied by officials from the Ministry the International Labour Organization and all the imple-
menting partners are doing in the fight against child labour.
ILO, LUANAR, ENTER PARTNERSHIP ON INCOPORATING CHILD LABOUR ISSUES INTO CURRICULUM
which are; mainstream issues of child the last semester of 2016/17 and first
The International Labour Organi-
and forced labour in the Universitys semester of 2017/2018 academic
zation (ILO), under the IPEC/Child
academic programmes through de- years.
labour projects in Malawi, and the
velopment of supplementary mod-
Lilongwe University of Agriculture According to the programme docu-
ules, Undertaking and promoting re- ment, the Lilongwe University of Agri-
and Natural Resources (LUANAR)
search on child and forced labour culture and Natural Resources
have entered into an action pro-
through postgraduate studies and to (LUANAR) was chosen because it is
gramme agreement that will see
build faculty capacity on child labour one of the few agricultural higher-
issues of child labour being main-
and forced labour issues. learning institutions in Malawi that
streamed into the universitys aca-
produces a good number of agricul-
demic programs. In line with these objectives, the Uni- ture graduates every year.
versity earmarked four academic pro-
The action programme agreement, grammes as a starting point for main- The project document, further says
which is titled Mainstreaming child stream programme. The faculties are that the action programme has four
and forced labour in Lilongwe Uni- Bachelor of Science in Gender and main target groups namely; students
versity of Agriculture and Natural Development, Diploma in Youth De- enrolling into the university, the aca-
Resources (LUANAR) academic velopment Work, Bachelor of Sci- demic staff and their departments,
programmes will run for a period ence in Natural Resources Manage- social partners such as , and mem-
of 8 months from June 2017 to ment (Wildlife and Ecotourism) and bers of NGOs, civil society and tradi-
March 2018. Bachelor of Science in Agricultural tional leaders. The collaborating in-
Extension. stitutions will be the government of
The action programme will target Malawi through the ministry of labour,
The modules will be mainstreamed ministry of Education and ministry of
to achieve three objectives at the
for students in years 2, 3 and 4 for Agriculture.
end of the implementation period,
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respond to the needs of the individual,
the economy and Malawi at large.
Child Labour Projects Support Study on Link Between Conflict and Disasters and Child Labour
Upon completion of the study by the consultant, the ILO, in
collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, Youth, Sports and
Manpower Development organized a meeting to validate the
report of the study.
The meeting took place at Sagecoa Golden Peacock Hotel in
Lilongwe on 20th June, 2017.
Speaking as he officially opened the meeting, Deputy Labour
Commissioner in the Ministry of Labour, Youth, Sports and
Manpower Development, Mr. Wafwile Msukwa commended
ILO for supporting the study saying there was little infor-
mation on the link between disasters and conflicts and child
labour.
We do not make decisions out of the blues. We may seem
A participant making a contribution during
like we do not have conflicts and disasters now as a country
the meeting but we may have such eventualities in the future so this study
As part of ILOs contribution towards this years World will prove important even in the future Said Msukwa.
Day against Child Labour commemorations, the ARISE/ In her remarks, ILO Chief Technical Advisor Ms. Wangui Iri-
ECLT child labour projects supported a study to assess mu said the study will be important to all the partners that go
and document the link that exists between child labour into places of disasters and conflicts with humanitarian re-
and disasters and conflict in Malawi. sponse as they will consider issues of child labour.
The study was conducted to ensure that the theme of this the ILO does not go into times of calamity, but we assist in
years commemoration was contextualized, to enable improving livelihood in the aftermaths. However this study will
stakeholders to come up with messages that were specif- help both the humanitarian response and the recovery. Said
ic to Malawian settings. Irimu.