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UCW: Understanding Children's Work is a programme to combat child labour. The 1997 Amsterdam Conference on Combating the Most Intolerable Forms of Child Labour and the 1997 Oslo International Conference on Child Labour both drew attention to the urgent need for concerted global action to end child labour, and called for an expansion of information gathering, statistics and empirical research to help inform this action. The inter-agency programme, Understanding Children’s Work (UCW), was initiated by the International Labour Organization (ILO), UNICEF and the World Bank as one of the responses to the recommendations of the Amsterdam and Oslo conferences. Through a variety of research activities, the UCW Programme supports the partner agencies in improving statistical information on child labour in its various dimensions – its nature, extent, causes and consequences – as well as on what policy approaches are most effective in addressing it. The Programme’s inter-agency configuration and technical orientation leave it uniquely placed to act as a platform for research cooperation, policy dialogue, partnership building and knowledge exchange in child labour and related policy areas. As partner agency efforts accelerate towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (by 2015) and the elimination of worst forms (by 2016), these Programme functions will likely only grow in importance. A Steering Committee composed of senior management representatives from each of the three partner agencies is responsible for the establishment and oversight of the Programme’s overall strategic direction and goals. ==Statistics And Measurement: ''monitoring progress against child labour.''== The Statistics and Measurement component supports partner agency and government efforts to strengthen quantitative information on child labour needed for effective monitoring. The Programme’s unique access to a wide range of child labour datasets, from ILO, UNICEF and World Bank as well as from direct partnerships with national statistical offices, has enabled it to assemble perhaps the largest child labour database. The UCW survey database currently contains over 200 datasets for almost 100 countries; in two-thirds of these countries, data are available for more than one point in time. The database permits the generation of indicators regarding not only child labour and schooling, but also related issues such as youth employment and migration. This Programme component serves the partner agencies as a platform for developing common statistical concepts and terminology relating to child labour, in turn critical for clarity and consistency in child labour monitoring. In this context, UCW provided technical input to the development of the resolution on child labour statistics adopted by the 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS), and is promoting take-up of the new statistical standards contained in the resolution. In a related effort, support is extended through this component to developing and testing new research tools needed by the agencies to fill key information gaps in the child labour field. New research tools for extending information on children in worst forms of child labour other than hazardous are particularly important in this context. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「UCW: Understanding Children's Work」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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