National Action Plan on Child Labour (NAP II) 2020-2025.

The overall goal of the National Action Plan on Child Labour (NAP II) 2020-2025 is to eliminate child labour, including its worst forms in all the sectors of the economy in Malawi by 2025. The overall goal of the NAP II (2019-2025) will be achieved through the following objectives; 1) To create a conducive legal and policy environment for child labour elimination; 2) To build and strengthen the institutional and human resource capacity of stakeholders in child labour elimination; 3) To increase public knowledge and awareness on the evils of Child Labour and its effect on national development; 4) To engage in direct action to combat child labour through prevention, withdrawal, rehabilitation and re-integration of children withdrawn from child labour; 5) To mitigate the impact of chronic illnesses and HIV and AIDS in inducing Child Labour; 6) To improve child labour information availability and accessibility.
There are 6 thematic (priority) areas for the NAP II and these are (i) Legislative and policy framework; (ii) Capacity building; (iii) Awareness creation and advocacy; (iv) Prevention, withdrawal and reintegration; (v) Chronic Illnesses and HIV and AIDS in the context of Child Labour; and (vi) Child labour information database and availability of information. Follow some of the activities implemented in each thematic area: review legislation; identify hazardous work; mobilize resources; create awareness on the evils of child labour at all levels especially targeting the communities; Improve access to education; Train households affected by HIV on nutrition and healthy living; Link families affected by HIV to social protection mechanisms; Develop a comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system for child labour;