National Action Plan for the Elimination of Child Labor

The National Action Plan for the Elimination of Child Labor is a national cross-sectoral plan of Tanzania. Its main objective is to reduce the incidence of child labor and worst forms of child labor at the household and community level and in all sectors of the national economy both in rural and urban areas in the short-run, and putting in place the requisite economic, social, policy and institutional foundations for elimination of all forms of child labor in the longer-term.
The Plan aims to help eliminate food insecurity by implementing school feeding programs in all primary schools in the food insecure areas or during periods of the year with food insecurity.
For reducing rural poverty, the Plan provides for implementation of consolidated anti-poverty response and child-sensitive social protection systems including legislative and policy frameworks, institutional capacity and resource allocation to support prevention and response to protection-related risks; strengthening economic capability of the disadvantaged and chronically poor households undertaken to reduce the need to supply child labor in the labor market; putting in place policies, legislation, and programs in the area of social protection to reach all children and families, in particular the most vulnerable or excluded, and do not inadvertently expose them to protection risks; allocating adequate resources for social provisioning (social insurance) generally and specifically to prevention and response to worst forms of child labor; human resource development in the form of knowledge and skill development for the disadvantaged and poor people; speeding up the planned establishment by the government of the Women Development Bank in order to empower women access to affordable credit; and establishing and expanding credit provision to economic cooperative societies for the disadvantaged people.
To enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, the Plan seeks to encourage local governments to develop dynamic priority areas for allocation of its resources and for supporting local private activities and investments; and local government level supporting local investors to access the Bank of Tanzania facility for guaranteeing small and medium enterprises when seeking loans from financial institutions.
According to the Plan, process and output indictors will be monitored through the reports from the Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies. Monitoring and reporting processes in Government include annual performance reporting which provide information on outputs from activities and programs. These results are reported in quarterly, mid-year and annual performance reports, as well as in sector reviews and public expenditure reviews.