Resources on social finance
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Presentation
Risk of child labour in microfinance: findings from the ILO and 60 Decibels
10 August 2023
Approximately 160 million children worldwide (almost 1 in 10) are in child labour. The ILO deploys a range of tools and approaches to combat this scourge, including access to finance. The logic is that, if parents have access to enterprise training and appropriate financial services, they can increase household income and manage risks more effectively, and perhaps not have to resort to child labour. But, in some circumstances, access to finance can have the opposite effect, and actually create a demand for child labour. Research by the ILO's Social Finance Programme and 60Decibels yielded interesting findings about the impact and risk of child labour in microfinance.
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Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth
Presentation by Ms. Azita Berar Awad, ILO, at the high-level event on Youth Employment for Peace and Resilience held in New York on 20 September 2017
20 September 2017
The presentation introduces the Recommendation 205 (2017) on Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience adopted by the International Labour Conference in June 2017 and highlights the thematic priority of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth to support youth in fragile situations.