Business to business market research solutions
Child labour free
certifications/solutions
Background
Child labour is viewed differently depending on the wealth of a
country. When families allow their children to work instead of
attending school, they generally are in extreme poverty and hardly know
what meal they will have the next day. Hence, appropriate means should
be sought with local organizations to cater basic education to such
children.Companies that outsource production know well their various suppliers in developing countries. The difficulty is with the suppliers or suppliers and further branch suppliers.
On one hand, with production volumes, clients can enforce to obtain lists of suppliers of suppliers. A third party can be appointed for accounting purposes to help control branch suppliers as long as accounts and invoices exist and can be verified.
On the other hand, when not possible, in given areas and for specific materials or processes, exhaustive labour/supplier sources can be searched and checked through business to business research techniques.
Objectives
This
service assesses exhaustively child labour, for a given sector, in a
given
geographical area.
When child labour cannot be traced in suppliers of suppliers and further branch suppliers, child labour free certification and documentation is provided explaining methodology and field appendices.
When some child labour is observed, either concerning drop outs or excluded from school, below a certain age (depending on country), solutions can be sought through local organizations to cater appropriate basic education solutions.
Many local NGOs comprise community, youth, women, religious, and private organizations that offer basic education to the poorest groups. They generally don’t have a specific approach but rather a holistic approach integrating health, income generating and many other activities. The main advantage of these NGOs is that they grow within communities, where governmental programs have difficulty operating.
If satisfactory development programmes are catered to concerned child workers, even if some labour is combined with basic education, child certification can be provided too with documentation explaining solutions through active local organizations.
Co-operation
1WR is glad to design and help you in these efforts by organizing
controls as business to business research interviews under market
research’s code of practice. Also, World View Literacy Information
& Research (WVLIR), an NGO formed by researchers, can facilitate
proactive solutions
to cater basic education through local organizations.Related information on this proposal:
- World View Literacy Information & Research
- Basic education NGO checks in Rajasthan
- Alexandre
Khan (summary bio)
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