From Research to Action: The Use of Statistics and Impact Evaluations to Combat Child Labor and Forced Labor Internationally

• Activity Number: 228 - From Research to Action: The Use of Statistics and Impact Evaluations to Combat Child Labor Internationally
• Type: Topic Contributed
• Date/Time: Monday, July 31, 2017 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
• Sponsor: Statistics Without Borders
• Author(s): Kevin Hong* and Charita Castro* and Tina Faulkner* and Carolyn Huang* and Furio Rosati* and Lorenzo Guarcello* and Federico Blanco* and Michaëlle de Cock*
• Companies: US Department of Labor and US Department of Labor and US Department of Labor and US Department of Labor and Understanding Children's Work Project and Understanding Children's Work Project and International Labor Organization and International Labour Organization
• Keywords: Child Labor and Forced Labor ; Evidence-Based Policy Making ; Prevalence Survey ; National Statistics ; Impact Evaluations ; International Development

Abstract

This session will focus on highlighting the role statistics has played to advance the global fight against child labor and forced labor. The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL)'s research and evaluation staff and key academic and multi-lateral partners will discuss how their methodological developments, data, and analysis have raised public awareness about child labor and forced labor and fostered a growing evidence base of information on how best to eliminate it. It will also discuss evidence gaps and methodological questions that remain, and how to address them. This session is timely and relevant as all 193 member states of the United Nations come together to define a path for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which includes the promotion of "inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all" and a specific target to eradicate forced labor and human trafficking and to "secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour." Statistics, data, and rigorous evidence can help make progress on behalf of those exploited. This session will demonstrate how that can happen.