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From Science to Practice in the Prevention of Child Labor

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Community Prevention of Child Labor

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Abstract

In this chapter, we describe how empirical evidence on the causes of child labor is translated into preventive policymaking. The transfer of scientific research results is a two-step process, involving (a) the dissemination of knowledge and (b) community ownership. Accordingly, we first examine the role of science-practice chains in the dissemination of innovations; and second, we analyze the role of the different parties involved in the process. A better systematization of the types of child labor could contribute to the formulation of more precise and consistent intervention projects, with results indicators adjusted to theoretical expectations. Similarly, the detailed description of the progressive process of incorporation into the world of work would allow the implementation of long-term prevention strategies, with proximal and distal result indicators. Throughout the chapter, recommendations are made to develop a systemic approach to intervention, as well as to carry out preparatory actions to create an environment conducive to the reduction of child labor.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The descriptive data in this section is based on the Bureau of International Labor Affairs: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/our-work/child-forced-labor-trafficking/child-labor-cocoa

  2. 2.

    Perhaps one of the exceptions is assessments of conditional cash transfers. Among other possible results, the short- and long-term impact has been examined in schooling, medical care, labor insertion during adulthood, the reduction of child labor and the reduction of health problems in adolescence (Baez & Camacho, 2011). However, econometric analyzes have also predominated over the evaluation of the psychosocial impact on the ground.

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    Part of the success of conditional cash transfer programs has been attributed precisely to the combination of income redistribution policies with more or less comprehensive monitoring of the child’s situation

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Maya Jariego, I. (2021). From Science to Practice in the Prevention of Child Labor. In: Community Prevention of Child Labor. Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70810-8_8

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