PPIC-Work

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PPIC-Work

• Promoting and Protecting the Interests of
  Children who Work

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Key elements of PPIC-Work

• WHAT?
• WHO?
• HOW?

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PPIC-Work What is it?

• Promoting and Protecting the Interests of
  Children Who Work
• Model indirect loans to working children
• Goals
• Improving working conditions
• Improving learning opportunities

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PPIC-Work Who is the target?

• Economically active children and youth aged 6-18
• Cairo, Aswan and Qena
• Girls and boys employed in micro and small
  enterprises receiving loans from microfinance
  institutions (MFIs)
• Working to help businesses expand

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Challenges of Working with Urban Youth

• Working children doubly disadvantaged under the
  legal system
• Laws that prevent children from working are
  ineffective
• They remove possible avenues of protection (e.g.,
  unions)

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PPIC-Work How does it work?

• Through MFIs
• Loan officers long and positive relationships
  with business owners can be leveraged
• Credit means and motivation for making
  improvements in the business (Dual purpose loan)
• Microfinance programs are self-financing
  sustainability

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Addressing the Problem through MFIs

• Training packages for loan officers to improve
  working conditions for children
• Hazard identification and mitigation
• Child rights
• Gender equality

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Improving Workplace Conditions

• Identify the hazards (with business owner)
• Connect hazards to workplace productivity
• Negotiate solution, possibly involving credit
• Follow up

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Improving Learning Opportunities

• Education Support Program helping working
  children stay in school
• Computer Game business skills and business
  ethics
• Learning Through Work life, business and
  technical skills on the job

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Youth Meeting Challenges

• Working children have also received training on
  gender and child rights
• Act in own interest
• Negotiated better working conditions
• Female participant negotiated with father and
  brothers to have a career
• Change to safer sectors