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Child labour projects in Uganda




The United States Department of Labor (USDOL) has devoted over $14.7 million since 1999 to combat child labor in Uganda. USDOL has also contributed over $27.5 million to regional projects in Africa which include Uganda.

USDOL funded a $3.6 million 4-year ORACLE project implemented by IRC and AVSI, which ended in August 2007, and withdrew or prevented 5,657 children from exploitive labor in Northern Uganda. USDOL also funded the $3 million ILO-IPEC project, Combating and Preventing HIV/AIDS-induced Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa: Pilot Action in Uganda and Zambia, which ended in December 2008. In total across both countries, the project withdrew 2,642 children and prevented an additional 2,072 children from exploitive child labor through the provision of education, 2,942 of them from Uganda. USDOL funded the $14.5 million 4-year Combating Exploitive Child Labor through Education in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Ethiopia Together (KURET) project with additional funds by World Vision ($5.8 million), which ended in March 2009. In Uganda, the project withdrew and prevented 8,176 children from exploitive child labor.

USDOL also currently funds a 4-year (2008-2012), $4.8 million project, Support for the Preparatory Phase of the Uganda National Action Plan for the Elimination of Child Labor (SNAP), implemented by ILO-IPEC. The project aims to withdraw 2,712 children and prevent 5,426 children from exploitive child labor in agriculture, commercial sexual exploitation, fishing, domestic work, construction, mining, quarrying, and the urban informal sector. The project will also contribute to the development of "child labor free zones" in Wakiso, Rakai, and Mbale Districts. SNAP will continue to strengthen Uganda’s legal, policy, institutional and social areas, including the Ugandan Decent Work Country Program. From 2007 to 2011, USDOL will fund ($5.5 million) a Livelihoods, Education and Protection to End Child Labor (LEAP) project. It operates in Kitgum, Lira, Pader, Gulu and Moroto districts, and aims to withdraw and prevent 11,275 children from exploitative child labor.

By overlapping child labor projects in Uganda, USDOL will maintain an in-country presence and ongoing relationship with the Government of Uganda for nine years (from 2003 to 2012), providing support to at least 36,074 direct beneficiaries.



MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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