Development Opportunities For Child Domestic Workers (CDW) in Dhaka City Phase - II
Development Opportunities For Child Domestic Workers (CDW) in Dhaka City Phase - II
Development Opportunities For Child Domestic Workers (CDW) in Dhaka City Phase - II
For
By
Plan Bangladesh
Acronyms
BBS
BNWLA
BIAG
CCCD
CDW
CWG
CP
CR
DB
DCC
DOCDW
GAD
NM
PB
POVC
PU
PULTP
QPE
RH
UNICEF
UNCRC
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Overview of Phase II
This is a follow up phase of the project titled Development Opportunities for Child Domestic Workers
(CDW) in Dhaka city. Phase II started working with a total of 400 CDWs from Dhaka City corporation
north zone. Following the recent assessment recommendations ,learnings and challenges the phase II has
been designed and proposed for implementation for a period from January 2013 to December 2014 with
the existing implementation partner Nari Maitree(NM) focusing more on advocacy jointly with
Domestic Workers Rights Network(DWRN) to approve draft Domestic Workers protection and welfare
policy 2010,through which the project is expecting a decent working environment for the CDWs
supporting with a strong awareness package for the duty bearers, employers and other referent
stakeholders, Awareness raising on ILO convention 189 will be a contributing factor to approve the policy
through mobilizing the relevant stakeholders to create demand for decent work environment for the
CDWs.while facilitating a learning opportunity through creating a child friendly environment and building
capacity of the community mobilizes. Improved life skill package including protective behavior, child
protection and demand based marketable vocational training will contributed to develop self strength and
alternative lively hood opportunities for the CDWs. This phase has initiated to develop a participatory
monitoring framework through children consultation.
Nari matre partner of phase I will continue for phase II as they posses skill and has experiences on the
issue of CDW and already is one of the key player in the area of advocacy to establish rights of the CDWs
To achieve its focus the phase II considered the following goal and objectives;
Goal:
To improve the quality of life for disadvantaged girl children, working as domestic workers.
Specific Objectives:
1) To advocate at national level jointly with Domestic Workers Rights Network(DWRN) and ILO before
the policy makers to approve draft Domestic Workers Protection and welfare Policy 2010 with other
network members through different advocacy event and celebrating 12 June international labor day
focusing on child domestic workers
2) To raise awareness of the selected communities, domestic workers parents and their employers and
duty bearers to create demand for approving the policy and thus creating demand to mobilize policy
makers regarding ILO convention 189.
through facilitating Non-formal
education, comprehensive Life skill training ,child rights and protection, protective behavior and
life skill training sessions through creating a child friendly environment, and using entertaining
approach and child friendly materials so that the CDWs enjoy the sessions and get into it
3)To build capacity of 400 girls domestic workers from 8-18 years
4) To organize vocational (YED) training for the selected CDW for selected trade based on the criteria
developed through consultation with the CDW so that they can withdraw themselves from domestic work.
The following component has been considered to achieve the above objectives:
Advocacy at local and national level through networking and alliance building
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Awareness rising through social mobilization including CP incident reporting procedure and training for
communities, duty bearers, employers
Life skill training which included child protection, protective behavior and non-formal education linking
towards formal education.
Vocational training and create alternate decent job opportunity for the CDWs based on the selection
criteria.
All the above components will be implemented with a bunch of activities following through its Child
Centered Community development approach.
Within the project period the project is expecting the following results:
Government of Bangladesh agreed to approved Domestic workers protection and welfare policy 2010.
Raised communities, parents and employers and Duty bearers including LEA awareness for a decent
work environment for their domestic worke to care for and protect them as well as workers are
empowered to protect and prevent themselves from hazarders ,working condition, and abusive situation
at their work place. CDW who received vocational training are engaging in job market.
Advocacy and lobby to approve the Domestic workers protection and welfare policy 2010 would be key
contributer for sustainability of this project while other activities will play an important role to take the
project towards the sustainability . DWRN is a established and focused network in the area of domestic
workers who has a mandate and commitment in association with other 60 organizations to carry out
advocacy and lobby to create a decent work environment for the CDW so that they can develop their self
confidence to protect them from abusive situation. All the above will be materialized with the support
from Bangladesh government who has commitment to ensure child rights and protection. As it is an
priority issue of the government thus the CDW issue will sustainable .
The total required budget for this Phase II is USD 246,899 for the period of Jan 13 to December 14.
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The root causes of child domestic labor are poverty and its feminization, social exclusion, lack of education,
gender and ethnic discrimination, domestic violence, displacement, rural-urban migration and loss of
parents. The kids who are working as domestic servants in often exploitative conditions that offer little
hope of a better future. Poor rural and urban slum families often send their kids to the live and work with
well-to-do urban families, often as a means to improve their own difficult economic conditions and to
provide some path to a better future for their children. Their working hours are long, breaks are few and
far between, wages are paltry, educational opportunities are minimal and often there are reported cases of
abuse. In fact they are not under the umbrella of country legal frameworks; these children are not
protected by labor laws to the extent they should be. They are not enjoying their rights and grow and
stay in a UN protective environment thus no recreation, nutrition and a normal safe and secure social life.
They are not enjoying their child hood at all.
Different organizations in Bangladesh are currently working on safeguarding child domestic workers'
rights. Ain-o-Salish Kendra (ASK) and Saishab Bangladesh have been playing an important role in
addressing this issue. Drishtipat has joined ASK in this noble cause to help improve the life of the child
domestic worker in Bangladesh. Since 2004 Plan Bangladesh has been working for girl child domestic
workers. Initially the focus of the project was non-formal education; gradually since 2009 the project
shifted its focus towards protection.
The project completed its first phase in December 2012 in order to improve the standard of life for
children working as domestic labor by developing their life skills and empowering them through nonformal education, recreation, counseling, skill development training and awareness raising with the
implementing partner Nari Matre (NM) a national non government organization.
To address the issues faced by the domestic workers, especially girls, the project is extending up to
December 2014 with the existing location in Dhaka city Corporation area. Following the findings and
recommendations from the recent assessment the proposed phase is focusing on advocacy and
vocational training including improved awareness and life skill training package with the expectation to
facilitate the improve livelihood and self confidence to reduce abusive situation and thus vulnerability.
During this phase, the program has learnt the following lessons and faced challenges while implementing
different interventions for the CDWs.
Lesson learnt during first phase:
CDWs participation in the project depends on her employer's willingness and motivation.
Employers feel comfort to send CDW if the center is nearer to their residence.
None-Formal Education and skill development training open a new window for CDW to explore
their hidden talent as well as increase access in mainstreaming education and explore potential
livelihood option thus mainstreaming their rights.
Participation in different events and life skill training helps them to raise their voice for
establishing their rights.
Learning centre gives them space where they can share their own issues with their peers.
There is a strong need to advocate at national level focusing on decent work environment of
CDWs
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Ooffering
improved life skill package and vocational training in an integrated way which will ensure
a protective environment and reduce the vulnerability of the CDWs as well as promoting their
rights and involving in decision making process..
Challenges:
Frequent changes of working places by CDWs and shift houses by the employers contributed in
increasing drop out.
CDWs are prone to child marriage due to their parents wishes and lack of awareness.
Lengthy process of legal support discourages CDWs to seek legal support even when they are
abused.
As preventive measure employer are not interested to register CDW in the police station.
CDWs are facing problem of Birth registration as they dont have any supporting documents for
Birth registration.
Id want to go back here to the 18 recommendations in the evaluation report as these were very specific
and valuable, and need to translate those more structured into objectives and activities for Phase II. In the
below Based on the above lessons learnt and assessment recommendations Plan Bangladesh set up the
project development objective for the 2nd phase is to improve the quality of life of 400 child domestic
workers in zone 5 of Dhaka North City Corporation by empowering through advocacy at national and local
levels through raising awareness of right holders including communities & duty bearers, Improved life skill
training and created opportunity to improve livelihood through vocational training.
2. JUSTIFICATION OF PHASE II PROJECT
Plan Bangladesh successfully completed first phase of the project in December 2012. The project took
many initiatives for providing Learning centre based services under Enabling Environment program of Plan
Bangladesh. The project established Community Watch Group (CWG) and provided non-formal education,
facilitated multidimensional trainings, meetings, workshops and advocacy for improving their standard of
lives as well as empowered them to solve their issues and claim their rights. The project addressed the
issues like child rights, physical enabling and protective environment in the context of gender equity and
working with adults.
On the basis of lesson learnt and successes made so far and with continued support of the donor ASN Bank
Plan Bangladesh will continue its support for CDWs. The achievement the project made during the first
phase needs to further enhanced with some specific focus. ..
Plan Bangladesh by this time gained more knowledge and skill about the situation of CDWs and
throughout Plans participatory process it also came to know the way out of their vulnerability encourage
them to extend the project for another phase following through child centered community development
approach. Both Plan and its partner organization NM to address this challenge through providing
advocacy and other relevant interventions. There is an increasing demand from the project participants for
training on vocational training which the project will provide during this phase. Also a coordination and
collaborative mechanism with ILO and DWRN to support in raising their voices at national plat form.
The project has identified some areas of improvement in its implementation strategy. The experiences
from last years implementations some facts and findings identified which helped to design the project that
includes the requirement for constructive planning of activities and enhance monitoring and supervisions.
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Children deserved different services to mainstreaming formal education. Part of the comprehensive
support required safe place for the CDW to share their issues and ideas and increase their confidence
through receiving improved life skill package.
Goal:
To improve the quality of life for disadvantaged girl children, working as domestic workers.
Specific Objectives:
1)To advocate at national level jointly with Domestic Workers Rights Network(DWRN) and ILO before
the policy makers to approve draft Domestic Workers Protection and welfare Policy 2010 with other
network members through different advocacy event and celebrating 12 June international labor day
focusing on child domestic workers
2) To raise awareness of the selected communities, domestic workers parents and their employers and
duty bearers to create demand for approving the policy and thus creating demand to mobilize policy
makers regarding ILO convention 189.
through facilitating Non-formal
education, comprehensive Life skill training ,child rights and protection, protective behavior and
life skill training sessions through creating a child friendly environment, and using entertaining
approach and child friendly materials so that the CDWs enjoy the sessions and get into it
3)To build capacity of 400 girls domestic workers from 8-18 years
4) To organize vocational (YED) training for the selected CDW for selected trade based on the criteria
developed through consultation with the CDW so that they can withdraw themselves from domestic work.
Major components:
Advocacy at local and national level through networking and alliance building
Awareness rising through social mobilization including CP incident reporting procedure and training for
communities, duty bearers, employers
Life skill training which included child protection, protective behavior and non-formal education linking
towards formal education.
Vocational training and create alternate decent job opportunity for the CDWs based on the selection
criteria.
3. PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, PARTNERS AND STAFFING
Role of Nair Matre:
NM will be responsible to implement the project including budget planning, monitoring and controlling.
NM management with the support of the project manager is the overall responsible body to supervise
monitor and review day to day activities and minimizes the internal and external risks and threats of the
project intervention. NM will organize field level and monthly working group meetings. Ensure
management, monitoring and supervision support for the respective project locations based on the need
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with the support from the local structure. According to the project requirement NM will provide reports,
and will take follow-up actions.
Role of Plan
Plan Bangladesh will be responsible for developing guide line on child protection reporting and
responding mechanism and ensuring formation and development of CPG.
Plan will provide support for any Child Protection and legal (if needed) training.
Organize monitoring and technical support for reorganizing improved life skill training package and
vocational training (other than legal).
Financial and program monitoring.
National and international level policy advocacy and communication.
Project implementing partner Organ gram
Executive Director-1
Project
Manager/Coordinator-1
Training
officer - 1
Project Officer -2
Support Staff -1
4. PROJECT DESIGN/ELEMENTS:
Program Approach and implementation strategies
To address the issues faced by girl domestic workers, Plan Bangladesh is proposing a twenty months
(January 2013-December 2014) the development opportunity for the Child Domestic Worker project for
these children residing in the city of Dhaka. Child Centered community development approach would be
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the key approach of implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project, While multi-faceted, the
primary components of this framework are childrens and communities participation that CCCD is
dependent upon children and communities participation, ensuring that they understand and embrace this
approach will only strengthen program implementation and ameliorate the resulting achievements based
on the objectives.
Partnership and alliance building
The project will be implemented through direct partnership with national organization Nair Matre
currently who has been implementing this project. Apart from the formal partnership the project will
establish alliance with DWRN and ILO for its advocacy component. To create a protective environment
and ensure legal services the project will have it alliance with Bangladesh National Womens layers
Association (BNWLA) to ensure legal services for the CDW according to their need
Policy advocacy
Advocacy at different levels would be the key implementing strategy of this project and it will focus on
domestic workers protection and welfare policy and will raise mass peoples awareness thus create demand
for creating a decent working environment for the child domestic workers through different advocacy and
awareness initiative
Capacity building of CDWs
Capacity building of CDWs through life skill training package will help them in building their capacity and
confidence thus reduce their vulnerability.
Establish linkages
The project will establish linkages with the available private and public service providing agencies, such as,
health, education and psychosocial counseling.
Primary target audiences:
Full time and part time girl child domestic workers from 8-below 18 will be the primary target of this
project within Dhaka City Corporation zone Number 05.
Secondary (indirect) Target Groups
Local community including groups, Local Government (City Corporation), journalist, teachers,
community leaders, youth groups, law enforcing agencies & other duty bearers.
The parents including the family member and the guardians of 400 CDWs will also be the target
groups.
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Ministry of Women & Children Affairs and Ministry of labor and youth
employment.
Member organization of DWRN.:
2.Raised communities, parents and employers and Duty bearers including LEA awareness for a decent
work environment for their domestic workers
to care for and protect them
3. Targeted domestic workers are empowered to protect and prevent themselves from hazarders
,working condition, and abusive situation at their work place
4 CDW who received vocational training are engaging in job market
Roles and responsibilities of the associated Stakeholders:
Stakeholders
Employers
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1) Domestic workers protection and prevention welfare policy 2010 approved as a result of national level
policy advocacy.
2) Domestic Child abuse cases are reported
3)Number of parents, community including CWG and duty bearers will create a protective environment
for the children working at their home.
4) Number of CDWs increased their confidence level through facilitation of improved life skill
training.
5)CDWs are finding alternative livelihood options through receiving vocational training.
Activities
Besides regular visits, quarterly meetings with network and forums working on CDWs and CWG,
employers, parents and law enforcing agencies in each centre will be organized, especially to keep up the
motivation among employers on child domestic worker issue like domestic workers welfare policy, Child
labor and hazardous works for children, child protection, CRC and others.
Organize training and orientation for the duty bearers including law enforcing agencies and right
holders on domestic workers welfare policy and basic CP and CR issues.
Formation and or reactivation of CWG consist with employers, ward commissioners (especially
female), teachers, lawyers, doctors, journalists and law enforcement agencies.
Organize regular meeting with the CWG (CPG) to bold their knowledge and skill on the issues of
CDW.
4) Number of CDWs increased their literacy and life skills through facilitation of improved life skill
training package.
Activities:
Non-formal education, comprehensive Life skill training ,child rights and protection, protective behavior
and life skill training sessions will be organized through creating child friendly environment, and using
entertaining approach and child friendly materials so that the CDWs enjoy the sessions and get into it,
through which the CDWs will be able to build their negotiation skill and increasing capacity to protect
them from abusive situation and thus reduce their vulnerability.
Review and modify the existing life skill training package with a focus towards child friendly
approach.
Cultural Sessions and art practice will be organized to explore CDWs potentiality and to create a
recreational and entertaining environment among the CDWs.
Theater for development will be organized for the CDWs to raise awareness among them and also
for the other relevant stakeholders.
As part of regular monitoring and follow up of CDW and their employers door to door visit will be
carried out.
Centre set up- will be carried out for all CDWs at 20 centers and each centre will accommodate 20
CDWs, where NFE and other services like health, recreational facilities, counseling and skill based
training will be provided. There will be one trained and skilled teacher for each centre; they will
conduct non-formal sessions with the technical inputs from Plan education program sessions as
well as will provide counseling and arrange recreational facilities and activities. The teachers will
also be responsible for home visits to mobilize employers.
5) CDWs are finding alternative livelihood options through organized vocational training:
Activities:
Provide trade based vocational training. The training will be provided to select CDWs in order to
upgrade their skills to engage either in job and or product market as an alternative livelihood
option. Vocational training will be provided with the linkage of the available facilities. Following
the market research done by Plan Youth Economic Development(YED) program for its vocational
training component he following trade will be considered as marketable vocational training;
Industrial sewing and designing, Electrical control and house wearing, electronics technology,
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refreegeter and air condition maintenance, automobile and ICT Following the eligible criteria the
children will be engaged in different trade.
Capacity building for staffs:
Training on multi-grade teaching learning process and CR, CP will be conducted for the newly joined CM
and other staff. Most of the training for staff capacity building is completed, so the above mentioned
training will be given for build up the capacity of the staff so that project will be implemented smoothly.
6. Assumption
Political situation of the country stable & government policy towards NGO works remain
unchanged.
GO-NGO relationship favorable and no rise of fundamentalism.
MoU between Plan and NM signed and resource available on time.
Committed & experienced staff/volunteers available for running the project ensuring qualitative &
quantitative aspects.
7. Sustainability
Efforts to improve the quality of life for child domestic workers, especially the lives of girls, should not end
with this project. Therefore, Plan Bangladesh will implement strategies that will not only have a lasting
effect on the children involved during the funded period, but also will create opportunities for more child
domestic workers to benefit for years to come and prevent children to become CDW. Through its
advocacy and lobby to approve Domestic workers protection and welfare policy-2010 and create
awareness thus demand to sign ILO convention 189 will create a sustainable momentum for this project.
Advocacy will continue even if Plan withdraw its initiative still it will continue as CDWs are considered
highly disadvantaged group and government is also giving emphasis on the issue of decent work
environment and rights of the CDWs AS government ratified CRC and country is going to approve
amended children Act 2012 very soon, all these legal frame work will play an important role to
mainstream CDWs rights. Moreover
The training and awareness activities involving the CDWs will
increase their knowledge on child rights and provide them with skills that will generate opportunities for
better employment and exposure to more resources in the future. Social mobilization and awareness
raising sessions for the community and current employers will also enhance their understanding of the
issues faced by CDWs and, hopefully, cause them to change the way in which they interact with their child
aide.
During this phase partners capacity will be strengthen in the area of advocacy, and participatory
monitoring. They have been working in the area of CDW since long and they have technical knowledge to
support and manage the project. Capacities of the PNGOs, to continue this initiative beyond the funding
period. The organization will link up projects legal protection services with the governments national
legal service delivery system so that the victim of violence will continue to receive appropriate services
from the system. Approval of domestic workers protection and welfare policy and its practice will be
monitored by DWRN after the end of the project If necessary, monitoring of implementation of policies
and practices will be connected with regular program of DWRN which will be supported by government
and donor agencies. Completion of vocational training will create opportunity for the selected CDWs to
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withdraw themselves from domestic workers job and thus ensuring them with a better livelihood option.
Duty bearers will mobilize themselves to support the CDW through registering them in the local police
station and through establishing a reporting and responding mechanism for the CP victims As the project
will advocate for policies and practice changes, the organization is hopeful that the incidence of child
abuse, exploitation and others will reduce comparing the previous years within project target areas.
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Activity
Training:
Project Management Training 01
person
Basic Training on CP Part-time staff
CP refresher for CM
1st quarter
Janu
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Feb,
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Mar,
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2nd quarter
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3rd quarter
4th quarter
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2nd quarter
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June,
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July,
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Nov,
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Opportunity cost
Day Observation (Child rights week)
Day Observation (Child rights )
through Art exhibition
Day Observation (Child labour day)
through Art exhibition
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