Jordan

With funding from the International Labor Affairs Bureau of the US Department of Labor, Save the Children Federation, Inc., along with its partners, YouthBuild International and the Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development, will implement an innovative 3.5 year, $3.9 million dollar project entitled “Promising Futures: Reducing Child Labor in Jordan through Education and Sustainable Livelihoods.”

The goal of the project is to reduce the number of children engaged in exploitive child labor (ECL), including the worst forms of child labor (WFCL) in Jordan, focusing on: construction, small workshops, manufacturing, the transport and storage industries, and child domestic workers, especially home bound girls.  Geographically, the project will serve nationally identified “pockets of poverty” located in the mostly rural governorates of Mafraq and Ma’an; and the urban areas of Amman and Zarqa, where the highest prevalence of child labor occurs. The project will work to reduce and prevent children from entering ECL in the targeted sectors and locations.  It will ensure they are provided with appropriate child-friendly, formal, non-formal, or informal educational services; work to mitigate hazardous working conditions for those over 16 years of age; and offer them and their families access to services to improve their livelihoods.  YBI will work closely with Save the Children, JOHUD, and the Ministry of Labor’s Vocational Training Corporation  (VTC) on collaborative initiatives to enable young people to enhance their leadership, employability, and life skills and to attain sustainable, safe livelihoods.