Project profile — Children Lead the Way

Results achieved as of the end of the project (July 2016) include: 1) 14,835 working children who have access to quality primary and secondary education, 2) 5,617 working children who have received technical and vocational training through centres, and through participation in apprenticeship programmes, 3) teacher training in five countries on child education, issues faced by working children, their rights and life skills, 4) training 14,000 working children to acquire certain life skills such as leadership, self-esteem, human rights, gender equality and financial education, 5) 89 organizations and groups of working girls and boys have been stabilized and strengthened, 88.9% of whom have noted that they are taking tangible measures, such as taking decisions at meetings, and 6) 12 policies implemented to address the issues of working children and protect their rights in more than 40 government entities from municipal to national level. These activities have contributed to: (i) increase secondary school enrolment rates in Nicaragua, Peru and Kenya; (ii) increase the government's commitment to better support its cooperation with civil society actors in Nicaragua and Peru; and thus (iii) improve structures for the protection of working children in Nicaragua, Burkina Faso and Kenya, such as policy implementation.