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04AMMAN277
2004-01-13 06:59:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Amman
Cable title:
U.S.-FUNDED ILO CHILD LABOR PROJECT GETS UNDERWAY
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UNCLAS AMMAN 000277
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
LABOR FOR DOL/ILAB
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ELAB PHUM SOCI PGOV JO
SUBJECT: U.S.-FUNDED ILO CHILD LABOR PROJECT GETS UNDERWAY
Sensitive but unclassified--please protect accordingly. Not
for publication on the Internet.
UNCLAS AMMAN 000277
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
LABOR FOR DOL/ILAB
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ELAB PHUM SOCI PGOV JO
SUBJECT: U.S.-FUNDED ILO CHILD LABOR PROJECT GETS UNDERWAY
Sensitive but unclassified--please protect accordingly. Not
for publication on the Internet.
1. (U) The Ministry of Labor announced on January 5 the
commencement of a one milion USD ILO project to combat child
labor in Jordan. To be undertaken with the cooperation of the
Ministries of Education and Social Development, it aims to
rehabilitate working children under 18 years of age, helping
their families earn a livelihood and send the children to
school. The project hopes to reach 500 families over a three
year period.
2. (SBU) Ministry of Labor Child Labor Unit (CLU) head Nihaya
Dabdoub stressed to poloff that, while this is an ILO
project, under the Ministry's MOU with the ILO, the CLU and
the National Steering Committee on Child Labor will be
working in close cooperation with the ILO. The CLU aims to
take over the project financially and administratively at the
end of 2006, and its functions are already incorporated in
the draft National Strategy to Combat Child Labor, expected
to be implemented beginning this year.
3. (SBU) ILO Regional Director Taleb Rifai confirmed that the
Ministry of Labor approved the selection of project head
Mohammed Tarawneh in December. He also indicated that the
project has identified facilities it will begin using soon.
(Note: The project will share a building with the DOL-funded
ILO project on social dialogue. End note.) He stated that the
project has been on track for a few months; the timing of the
announcement was a function of his being in town and other
logistical issues. Rifai noted, however, the difficulties the
project had faced in obtaining a mutually agreeable project
leader.
4. (SBU) COMMENT: This is the second USDOL-funded project in
Jordan, the country where the ILO now has the most project
dollars at work within the region. It addresses a need that
the GOJ, ILO and the USG have mutually identified.
GNEHM
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
LABOR FOR DOL/ILAB
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ELAB PHUM SOCI PGOV JO
SUBJECT: U.S.-FUNDED ILO CHILD LABOR PROJECT GETS UNDERWAY
Sensitive but unclassified--please protect accordingly. Not
for publication on the Internet.
1. (U) The Ministry of Labor announced on January 5 the
commencement of a one milion USD ILO project to combat child
labor in Jordan. To be undertaken with the cooperation of the
Ministries of Education and Social Development, it aims to
rehabilitate working children under 18 years of age, helping
their families earn a livelihood and send the children to
school. The project hopes to reach 500 families over a three
year period.
2. (SBU) Ministry of Labor Child Labor Unit (CLU) head Nihaya
Dabdoub stressed to poloff that, while this is an ILO
project, under the Ministry's MOU with the ILO, the CLU and
the National Steering Committee on Child Labor will be
working in close cooperation with the ILO. The CLU aims to
take over the project financially and administratively at the
end of 2006, and its functions are already incorporated in
the draft National Strategy to Combat Child Labor, expected
to be implemented beginning this year.
3. (SBU) ILO Regional Director Taleb Rifai confirmed that the
Ministry of Labor approved the selection of project head
Mohammed Tarawneh in December. He also indicated that the
project has identified facilities it will begin using soon.
(Note: The project will share a building with the DOL-funded
ILO project on social dialogue. End note.) He stated that the
project has been on track for a few months; the timing of the
announcement was a function of his being in town and other
logistical issues. Rifai noted, however, the difficulties the
project had faced in obtaining a mutually agreeable project
leader.
4. (SBU) COMMENT: This is the second USDOL-funded project in
Jordan, the country where the ILO now has the most project
dollars at work within the region. It addresses a need that
the GOJ, ILO and the USG have mutually identified.
GNEHM