This document briefly presents and analyzes the migratory phenomenon of children and adolescents from the Northern Triangle of Central America and its link to child labor. It reports on the factors that drive this migration, some indicators of vulnerability and risks for this population and mentions some institutional responses to influence the prevention of child labor in this area.

This document includes what was developed in the "Forum  of experts on child labor and migrant children in Central America and Mexico", convened by the ILO between July  27 and 29 , 2016. The event was  attended by Ministries of Labor, Organizations of Employers and Workers, together with other State actors, various agencies of the United Nations (UN), Non-Governmental Organizations and experts on the subject, with the aim of highlighting and analyzing the link between child labor, its worst forms and the migratory flows of children and adolescents in the Northern Triangle and the Southern Triangle of Central America. 

This publication, the product of the Third World Conference on Child Labor (Brazil, 2013), offers a compilation of good practices in matters of Education and training, national legislation and its application, social protection, policies for the labor market, public policies and peoples natives.

Document in which the dimensions of effectiveness and impact, results achieved, efficiency, sustainability and replicability of 15 evaluation reports of programs and / or projects (subregional and national) oriented to the prevention and eradication of child labor, implemented in 15 countries in the region between 2005 and 2015, and 15 reports evaluating the impact of public programs from 11 countries in the region, with objectives related to combating poverty, increasing and improving school enrollment and retention, aspects valued to determine their effects on the prevention and elimination of child labor.

The purpose of this study is to estimate the costs and benefits of investing in the eradication of child labor in the Latin American and Caribbean region for the next decade (2015-2025). The costs are valued based on a strategy to increase school coverage, accompanied by conditional cash transfers and direct intervention to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Likewise, this methodology values ​​the economic advantages of a more educated and healthy population. 

In October 2014, during the 18th American Regional Meeting of the ILO, the Ministers of Labor from 24 countries signed the Charter of the Regional Initiative. Subsequently, the document has been signed by Haiti, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda and St. Kitts & Nevis, adding to date 30 member countries.

This document provides a compilation of good practices for the prevention of child labor in supply chains. The collected experiences have been carried out in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Mexico.

Informative material that narrates the situation of child labor in the region and the proposal of the Regional Initiative to achieve the first generation free of child labor in 2025.

Informative material that explains what child labor consists of, who it affects, what it generates and the actions that the ILO has taken, from the IPEC program, to respond to this reality.

In July 2015, the Regional Initiative convened the First Roundtable on South-South Cooperation to accelerate the reduction of child labor. 22 of the member countries attended the meeting and 82 agreements were reached: 60 expressions of interest; 17 definitions of commitment and 5 announcements of agreement related to acceleration factors (indigenous communities, education, agriculture, value chain, migration, youth employment, decentralization and new information technologies).