New Path New Steps

The New Path New Steps Project aims to address key gaps in existing child labor programming in Nepal, including weak country capacity to address child labor with a focus on monitoring, enforcement, and central level coordination.

The project works with the education sector to operationalize policies that will keep more children in school longer and out of child labor; builds on earlier successful initiatives to integrate vocational education into schools to make education more relevant to reality so that children are less prone to enter exploitive labor; implements new efforts to reach and remove children from the commercial sexual exploitation of children industry; focuses increased attention on working with community based institutions to develop advocacy programs that promote better understanding and awareness of education, child labor and child welfare; and will carry out small-scale research studies on specific program issues while at the same time strengthening larger information systems that provide more reliable information and data for use in planning.The New Path New Steps Project aims to address key gaps in existing child labor programming in Nepal, including weak country capacity to address child labor with a focus on monitoring, enforcement, and central level coordination.

The project works with the education sector to operationalize policies that will keep more children in school longer and out of child labor; builds on earlier successful initiatives to integrate vocational education into schools to make education more relevant to reality so that children are less prone to enter exploitive labor; implements new efforts to reach and remove children from the commercial sexual exploitation of children industry; focuses increased attention on working with community based institutions to develop advocacy programs that promote better understanding and awareness of education, child labor and child welfare; and will carry out small-scale research studies on specific program issues while at the same time strengthening larger information systems that provide more reliable information and data for use in planning.