Queen Rania attends discussion on child labour

Her Majesty Queen Rania on Tuesday attended a discussion at the launch of the National Framework for Child Labour in Jordan. The discussion, which took place at the King Hussein Club in Amman, included presentations by Reem Abu Hassan, secretary general of the National Council for Family Affairs (NCFA), on child labour in Jordan, and Waleed Tarawneh, country director of the Cooperative Housing Foundation on the Child Labour Programme, its goals, results and future plans. Representatives from the ministries of education, labour and social development also attended the discussion as well as members of community-based and civil society organisations and children who have benefited from the programme and have been reintegrated in schools. The representatives from the ministries of education, social development and labour spoke about the roles of their respective ministries in combating child labour. NCFA Deputy Director Mohammad Miqdady presented a briefing on the role of the committee that drafted the framework. The National Committee on Child Labour has created a national framework to alleviate child labour, drafted in coordination with local counterparts and the Ministry of Labour is working on establishing this framework as a national strategy. The framework aims at highlighting the roles and responsibilities of each of the constituents, who are service providers, deliverers or even beneficiaries. It provides clear dividing lines and descriptions of roles to be played and holds those involved responsible and accountable to those roles. The framework also identifies methods in which these organisations should deal with children who have been or are labourers and ways in which they should be reintegrated in the schooling system.