Question & AnswerQ&A (DOLE DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 33-02)
The main purpose is to create a computerized databank on child laborers benefiting from NPACL services and interventions, to make invisible child laborers visible, identify their needs, and provide appropriate services and interventions.
The NPACL is a government program aimed at combating child labor through various interventions, including identification, rescue, removal, and provision of services to child laborers.
The Philippine government has ratified ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labor.
Child laborers are children who are rescued, removed, pulled out from child labor, or found to be engaged in child labor and given intervention or service to gradually remove them from such situations or prevented from being engaged in child labor.
Interventions or services include restitution, legal assistance, temporary shelter, educational assistance, job placement for older siblings, livelihood skills training for parents, and other direct services provided by DOLE and its partners.
A Chief Labor and Employment Officer (LEO) designated by the DOLE Regional Office is responsible for managing the master listing, assisted by at least one technical staff.
The DOLE Regional Offices must report the status every last working day of July each year.
Partner organizations must designate individuals to undertake master listing activities, record data on child laborers using the Master Listing Form, and submit forms on a per semester basis to the DOLE Regional Office.
The BWYW maintains the national databank and ensures that information derived from the databank is used strictly for official and NPACL program purposes only.