Intro -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Rationale for employers' organizations : Why get involved in child labour? -- What this guide provides -- Intended users -- How to use this guide -- Three 'Options for Action' -- An integrated set of guides -- Surveying the landscape(Situation analysis) -- 1. Labour market landscape -- 2. Legal landscape -- 3. Organizational landscape -- 4. Consumer and buyer landscape -- Learning by doing -- Choosing an objective andmapping a strategy -- The process -- Custom designing your strategy -- Four scenarios -- Options for Action -- Option 1: Providing informationand offering advice -- 1. Preliminary: Establishing a Focal Point -- 2. Providing information -- a. Information on laws -- b. Information related to international buyers -- c. Information on certification -- 3. Offering advice -- a. Basic advice from the EO focal point -- b. Sharing good practice: enterprise-to-enterprise -- c. Managing disagreement among members -- d. Help with choosing partners -- A note on publicity and confidentiality -- Option 2: Lobbying, facilitating dialogueand raising awareness -- Tripartism -- Multi-stakeholder and 'bilateral' engagement -- Role 1: Engaging with government(s) -- Role 2: Working with workers' organizations -- Role 3: Cooperating with NGOs -- Role 4: Raising awareness -- Dialogue, consensus and action -- A note on alliances with NGOs -- Key issue: Choose a good partner -- Supporting issues -- Put it in writing -- Option 3: Delivering programmes -- 1. Taking the initiative -- 2. Joining an initiative -- 3. Supporting the initiative of a constituent association -- 4. Evolving a programme over time -- 5. Funding and staff time.
Guide Three is about the collective role that employers' organizations and other business associations can play in helping their members on this important topic.
