16th Annual Meeting of the Child Labour Platform (CLP)
From Business Policies to Impact: Leveraging Knowledge and Action
to Prevent Child Labour and Promote Competitiveness in Supply Chains
Hyderabad, Telangana, India & Online
6–7 November 2025
Overview
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the International Labour Organization’s Child Labour Platform will convene in Hyderabad, India, with hybrid participation available.
This year’s theme, “From Business Policies to Impact”, reflects the growing urgency to translate commitments into concrete, measurable change. The meeting will showcase practical approaches to responsible recruitment, adequate wages, and human rights due diligence, and will highlight the ILO’s area-based strategies and tools for sustainable impact.
Participants will engage in high-level discussions, peer-to-peer learning, and country-specific working group sessions, with a focus on strengthening partnerships and promoting competitiveness through business conduct.
Objectives
- Share promising practices and lessons learned from CLP’s initiatives and partner efforts.
- Explore concrete business actions to address the root causes of child labour and advance due diligence in CLP members’ supply chain.
- Strengthen multi-stakeholder collaboration across sectors and geographies.
- Deepen understanding of how decent work elements—such as fair recruitment and adequate wages—can be integrated into supply chain strategies.
Tentative Agenda
Day 1 – Thursday, 6 November 2025
IST (INDIA) |
CET (GENEVA) |
SESSION |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 – 11:45 | 06:30 – 07:15 | Registration and welcome tea |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | 07:30 – 08:30 | Opening |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | 08:30 – 10:00 | Networking lunch |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | 11:00 – 12:00 | Roundtable 1: Tackling the root causes of child labour and advancing decent work for adults through adequate wages |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | 12:00 – 13:00 | Roundtable 2: Integrating fair recruitment in businesses’ strategies to prevent child labour in supply chains |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | 13:00 – 13:15 | Tea break |
| 16:45 – 17:30 | 13:15 – 14:00 | Strategically leveraging partnership with CLP members to amplify impact at the country level |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | 14:00 – 15:30 | Optional offsite dinner |
Day 2 – Friday, 7 November 2025
IST (INDIA) |
CET (GENEVA) |
SESSION |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 – 10:00 | 05:00 – 05:30 | Welcome tea |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | 05:30 – 07:00 | Roundtable 3: Building effective child labour due diligence systems with suppliers |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | 07:00 – 08:30 | Workshop |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | 08:30 – 09:00 | Next steps and closing remarks |
Please note: Agenda is subject to change. Final programme and speaker list will be confirmed closer to the event.
Registration
To register for in-person or online participation, please click here.
We look forward to your participation.