This session will take stock of progress made by the CLP and its members over the past year, with a particular focus on what collective action is achieving in practice.

Drawing on experiences from the CLP Country Working Groups, CLP members will highlight key results, milestones and lessons from collaboration with industry peers, governments and employers’ and workers’ organizations across different country and supply chain contexts.

Beyond showcasing achievements, the session will provide an opportunity to reflect on what these experiences are teaching us about effective collective action: Where is collaboration adding value? What approaches are showing promise? What challenges remain? These reflections will provide a practical starting point for the subsequent discussions on understanding impact and strengthening effective remedy.

Speakers: Isabelle Adam, corporate relations, Touton; Matthias Thorns, Vice President IOE, VP Global Labor Relations & Human Rights Samsung Electronics; Eric Kadima, Chair of the In-House Counsel Committee of the Federation of Enterprises of Congo (FEC); Richard Bigirwa, Secretary General NOTU (National Organization of Trade Unions) – Uganda; Moderator: Maria Fernandez, ITC ILO

Understanding impact is essential to not only demonstrate whether action on child labour is making a difference, but also to understand what works, under which conditions, and where resources can achieve the greatest and most sustainable results.

Stronger evidence can help companies improve their due diligence systems, demonstrate the value of investments in the social dimension of sustainability, and direct resources towards interventions that deliver meaningful impacts on people, including by addressing root causes such as poverty, informality, lack of social protection coverage, and access to quality education and vocational training.

This requires moving beyond activities and outputs to understand changes for children, workers and their communities, as well as broader systemic changes from reductions in child labour and related risks to improved access to education, decent work for adults, and stronger systems for preventing and addressing child labour in the long term.

Moderated by IOE, this interactive dialogue will explore two central questions: How can we better understand whether our actions are making a meaningful difference for children, workers and their families, as well as contributing to broader systemic change needed to end child labour in supply chains? And what does the evidence tell us about which interventions and forms of collaboration lead to more effective and lasting results? Participants will exchange practical experiences and emerging approaches to analyzing impact and using evidence to strengthen future action.

Speakers: Barbara Wettstein, Global Head Human Rights, Nestlé; Rumiana Yonova, Global Sustainability Compliance Manager, INTER IKEA; Suba Jayasekaran, Senior Advisor, The Shift Project; Moderator: Sophie DeConinck, Head of Operations, ILO FUNDAMENTALS

While significant attention has been devoted to identifying child labour risks and instances, ensuring effective remedy when child labour is identified remains one of the most complex challenges for businesses.

Immediate support to a child is essential, but effective remediation also requires addressing the circumstances that led to child labour and ensuring that positive outcomes can be sustained over time.

This discussion will consider the respective roles of businesses, governments and employers’ and workers’ organizations, and identify where collaboration can strengthen access to remedy and contribute to more sustainable outcomes. Through an interactive exchange, participants will explore practical lessons and opportunities for action that can help prevent children from returning to child labour and strengthen longer-term prevention.

This dialogue will explore what effective remedy looks like in practice and how we know when it has achieved lasting results. Drawing on concrete cases, participants will examine promising approaches as well as persistent challenges, including how remediation can respond to the needs of affected children and their families while addressing the underlying factors that put them at risk.

Speakers: Shelley McCluskey, Senior Manager – Labour Rights – Ethical Trading, Primark; Nadia Hoarau-Mwaura, Sustainability Director, JDE Peets; Moderator: Nicolas Torres Vieira, ITCILO