Peru

• Promote the signature of an inter-institutional collaboration agreement with the National Association of Municipalities of Peru (AMPE) and the National Assembly of Regional Governments to implement the Municipal Intervention Model against child labour at the national level 2020-2021.
• Strengthen the social dialogue and institutionality of the Regional Directing Committees for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labor (CDRPETI) during 2020.
• Implement and link the Child Labor Risk Identification Model – MIRTI to the MIDISTRITO platform of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion, for better decision-making in public policy in relation to the prevention and eradication of child labor at the level of local governments (2020).
• Promote supply chains free of child labor in sectors with high incidence and / or at greater risk of child labor (2019-2021).

• Carry out a pilot survey on the prevalence of forced labor in the Cusco region (2019 – 2020) and to roll out the survey nationally to ensure statistical information is available by 2025.
• Promote the process of submission of the 2014 Protocol on the ILO Forced Labor Convention.
• Implement the Third National Plan for the Fight against Forced Labor 2019–2022.
• Develop a project for the reintegration of victims of forced labor and/or human trafficking for the purposes of labor and sexual exploitation, during 2020-2021.

Success of Peru as a Pathfinder Country

• Launch of the Recognition “Seal Free of Child Labor” –SELTI, distinctive granted to legal persons (companies, associations, cooperatives) for the promotion of supply chains free of child labour in sectors with high incidence and / or risk of child labour
• Inter-institutional Cooperation Agreement between the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion and National Institute of Statistics and Information Technology, which aims at carrying out the collection and processing of information on the prevalence of forced labour in the Cusco region
• Ratification of Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930
• Approval of the Annual Operational Plan for the implementation of the III National Plan to Combat Forced Labour 2019 – 2022.

Strengthening the legal framework

• While Peru as pathfinder country has committed to a number of priorities to tackle child labour and forced labour, additional efforts have been directed towards strengthening the legal framework and national policies against human trafficking. For example:
  • Decentralization of public policies on trafficking
  • Implementation of the National Plan against Human Trafficking 2017-2021
  • Implementation of 23 regional plans against human trafficking in line with the National Plan on Human Trafficking
  • International agreements with Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Argentina
  • Approval of the Project of Labour Reintegration of Victims of Forced Labor and/or Human Trafficking for Labour and Sexual Exploitation by the Board of Directors of FONDOEMPLEO

Success in the area of Child Labour

Capacity building for the Regional Steering Committee for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labour (Comité Directivo Regional para la Prevencion y la Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil – CDRPETI) by updating CDRPETI’s situational diagnosis and providing technical assistance on the development and monitoring of work plans for the prevention and eradication of child labour.

The Municipal Model for the Detection and Eradication of Child Labour was designed, based on the experiences obtained by four (4) municipalities of the country, which have implemented, as pilot tests, a municipal management model that identifies and refers cases of child labour to competent entities for their comprehensive care.

Classification of the national territory according to the probability of occurrence of child labour, through the application of the Child Labour Risk Identification Model, which implies the initiation of prioritized, concrete actions in the districts with the highest probability of occurrence of child labour.

Success in the area of Forced Labor

Ratification of the “Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labor Convention, 1930”, through Supreme Decree No. 015-2021-RE, published in the Official Gazette El Peruano on April 21, 2021.

Success in the area of Child Labour

Capacity building for the Regional Steering Committee for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labour (Comité Directivo Regional para la Prevencion y la Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil – CDRPETI) by updating CDRPETI’s situational diagnosis and providing technical assistance on the development and monitoring of work plans for the prevention and eradication of child labour.

The Municipal Model for the Detection and Eradication of Child Labour was designed, based on the experiences obtained by four (4) municipalities of the country, which have implemented, as pilot tests, a municipal management model that identifies and refers cases of child labour to competent entities for their comprehensive care.

Classification of the national territory according to the probability of occurrence of child labour, through the application of the Child Labour Risk Identification Model, which implies the initiation of prioritized, concrete actions in the districts with the highest probability of occurrence of child labour.

Success in the area of Forced Labor

Ratification of the “Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labor Convention, 1930”, through Supreme Decree No. 015-2021-RE, published in the Official Gazette El Peruano on April 21, 2021.