Beneficiary Targeting. The project has taken an area-based approach to target children engaged in or at high risk of child labor in the three focus sectors - agriculture, fishing and domestic work - and to reach children in other forms of child labor.12 The intake process was conducted together with 11 It should be noted that there is a discrepancy between the figures reported by field staff and the April 2015 TPR (Annexes A and C) which reports 672 recipients of vocational training out of a cumulative target of 1,029; and 125 of a cumulative target of 325 for youth livelihoods support. The lower figures in the CMEP annexes may be due to the lag in data entry and validation and the Project Director indicated that that the numbers reported by field staff are the correct ones. The evaluator suggests that this discrepancy should be checked by the project and the data in the CMEP reports updated in the next TPR. 12 This means that children identified as working in other sectors in the implementation villages can also be included among the beneficiaries. local/commune authorities and villages through a process of identifying households with children at risk of or engaged in child labor. The selection of the localities at province, district and commune level has assured that the children in child labor or at risk of child labor in the three main sectors are covered and comprise the majority of beneficiaries. With regard to child domestic work (CDW), VCAO has reached those whose employers agree that they can attend vocational training or formal education. They have also succeeded in withdrawing some young women from exploitative work. However, they have found it very challenging to reach children who commonly work far from their communities and are not allowed from their employers’ homes. This group of child domestic workers is apparently not included among the project beneficiaries and as such their needs are not being met, apart from advocacy activities conducted by VCAO. As noted in the foregoing section, the project targets a balance of 65% engaged in child labor and 35% at high risk of child labor. The definition of child labor was developed based on international standards, Cambodian law and USDOL guidelines and was adapted for Cambodia during the development of the CMEP. At the operational level, the enumerators, commune leaders and community volunteers responsible for identifying beneficiaries were provided guidelines based on the ILO Cambodia’s definitions of “at risk” and “en...
