Project Name:
- BETTER BRICK NEPAL (BBN) PROJECT
Working Areas:
- Dhunibesi Municipality, Thakre Rural Municipality, Gajuri Rural Municipality
Project duration
- 2014 November 2020 – 2021 November 2021
Targeted beneficiaries
- 5 brick industry, workers and their children
Project’s Objectives
- The objective of the BBN program is to to eliminate child, forced, and bonded labor on brick kilns in Nepal by implementing an incentive-based system that creates improvements in labor and enterprise practices linked with a market demand for certified “Better Bricks".
Project’s Activities
1. Municipal level engagement and Social Audit meetings
2. Media Mobilization
3. Kiln Level Activities/Training
4. Orientation to Compliance Officer
5. Form and Orient Grievance Committee
6. Training-Workers and Naikes
7. Painting/Printing
8. Surrounding Community engagement
9. Education Support for Kilns Children
Project’s Achievements
1. 42 children working in three brick factories with their families and relatives from outside the district have been given continuity in school through the help of educational materials.
2. Assisted 563 workers in the brick industry to become labor friendly industries after being informed about the minimum standards to be followed by the industry and the workers.
3. Assistance to 412 workers working in 4 brick factories for their livelihood through the return of resource district after the end of the season.
4. All the four brick industries have succeeded in becoming child labor free brick industries by fulfilling the minimum standards to be followed while operating the industry.
5. Problems related to workers in the industry have been discussed and resolved during the season.
Project’s Challenges
1. Due to the regular flow of workers in the brick industry, the seed capital distributed for the economic empowerment of the workers could not be provided to all at once.
2. In all the industries in the district where the BBN program is not implemented, those brick industries have seen promoting children to do work.
3. As children are working as child laborers in the non-BBN brick industry, nobody has been able to reduce child labor.
4. Due to Covid epidemic across the country, the government has not been able to carry out the planned regular activities.
5. Due to the regular flow of workers in the brick industry, the seed capital distributed for the economic empowerment of the workers could not be provided to all the workers.
Project’s Learnings
1. Emphasis should be placed on the implementation side by legally reforming the brick industry to transform it into an industry and ensure the rights of the workers.
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