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On Monday, 30th<\/sup>\u00a0November, 2020, Department of Labor and Social Affairs\/DoLSA with cooperation of Help INGO and Organization for Sustainable Aid in Afghanistan \/OSAA organized the 14th<\/sup>\u00a0TVET and Employment Round-Table Meeting under the title of \u201c COVID-19 Impact on Child Labor and Forced Labor during the pandemic era with west region and beyond & Introducing Technical Committees and Priorities of DoLSA for next year\u201d in Women Empowerment and Social Association\/WESA Conference Room in Herat province.<\/p>\n

In this roundtable meeting, representatives from Govt. Dept. including Department of Labor and Social Affairs\/DoLSA, Dept. of Commerce and Industry, Afghan Women Chamber of Commerce and Industries (AWCCI), Craftsmen Union, Chamber of Industries and Mines, Experts Council as well as representatives from I\/NGO i.e. Help INGO, DACAAR, UNICEF, WISE, IRW, DRC, CRDSA, TOLO Dorakhshan Employment Service center, OSAA, and Women\u2019s Empowerment and Social Association \/WESA were attended.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the meeting, Mrs. Mehr Mahtab ahmadi from OSAA NGO who was facilitating the meeting, welcomed the participants to the 14th<\/sup>\u00a0TVET and Employment Roundtable Meeting.<\/p>\n

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The session officially began with recitation of Holy Quran, then Mr. Abdul Sattar Zarifi Head of Social Affairs Unit of DoLSA Welcomed the Participants and reviewed the 13th<\/sup>\u00a0TVET Roundtable discussions & explained the purpose of the 14th<\/sup>\u00a0TEVT Roundtable Meeting said: \u201cIt is very important to hold TVET and Employment Round-Tables with the presence of representatives from Govt. Dept. I\/NGOs and private sector with the title of COVID-19 Impact on Child Labor and Forced Labor during the pandemic era with west region and beyond, introducing Technical Committees and Priorities of DoLSA for next year\u201d. Also emphasized on the importance of NNGO and INGOs participation which are working on the field of TVET & Child protection to have synergized positive result of the sessions.<\/p>\n

In the following, Mr. Zobair Raouf, Herat DoLSA Labor Unit Head presented his presentation about the forced labour with focus on the child labour and forced labour and talked about forbidden work that children should not be involved on it, Works that are considered violation and works which practically and legally is forbidden. This session is relevant to the last roundtable which was about the result of the research by International Labor Organization on Covid 19 and the result of the research on children in Brick kilns by the help Org. and Comprehensive research on child labor by child protection Consortium based on that to find Solutions.<\/p>\n

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In the following each participant as representatives of their Organization talked about their activates during the COID-19 that how affected children and protected them from more Vulnerabilities also talked about their project which directly was on child protection. In the following the representatives of the Help, UNICEF, IRW, DACAAR, CRDSA, DRC, WISE and OSAA shared information about their activities that how affected child labor in the society.<\/p>\n

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According to the Agenda at the end of the Roundtable Mr. Abdul Sattar Zarifi Head of Social Affairs Unit of DoLSA in Herat Introduced Provincial Technical Committees also asked from the NNGO and INGOs representatives which voluntary wanted to be member of any of these three committee, the three technical committees are as following:<\/p>\n