The director said that the establishment of a National Child Labour Elimination Policy was a step forward towards the whole exercise of combating child labour as it would be a focal point whereby all possible areas would be set clearly. According to him, education is a key solution to child labour, noting that along with other measures which aimed at combating child labour, the question of social development, education policy, should be put into national agenda when looking into ways to solve child labour problem. In Tanzania child labour is caused by the combination of factors. It is the product of underdevelopment and poverty and experts feel that one of the challenges facing Tanzania in solving child labour is eliminating poverty. In Tanzania child labour, is becoming be one of the feasible alternatives in extended families.
Child labour is predominant in tea, tobacco plantations as well as in mining areas.
The newly introduced law is expected to be instrumental in doing away with the growing trend of child labour in Nepal. But those working in the field of child labour and human rights feel that the new Act may not be sufficient to address the problem. The Act is based on the ILO Convention on the Elimination of the Worst Form of Child labour unanimously adopted last June. Pradhan says that the new Act will be able to eliminate only 10 per cent of the total child labour in the country as it has provisions just to interfere in the formal and organised sector leaving the unorganised sector largely untouched. More than 90 per cent under-aged labourers are found in the unorganised and informal sector.