After periods of analysis on the strategies and effectiveness of the results achieved in the prevention and eradication of child labor, the Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labor Regional Initiative, in conjunction with the ILO and ECLAC, developed the Model of Child Labor Risk Identification (MIRTI) , a tool that allows, based on existing statistical information in the countries, to identify the territories most vulnerable to child labor, and to determine in which geographic areas and population groups efforts should be concentrated. Subsequently, the Vulnerability Index to Child Labor (IVTI) was developed, a complementary tool that synthesizes a set of variables, from administrative records, related to the risk of child labor.

The document that systematizes the experience analyzes in an integrated way the implementation of both models, MIRTI and IVTI, highlighting the diversity of political-institutional contexts and the characteristics of child labor in each country and in each territory. This has led to different routes being taken in the implementation process, and has provided a wide range of relevant experiences and learnings with strategies adaptable to other countries in the future.

In practice, each country has national files according to its administrative division. They include maps that identify low, medium and high risk levels of child labor by municipality and that show factors linked to the trajectory of hazardous child and adolescent labor.

Good practices identified

Among the good practices promoted by the models, the participation of broad sectors of the State stands out, the transfer of the methodology to key actors of the national statistical system, and the design of a technical guide on risk models in Spanish and English for use by technical teams. Another innovative and positive strategy was to involve local governments during the process of preparing the model to be implemented, taking into account their municipal plans for the prevention and eradication of child labor.

Appropriation and territorialization of target 8.7 of the SDGs

As part of the results of the implementation in nine countries, there is an installed capacity to convert the models into tools for periodic application, based on state measurement instruments. In addition, to date, three of the countries have institutionalized the tools, that is, they are formally incorporated into the policy strategies for the prevention and eradication of child labor: Argentina [1] and Colombia [2] included the MIRTI in their public policy for the prevention and eradication of child labor, as well as Costa Rica, which defines it as a priority action in the Decent Work Program 2019-2023 (Priority 1-Result 1.2) [3] .