Compliance with these conventions is required to retain GSP+ status. Complementarity between GSP+ and the recommendations of the ESSA was emphasized. Ensuring compliance with conventions can be used as an incentive to increase exports. Participants stated that it is the constitutional right of every child in Pakistan to get education, but due to unavailability of schools and poverty parents do not want to send children to schools because they want their children to earn. It was suggested that if the government enforces the minimum wage, there are possibilities that child labor will reduce. Discrepancies between conventions and national child labor laws are small and were also discussed and identified. In the end, the participants were supportive of proposals presented by the program. They showed confidence that if the program is implemented as designed and stakeholders are kept in the loop, then the program will make substantial contributions in the implementation of the growth strategy of Punjab. The ESSA has reflected concerns raised by incorporating suggestions both within the text of the ESSA itself as well as in the more substantive recommendations and proposed actions. Detailed feedback from the consultation workshop is attached as annex 2 along with the list of participants.
Compliance with these conventions is required to retain GSP+ status. Complementarity between GSP+ and the recommendations of the ESSA was emphasized. Ensuring compliance with conventions can be used as an incentive to increase exports. Participants stated that it is the constitutional right of every child in Pakistan to get education, but due to unavailability of schools and poverty parents do not want to send children to schools because they want their children to earn. It was suggested that if the government enforces the minimum wage, there are possibilities that child labor will reduce. Discrepancies between conventions and national child labor laws are small and were also discussed and identified. In the end, the participants were supportive of proposals presented by the program. They showed confidence that if the program is implemented as designed and stakeholders are kept in the loop, then the program will make substantial contributions in the implementation of the growth strategy of Punjab. The ESSA has reflected concerns raised by incorporating suggestions both within the text of the ESSA itself as well as in the more substantive recommendations and proposed actions. Detailed feedback from the consultation workshop is attached as annex 2 along with the list of participants.