The Innovation Fair aims to showcase creative, impactful, and scalable solutions that contribute to the elimination of child labour, foster peer learning, and inspire replication and partnerships. It will highlight innovative, creative and evidence-based approaches that have shown measurable impact in addressing child labour and that have the potential to be scaled and adapted to different contexts.  

Designed as a space for direct and active engagement, the Innovation Fair will also offer hands-on experiences with artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Participants will be able to interact with an AI-powered avatar answering questions on the Global Estimates on Child Labour and a virtual reality visit to a cocoa farm in Nigeria, to deepen understanding of the realities of child labour on the ground and inspire action.

 

Towards Eliminating Child Labour, Exploitation and Trafficking through Digital Innovation (IOM)

Child labour, exploitation of children and child trafficking are pervasive phenomena affecting children in all parts of the work. Technology is increasing being used to perpetrate these crimes. We must turn the tides towards leveraging the great potential of technological innovation to ensure children can benefit from opportunities that are safe and help them to thrive. IOM will showcase its work in this area, such as: the WakaWell online hub, a Pan-African initiative bringing together young innovators towards guiding their peers to make safe and informed choices about safe migration; partnering with tech sector to bring innovative approaches to leveraging trafficking in persons data for a targeted response, such as exploring the link between trafficking, migration and child labour.

 

Innovations in the actions of Brazilian labor inspectors in the fight against child labor (Brazil)

This initiative aims to share the experience of the Project for the Improvement and Strengthening of the Brazilian Labour Inspection in combating child labour, presenting its origins, methodology, and results. Embedded in the international normative framework of the ILO—particularly Fundamental Conventions Nos. 138 and 182, Recommendations Nos. 146 and 190, as well as Conventions Nos. 81 and 129 on labour inspection—this experience highlights the central role of an effective, well-structured, and technically qualified labour inspection system in the prevention and elimination of child labour. The project has led to a structural transformation of enforcement practices in Brazil, introducing innovative approaches based on proactive action and data analysis, the expanded use of information technologies—particularly the IPÊ system for reporting and processing complaints—the development of operational protocols tailored to different forms of child labour, including in the informal economy, specialized training for labour inspectors, and the deployment of dedicated mobile inspection units. These advances have increased the effectiveness, precision, and impact of inspection actions, consolidating labour inspection as one of the pillars of the national policy for the prevention and eradication of child labour.