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.

 

The World Bank’s Child Labor Risk Screening Tool (World Bank)

This child labour risk screening tool is designed to systematically assess child labour risk in World Bank–financed projects during preparation. It consolidates evidence-based inputs to categorise risk levels, reducing subjectivity and supporting compliance with the Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework. Screening results inform additional analysis, stakeholder engagement, project design, and environmental/social safeguards. By quantifying risk, it helps the development of effective mitigation measures.

 

DIGICHILD Initiative, Leveraging georeferenced data to support child labour prevention in agrifood systems (FAO)

DIGICHILD is a child labour risk estimation index for agrifood systems based on georeferenced data. Piloted in Uganda and Honduras, it complements traditional monitoring systems by providing high-resolution (1 km²) risk estimates that are more cost-effective, time-efficient, and offer broader territorial coverage than direct observation. By doing so, DIGICHILD supports governments in adopting tailored and timely policies and programmes to eliminate child labour in agrifood systems and specific crop sourcing areas. It promotes anticipatory action rather than reactive remediation, strengthens companies’ child labour due diligence, and enhances safeguard systems within agricultural programmes and investments.

 

Gender Lab (ILO)

Interactive booth enabling participants to reflect on gender norms related to child labour and to share ideas and commitments through short interactions.