The report concludes that child labor and hazardous child labor must be understood as a complex problem that requires a holistic approach with complementary solutions – consisting of interventions targeting livelihoods, education, awareness, legislation, and community monitoring, specially focusing on medium and low production areas. Furthermore, all stakeholders such as governments, industry stakeholders and civil society must work together to combat child labor. Interventions that have been successful need to be implemented at a large scale.
The need for joining forces is one of the main learnings from the Harkin-Engel Protocol. Even though the Protocol is coming to an end with targets being failed, it serves as a model for continued engagement by all stakeholders.