A National Action Plan on the elimination of child labour (or NAP) is a national strategy, plan or programme aimed at addressing

child labour Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. Such exploitation is prohibited by legislation w ...

within a given country, usually with an emphasis on worst forms of child labour. Some countries also refer to this as an Action Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (APEC). The following countries have adopted, or plan to adopt, such a programme: *

Botswana Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...

: the ''National Action Programme towards the Elimination of Child Labour in Botswana'' was nationally endorsed in February 2008; *

Lesotho Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho and formerly known as Basutoland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Entirely surrounded by South Africa, it is the largest of only three sovereign enclave and exclave, enclaves in the world, t ...

; *

Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

: the ''Action Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour in Namibia'' was nationally endorsed in January 2008; *South Africa: the first '' Child Labour Programme of Action'' (CLPA) was adopted in 2003; and the phase two CLPA (or CLPA-2), for implementation from 2008 to 2012, in September 2007; *Swaziland:

Child Labour Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. Such exploitation is prohibited by legislation w ...

, the ''Strategy and Action Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour'' was nationally endorsed on 1 April 2008.{{Cite web , url=http://www.child-labour.org.za/newsroom/media-releases/swazi-plan , title=Swaziland commits to national action against child labour - 1 Apr 08 — TECL , access-date=2008-04-02 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708141335/http://www.child-labour.org.za/newsroom/media-releases/swazi-plan , archive-date=2008-07-08 , url-status=dead

References

Child labour Labour in Botswana Labour in Lesotho Labour in Namibia Labour in South Africa Labour in Eswatini Action plans