Defining the Effect of Child Labour Training Module on NGO's Attitudes Towards Child Rights

INTRODUCTION: Child labour is an interdisciplinary issue including the child rights dimension. Child rights training for non-governmental organizations in the means of forfeiture and keeping the rights of children gives crucial responsibility to NGO leaders. The research is done to assess the change of child rights knowledge level of NGO leaders via training. METHODS: The research is experimental and it is accomplished in 4 pilot cities (Adana, Mersin, Ordu, Manisa) in four months between March and June 2018 and 123 persons took part in it. The study is supported by a UNICEF project cooperation with The Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen (CTTC) and Hatay Mustafa Kemal University (HMKU). In the frame of the research, the leaders are given a four hours of training on child rights and child labour. Child labour survey form and child rights attitude scale is applied to the leaders before and after the training. The permission for the research is got from HMKU Ethics Committee. Gathered data is analyzed by SPSS 22, examined by Kolmogorov-Smirnow test in the means of distribution and then inter-groups Mann-Whitney U test / Kruskal Wallis test is used. Wilcoxon test is used before and after the training and p>0.05 is accepted as meaningful. RESULTS: As a result of the research findings, child rights scale points average of NGO leaders are 97.52+-10.95 before training for preliminary test; and 99.02+-10.71 after training for posttest. Acquired values gathered before and after child rights training are statistically meaningful (p=0.01). The effect of training compared to the gender of leaders (M/F), working position (President/Worker), working experience (0-11 years), age variables is not statistically meaningful (p>0.05). On the other hand, education level of leaders is statistically meaningful depending on the cities that the research accomplished. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Child rights knowledge level could be increased via the training of NGO leaders. The trainings should be increased considering the regional results depending on the pilot studies.