Independent Monitoring Association
for Child Labor (IMAC) is a non-profit organization
that provides the workplace monitoring services, to
any industry/ industrial establishments, against child
labor as well as monitoring for other social and
working conditions. It has the capacity and
capabilities to provide consultancy services to any
industry/ industrial agglomerations to devise and
setup a workplace monitoring system, execute the
setting up of a monitoring system and training the
required manpower, awareness raising about the menace
of child labor and better working conditions and
develop and execute programmes for social protection
and rehabilitation of affected and afflicted groups of
society.
IMAC was established on 2002 to sustain the workplace
monitoring system against child labor setup by the
ILO-IPEC in the soccer ball industry in Sialkot,
Pakistan. In March 2003, it took over from the ILO-IPEC
the child labor monitoring system along with all the
technical know how, logistics and trained technical
staff to run the system. Since then, it not only ran the
system with the same transparency and credibility,
rather it brought in innovative changes in the system
that gave new dimensions to the monitoring work adding
credibility and efficiency to the workplace monitoring
functions.
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