The presentation will update CORESTA members on ECLT activities and more specifically upon the strategic refocusing of the Foundation as a catalyst for policy change in the countries within which we currently operate. ECLT objectives are to contribute to the elimination of child labour within tobacco and agriculture more generally. The presentation contextualizes push factors and risks, including the impacts of HIV/Aids, poverty and illiteracy, currently contributing to significant increases in the vulnerability of communities actively involved in tobacco production and supply and outlines the responses required by key actors including the tobacco industry. Essentially ECLT having established evidence of best practice, through our country based programming which espouses a livelihoods approach to issues relating to child labour, is now seeking to take what have been previously regarded as 'private' supply chain issues into the public domain as issues of national and international importance around which donors and the wider international community should be encouraged and required to act. The presentation seeks to outline current realities, strategies and suggestions for a holistic approach and sustainable response to the issue of child labour.