About ECHO

Enabling Child and Human Rights with Seed Organizations (ECHO) is a multi-stakeholder forum established as a joint initiative of the seed industry and Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) registered as society under Telangana Societies Registration Act 2001 (Registration N0. 1581 of 2019) . The key objective is to identify issues and promote ethical seed production supply chain practices and enable decent workplace standards in the hybrid seed industry.

ECHO took shape through the cooperation of the Seed organizations, has evolved over a period of time. Initially, the forum was called the Child Labour Elimination Group (CLEG) that was formed in collaboration with the Association of Seed Industries (ASI) in 2003 and subsequently named Child Care Program (CCP). The forum took a more formalized structure as the Enabling Child and Human Rights with Seed Organizations (ECHO) in December 2019.

Today, ECHO promotes child rights and decent work with the support of social research organizations, seed industry members, and other voluntary organizations. ECHO members include public and private seed companies and representatives from voluntary and professional organizations.
RESEARCH . ADVOCACY . ACTION . ENGAGEMENT . COLLABORATION

Children should be in school, not on farms.