In this blog Stephen Collins, Consortium for Street Children’s Senior Legal and Advocacy Officer describes the contribution of the CLARISSA programme…
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Children’s participation and views should be at the heart of child-friendly local governance
Children are disproportionately vulnerable to harms and adverse living conditions such as abuse, harassment, exploitative labour, and environmental pollution. In…
Child labour, social protection and research: the need for a paradigm shift in Nepal
According to national resolutions and legislation, child labour is defined as children aged 5-13 years working for at least 1…
How to develop capacity in the international development sector
In her acclaimed study of effective cross-organizational teamwork, Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmonson concluded that “trying things that…
Why is child participation not yet fully embedded in responses to child labour?
Involving children in decisions that impact them is a good thing, right? After all, it should be ‘nothing about us,…
What do we gain by engaging with and listening to working children?
This year, to mark World Day Against Child Labour, two members of the Children Advocacy Group (CAG) in Bangladesh featured…
In Conversation: How can Nepal eliminate the worst forms of child labour?
In May 2022, the CLARISSA Nepal team organised a conversation between child labour experts, hosted by Nepal Live Today. The…
The push and pull of child labour in Nepal
As part of CLARISSA’s “The Small Business of Child Labour” campaign, which aims to shine a light on the worst…
Shifting the focus onto the ‘Small Business of Child Labour’
Progress towards the UN global goal to ‘eliminate child labour in all its forms by 2025’ will not be made…