This year, to mark World Day Against Child Labour, two members of the Children Advocacy Group (CAG) in Bangladesh featured…
Participatory Action Research
Capacity Development in a Participatory Adaptive Programme: the Case of the Clarissa Consortium
Doing development differently rests on deliberate efforts to reflect and learn, not just about what programmes are doing and achieving,…
How Does Participatory Action Research Generate Innovation? Findings from a Rapid Realist Review
This Emerging Evidence Report shares evidence of how, for whom, and under what circumstances, Participatory Action Research (PAR) leads to…
Building rapport for action research with the community in Bangladesh
When the CLARISSA team first started working in the community in 2020, COVID-19 was already prevalent in Bangladesh – many…
Understanding the worst forms of child labour in Bangladesh’s leather sector
The leather sector is one of the most profitable sectors in Bangladesh and is a major contributor to the country’s…
Finally telling their stories
Every child who works as a child labourer in Bangladesh’s leather industry has a story to tell. A story of…
Designing a Participatory Programme at Scale: Phases 1 and 2 of the CLARISSA Programme on Worst Forms of Child Labour
CLARISSA (Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia) is a large-scale Participatory Action Research programme which aims to identify,…
Bonded: Life Stories from Agricultural Communities in South-Eastern Nepal
In the Terai region of South-Eastern Nepal, there persists a form of agricultural bonded labour called Harwa-Charwa, rooted in agricultural…
A single story does not tell us what we need to know about child labour
We know that it can be tempting to tell a single story to persuade and influence action and change. But…
Safeguarding the mental health of children in child labour in Nepal
According to the ILO, 79 million children are in “hazardous work in the world (pdf)”, which poses an immediate danger…