In March, the CLARISSA Bangladesh team organised a participatory training workshop for the children who would facilitate the life story…
Participatory Action Research
Bringing children into the life story collection process
At the beginning of March, the CLARISSA Nepal team worked with children to support the collection of their life stories….
Tired and Trapped: Life Stories from Cotton Millworkers in Tamil Nadu
Labour abuse in the garment industry has been widely reported. This qualitative research explores the lived experiences in communities with…
5 reflections on operationalising CLARISSA to generate evidence
As we start a new year, and especially, as 2021 is the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour,…
The pandemic pushes more children into the Worst Forms of Child Labour
I met Rafique*, while he was taking a small break and drinking tea at the roadside. I was collecting life…
Separating the emotional from the practical in writing up life stories
As part of the Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia Bangladesh team, it is my role to collect…
Live Twitter chat: Building a picture of worst forms of child labour: Life stories from the ground
On Universal Children’s Day, Danny Burns, Director, CLARRISA and Pragya Lasmal, Senior Participatory Action Researcher, CLARISSA join @IDS_UK in a Twitter Live…
Children’s Engagement with Exploitative Work in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Despite decades of interventions aiming to reduce child labour, children’s engagement with exploitative work remains widespread, particularly in South Asia….