Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) is a recently completed evidence and innovation-generation programme, responding to the…
Grambangla Unnayan Committee
GUC is a non-profit organisation working with the most socially excluded, marginalised, stigmatised and disadvantaged communities in Bangladesh. GUC works with such communities to highlight and advocate for their human rights, which are so often overlooked or ignored. In partnership with ChildHope, GUC, as part of the CLARISSA Bangladesh country team, will deliver participatory processes and innovations. They will have a focus on revealing and reducing harm to children working within the leather sector and its supply chain in Bangladesh, supporting positive family dynamics and promoting and building child-led coalitions.
The ‘Small Business of Child Labour’ campaign launched
Progress towards the UN global goal to ‘eliminate child labour in all its forms by 2025’ will not be made…
Shuvashish’s Life Story
Shuvashish* is 17 years old and lives with his parents. “My brother doesn’t live with us. He got married and…
Mapping of Children Engaged in the Worst Forms of Child Labour in the Supply Chain of the Leather Industry in Bangladesh
This mapping of children in the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) in the leather sector of Bangladesh was conducted…
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…
How can we tackle child labour by 2025?
On the World Day Against Child Labour, there is a call to action to end child labour by 2025, in…
Ensuring ethics in life story collection during COVID times
As the first step in CLARISSA’s systemic action research, we collected life stories from children during the pandemic. The life…