Doing development differently rests on deliberate efforts to reflect and learn, not just about what programmes are doing and achieving,…
Voice of Children
VOC is an NGO working and advocating for street and sexually abused children of Nepal. It aims to prevent further increase in the number of street children by working to empower and spread awareness among vulnerable families living in urban, low-rent and slum areas. In partnership with ChildHope, VOC is the CLARISSA host organisation in Nepal, where a team will be exploring the hidden social norms that allow the worst forms of child labour to persist and delivering participatory processes and innovations to generate options for children to avoid hazardous and exploitative labour.
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…
Child labour is rife in adult entertainment businesses in Nepal
As CLARISSA launches its campaign ‘Shift the Focus: The Small Business of Child Labour’ we are asking why this matters…
Anita’s Life Story
My name is Anita* and I am from Eastern Nepal. I am 18 years old. We are a family of…
Rita’s Life Story
My name is Rita* and I live with my father, mother, and brother. My sister is married. My mother drinks…
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…
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….
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…
COVID-19 closed the Adult Entertainment Sector, and now it must open
The global pandemic has affected communities around the globe causing severe threat to human life and Nepal is no exception….