Initially, the CLARISSA programme used the River of Life (RoL) method in two evaluation analysis workshops which were facilitated by…
Marina Apgar
Using a ‘Partnership Rubric’ in Participatory Evaluations
Programmes that aim to tackle complex societal issues, such as the worst forms of child labour, require rich partnerships that…
Learning from Life Story Collection and Analysis With Children Who Work in the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Nepal
The CLARISSA Nepal team collected and analysed 400 life stories of children and young people engaged in or affected by…
Designing contribution analysis of participatory programming to tackle the worst forms of child labour
This Research and Evidence Paper presents the theory-based and participatory evaluation design of the Child Labour: Action-Research- Innovation in South…
Learning from life story collection and analysis with children who work in the leather sector in Bangladesh
In 2021 in Bangladesh, we collected 405 life stories from children living in Hazaribagh, Hemayetpur, Lalbagh, and Bhairab in Dhaka,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…