Doing development differently rests on deliberate efforts to reflect and learn, not just about what programmes are doing and achieving,…
Marina Apgar
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…
Reflections on if and how our partnership is working in Bangladesh
Effective partnership working is crucial to producing quality results, especially when working with complex problems such as the worst forms…
Our best-evidenced guess of how we will achieve change
There is weak evidence of what leads children into the most exploitative and dangerous forms of labour. What we do…
Evaluating CLARISSA: Innovation Driven by a Participatory Learning Agenda
Children end up in child labour as a result of many, often unknown or hidden, interactions between multiple actors and…