This paper presents the results of the multi-method evaluation of the CLARISSA Cash Plus pilot, which was an innovative social…
Neil Howard
Clarissa Cash Plus: Innovative Social Protection in Bangladesh
Social protection, and cash transfers especially, have been found to have many positive impacts on families’ lives and are now…
Social Protection Intervention: Evaluation Research Design
This paper describes the research design for investigating and evaluating the Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA)…
How can we tackle the causes, not the symptoms of harmful child labour?
To make progress towards reducing the worst forms of child labour by 2025, efforts need to focus on where those…
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….
A ‘Cash Plus’ intervention for children in exploitative work
Social protection policies have been lauded for their many positive effects on children’s lives. Cash transfer programmes, in particular, have…
Towards Ethical Good Practice in Cash Transfer Trials and their Evaluation
Although cash transfers are now widely used within development and social policy, there is still limited discussion over how (and…
What’s wrong with the World Day Against Child Labour?
Working children everywhere reject the mainstream anti-child labour paradigm. A major new video campaign tells us why. Neil Howard writes…