This research paper explores the findings from semi-structured interviews conducted with business owners operating spa and massage parlours, khaja ghars…
Research and Evidence Series
Read about CLARISSA’s thematic and participatory research findings as well as our work in progress. The publications here comprise detailed evidence from the CLARISSA programme to help shape policies, interventions and programmes as well as our summarised findings, contextual knowledge and framing and some synthesis of relevant literature and secondary data sources.
Life Stories From Children Working in Bangladesh’s Leather Sector and its Neighbourhoods: Told and Analysed by Children
CLARISSA (Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia) has a participatory and child-centred approach that supports children to gather…
Life Stories From Kathmandu’s Adult Entertainment Sector: Told and Analysed by Children and Young People
Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) has a participatory and child-centred approach that supports children to gather…
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)…
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…
Mapping of Slums and Identifying Children Engaged in Worst Forms of Child Labour Living in Slums and Working in Neighbourhood Areas
The National Child Labour Survey 2013 estimated that Bangladesh is home to 3.45 million working children, including 1.28 million engaged…
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,…
Urban Neighbourhood Dynamics and the Worst Forms of Child Labour
While the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) is not only an urban phenomenon, evidence suggests that WFCL emerges in…
Supply Chains, the Informal Economy, and the Worst Forms of Child Labour
As a cohort of people, ‘children in work’ have become critical to the everyday functioning of diverse supply chain systems….
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…