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Nepal gallery walk: Children in child labour inspiring change with creativity
Creativity, teambuilding and cooperative learning provide children with greater leverage in combating the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) that mostly…
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…
Listening to children: 2022’s inquiry into exploitative child labour
In this blog Stephen Collins, Consortium for Street Children’s Senior Legal and Advocacy Officer describes the contribution of the CLARISSA programme…
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…
Children’s participation and views should be at the heart of child-friendly local governance
Children are disproportionately vulnerable to harms and adverse living conditions such as abuse, harassment, exploitative labour, and environmental pollution. In…
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…
How to develop capacity in the international development sector
In her acclaimed study of effective cross-organizational teamwork, Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmonson concluded that “trying things that…
Why is child participation not yet fully embedded in responses to child labour?
Involving children in decisions that impact them is a good thing, right? After all, it should be ‘nothing about us,…
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,…