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13 August 2024
The Drivers and Dynamics of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Kathmandu’s Adult Entertainment Sector: A Synthesis of Five Years of Research by Children, Business Owners, NGOs, and Academics
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper synthesises what the CLARISSA programme learned about the worst forms of child labour in Kathmandu’s adult entertainment sector. It looks at children’s pathways into child labour, their lived experience of it, and the businesses in which they work.
24 July 2024
Evaluating CLARISSA: Evidence, Learning, and Practice
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This research and evidence paper presents a synthesis of the findings from the embedded theory-based evaluation of the CLARISSA programme.
9 July 2024
Opening the Black Box of Participatory Action Research in Response to the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Nepal and Bangladesh
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
How, for whom, and under what conditions does Participatory Action Research (PAR) generate innovation to tackle the drivers of the worst forms of child labour (WFCL)? This paper presents the findings of a realist evaluation that investigated how PAR groups facilitated children who work in exploitative and harmful labour and business owners in the leather industry in Bangladesh and the adult entertainment sector in Nepal to generate innovative actions. These PAR groups were facilitated over a period of 18 months to two years by non-governmental organisation professionals trained in PAR approaches.
24 June 2024
CLARISSA Cash Plus Social Protection Intervention: An Evaluation
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper presents the results of the multi-method evaluation of the CLARISSA Cash Plus pilot, which was an innovative social protection scheme for tackling social ills, including the worst forms of child labour.
11 June 2024
A Day in the Life of a Working Child in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Synthesis of 25 Stories about Children’s Days
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This synthesis paper summarises patterns in the lived experience of 25 children in Hazaribagh, Dhaka who went about a typical day in their lives. Combining use of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, a survey children completed via a mobile phone app, and ethnographic observations, children and adult researchers recorded locations, times of day, activities, and feelings. The paper brings into view the challenges that children in worst forms of child labour navigate before, after, and between work.
31 May 2024
Bridging Learning and Action: How Did CLARISSA’s Participatory Adaptive Management Approach Foster Innovation, Effectiveness, and Stakeholder Empowerment?
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper shares insights emerging from evaluating CLARISSA’s participatory adaptive management (PAM) practices, connecting them with current discussions on adaptive management. It provides an in-depth evaluation of CLARISSA’s PAM approach, exploring how adaptive strategies were implemented and evolved throughout the programme’s life cycle.
28 May 2024
Qualitative Analysis of 400 Life Stories from Children and Young People Working in the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Nepal
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This research paper explores the findings from semi-structured interviews with business owners operating enterprises involved in leather processing and production across three prominent neighbourhoods and business districts in and around Dhaka, Bangladesh.
28 April 2022
The Impacts of Covid-19 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Myanmar
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In Myanmar, almost one in ten children are engaged in child labour and more than half of the working children are doing hazardous work....
10 November 2021
Child Labour Programme launches ‘The Small Business of Child Labour’ campaign
Progress towards the UN global goal to ‘eliminate child labour in all its forms by 2025’ will not be made in countries with a...