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Implementation through a network: When faced with limited opportunities to work directly with government on legislation and policy issues, the project has been able to contribute significantly on these issues through its participation in a network of international agencies focused on addressing child labor.

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Capacity building process to incorporate child labor and child trafficking prevention in the Penauti Municipality Disaster Management Plan: The project followed an interactive process with officials in Penauti Municipality including a series of meetings, a gap analysis, a workshop with officials, and the Municipality Social Development Officer taking responsibility to incorporate the outcomes into the DMP. Key characteristics of this good practice: • The proposed support was in response to a clearly identified need; • Penauti Municipality had already taken some steps regarding child labor elimination and in preparing a previous DMP; • The interactive nature of the process built trust, confidence and understanding among the key staff in the municipality; and • Responsibility for action remained with the municipality throughout. _x000D_

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Using international good practices to inform local technical assistance strategies: When CLEAR II identified the need for attention to child protection strategies and processes to prevent trafficking and other negative outcomes for children in the midst of Nepal’s earthquake, LWOB effectively mobilized pro bono lawyers to identify good practices from other countries. This was both a good practice in how to mobilize volunteer resources to serve project implementation and in how to capitalize on good practices and lesson learned from past disasters and disaster responses.

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To improve project responsiveness and stakeholder engagement, it is important that country level results frameworks are contextualized: The lack of a country-specific results framework makes it harder to engage effectively with stakeholders who want to see what the project is planning to do and what the expected outcomes and results are.

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Country selection is a critical stage in project design that needs adequate time and resources: Due to political and bureaucratic factors, the process of identifying and agreeing on project target countries takes a considerable amount of time. In most countries, a scoping mission that includes face-to-face discussions with a variety of national stakeholders is needed prior to country selection and the development of a results framework. This is particularly true for grantees like the CLEAR II consortium that may be entering countries where the grantee has no permanent presence and limited or no prior relevant in-country experience.

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Existing USDOL and Grantee relationships in target countries are potential assets to facilitate entry into a new country: A member of the project management team suggested that USDOL might capitalize more on its existing grantee programs when choosing countries for government technical assistance and capacity building, She felt that there would be opportunities for complementary actions and that CLEAR II could build on existing relationships with USDOL and its grantees on the issue of child labor. Another stakeholder within Winrock suggested that allowing Winrock and its partners to capitalize more on its existing relationships by choosing countries where it has a track record would have facilitated timelier project expansion into new countries.

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The need to complete and approve a regulatory process before moving forward with related project activities created a domino effect and compromised the once-feasible goal of completing the ECMS rollout and follow-up processes within the project timeline.

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The absence of a built-in sustainability strategy for the WRCs decreased the likelihood that they would become self-sufficient and fomented a pattern of reliance on external funding to operate at current capacity.

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Implementing a large number of educational and livelihood activities during the relatively short implementation period made it more difficult to ensure proper follow-up for each intervention. Reducing the number of activities and/or speeding up the CMEP development and approval process could provide the additional time and resources needed to provide closer follow-up of project activities and participants. This, in turn, could strengthen project outcomes and sustainability._x000D_

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Young leaders forming Youth Banks had high expectations that the selected community development proposal would be funded. From the initiation of the project, it is important for project implementers to make clear if funding limitations exist and if the project cannot fund all selected proposals. At the same time, youth should receive additional technical assistance to strengthen funding proposals to pursue other funding sources, including municipal funds and private donors.