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Learning Description

It is important to monitor children’s work on weekends and school holidays, to ensure that they are not relapsing into exploitative work, long working hours, or work that affects their access to education. In the evening when they come home from school, parents may ask them to help in housework or farm work, especially in rural areas. It is important to sensitize parents on the importance of doing homework after completing the school day in the classroom.

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Relying on free services or complementary funds/projects, financed by different donors, can result in difficult situations with regard to financing and coordination. If the need for services is not identified early, some organizations cannot provide these services because there is no budget allocated for such purpose; they must wait until the following year to integrate the need in their budget.

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Research activities can often take longer than originally planned. To date, no agreement with the University has been reached. The academic year is like the school year and there are periods when it is not in session. The project plans to tailor the scope of research to the project’s remaining timeframe.

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It can be time consuming to come to an agreement with the government to implement activities, and this can result in a shortened duration of project implementation. During this time new opportunities, information, legislation, resources or obstacles might occur.

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Creative is working at multiple levels to address the needs of government and regional authorities, as well as district and sector authorities. It is also working at school and community levels. This strategy multiplies the venues for awareness-raising and increases the likelihood of an impact.

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There is a strong contribution made by the case managers and community activists as change agents in monitoring beneficiaries and raising awareness about the child labor situation in the community through the Direct Beneficiary Monitoring System. This is an effective way of involving local authorities in both surveillance and the child labor situation at the local level.

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Target areas are often isolated. The nearest medical services are dozens of kilometers away, which made the medical caravans appreciated by households.

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The case managers have proven to be effective due to the high rate of community support and their local knowledge of students and their backgrounds. It is conducive to effective monitoring because students who are absent from school can be visited and counseled more readily. In addition, the verification process provides a comprehensive check of schools and beneficiaries through confirmation of their age, class, attendance, knowledge of child labor and student performance, as well as the progress of school committees and community-based child labor monitors.

Learning Description

The school support program is a comprehensive approach to school improvement that includes technical support, management guidance, training, awareness raising on child labor and child protection issues, some classroom or structural rehabilitation, such as latrines, and the provision of equipment and materials. Its focus on quality education also includes community and student participation, where the activities are for the ultimate benefit of all students.

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Government changes make ownership challenging: When there is a shift in government, such as in Myanmar after the election, there are both challenges and opportunities. In the Myanmar context, it is difficult for the project to position itself within government policies, since the government may try to adapt its own policies to the project (especially because of ILO Convention 182); this again complicates the transfer of ownership of project processes to the government. For example, it is important that the ownership of the Technical Working Group is shifted to the government. The project is aware of this challenge and is taking adequate measures to address it.