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Awareness message and delivery mode adapted to local audience (e.g., pictures, games), which maintained audience attention and enabled them to connect to their reality.

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Cascade training by local officials engaged officials with their constituents, emphasized importance of the issues and made good use of limited resources.

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Youth empowerment and confidence building was achieved by giving beneficiary children responsibilities for student council and peer tutoring

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Safe migration training — acknowledging that migration will continue, training focused on safeguards during transportation to and while in Thailand

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Social fund provided a local mechanism to meet the needs of the most vulnerable with commune and savings group mechanisms to continue to feed the fund.

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Regular reflection meetings by group (school, CCWC/CWG/CLMC, CP, etc.) allow participants to share experiences and solutions; this is easy to sustain post-project.

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High-performing youth trainees become trainers, providing an immediate reward for hard work, both in terms of recognition and income, and facilitates local provision of vocational training.

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NSC-CL site visits — direct observation of project interventions and personal testimony of impact on beneficiaries’ lives is the best “sales tool” available.

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Cross-fertilization with other U.S. Government and donor projects — sharing ideas across donors results in synergies such as EXCEL use of the USAID Helping Address Rural Vulnerabilities and Ecosystem Stability (HARVEST) project technology for drip irrigation.

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Producer associations if and when value-added exists — while not appropriate for every village or sector, significant value-added is possible when markets or cost-sharing justify cooperation (e.g., sewing).