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Local private training providers- identifying local resources means increased proximity, cost savings and capacity building for future training.

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Strengthening CLCs — these centers exist and offer practical training at no cost to the community; they can be a viable alternative to project vocational training for youth and adults under MoEYS sponsorship.

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The designed scope of the project in terms of the target beneficiary number should have been more modest to allow for greater quality of delivery and more manageable scope in terms of staff resources.

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The livelihoods model could have been designed differently from the outset; rather than assigning better off families to savings groups and the poorest to livelihoods development start-up, it could have ensured that all households access a combination of savings services and livelihoods supports.

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Volunteers can be successfully mobilized at commune level, for example the community partners and the CWGs and equivalent groups.

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Ensuring consistent and continuous monitoring and quality data collection is vital to ensure the project is properly tracking its interventions and targets and capturing its achievements and learning

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Establishing working groups (TWG-CL and E-TWG) at the national level has helped the project engage the national partners in support of the project and align its implementation with country developments in relevant sectors.

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Exposure and monitoring visits can be very helpful for the stakeholders in different localities to learn from each other.

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Fostering child leaders on child labor issues, including children who are members of the student councils. Children were able to speak out eloquently on child labor at the national workshop and in meetings with student councils.

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Focusing multiple supports to an individual household, including livelihoods support plus allowing several children within a household to be supported by scholarships, is an effective approach to ensure child labor does not shift from one child in a family to their sibling.