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Extra-curricular activities on life skills, simple socio-behavioral skills including hygiene, skills development on crafts, dance, cooking, and others are helpful for children’s overall development.

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Pilot action on agricultural training for children and parents was good and could be explored for scaling up in agricultural project areas.

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Professional group development for children completing vocational/skills training has potential but needs further analysis to determine elements that can be strengthened and how to address some of the challenges.

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Field trips to private companies, including small and micro-enterprises can be very motivating and provide useful information to project children in all types of education (general education and vocational/skills training).

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The project effectively promoted the establishment of the Dina, i.e., local traditional social conventions that are established among the members of a community and do not require formal political authority involvement. Community support structures in the form of LCCLs initiated and supported the development of Dina on the elimination of child labor.

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Partnerships with programs such as the SEECALINE program on cooking nutritious meals using locally available food has potential for replication.

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The switch to the Access-based monitoring system was a useful step as it allows local staff to appreciate how they could look at and interpret the meaning of their data on their own using just a few clicks of their computer mouse. In the past, data was only analyzed at project headquarters so local staff found the increased accessibility of results per child and for their region as a whole useful.

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In WORTH groups, literacy training and manuals on group management, small-scale activity management with the support of training manuals need to start as early as possible after a WORTH group is launched.

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Conducting local labor research on potential (self) employment options in project areas for youth after vocational/skills training is needed. Such research needs to include the identification of locally relevant training options, either through formal/non-formal training centers or apprenticeship training.

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A relatively effective database on project beneficiary children has been developed but methodologies need to be adapted during project implementation for sustained use by LCCLs.