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Mainstreaming gender issues in future projects would shed light on the phenomenon of girls’ work and help generate culturally sensitive approaches to addressing them.

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Future projects should work with relevant line ministries to ensure that educational service timing is convenient to most beneficiaries and takes their circumstances into consideration.

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A multifaceted approach is the most effective project design. This includes working with government, labor, and employer sectors, and providing a combination of tangible products as well as technical assistance for longer-term institutional change. The tangible products include equipment and infrastructure improvements for the MOLs, as well as educational materials available to government, employer, and labor sectors. Technical assistance leading to longer-term institutional change within the MOLs includes designing and implementing electronic case management systems, establishing internal procedures, and designing and implementing training programs.

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The tripartite process of designing, validating, and implementing major project activities or products has proven to be a valuable framework by which to create buy-in and develop relationships with project stakeholders.

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An excellent organizational model for implementing a regional project is to establish an office that can offer regional oversight, coordination, and evaluation of activities among countries, in combination with a local office/representative in each country that can offer leadership in executing the project activities within the local context.

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Five years is an insufficient amount of time to establish a regional labor law compliance program, implement activities with tripartite stakeholders, and evaluate the impact on national labor law compliance. Regional projects that establish a strategic objective of long-term institutional and social change require no less than 7 years to effectively implement program activities and evaluate their corresponding impact.

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Two years is a woefully inadequate amount of time to design and implement activities related to strengthening mechanisms that promote and protect women’s labor rights. A complex subject such as this, which has received little attention in the past, requires years of technical support and effort to effectively implement and institutionalize program activities and evaluate their corresponding impact.

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Curriculum-based labor education activities that are implemented through adult education institutions provide a structure that leads to greater sustainability of project messages.

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Radio spots are a crucial mechanism for disseminating information broadly, particularly to worker populations who may not receive educational information through any other source. Although the sustainability is difficult to achieve, they are worth the ongoing attention that they require.

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The development of a standardized electronic case management system enables countries to monitor data and prioritize activities that lead to greater labor law compliance and enforcement.