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A news article about the need for livelihood support programs in Nepal and the launch of the Bridge Project to support efforts to end forced and bonded labor practices in Nepal.

A collection of three new articles about the launch of the Bridge Project in Nepal to support efforts to address forced and bonded labor in Nepal. The collection includes articles from the following media platforms: The Rising Nepal; Republica; and the Himalayan News Service.

This document provides the methodological guidelines for a survey of measurement of forced labor risks for adequate monitoring of the actions that have been carried out for the BRIDGE project. This stems from a need to generate quantitative information on the levels of knowledge of the concept and situation of forced labor in Peru and levels of risk and working conditions of vulnerable populations subject to forced labor.

This Practical Guide aims at providing practical orientations and the required guidance to prevent and eliminate child labor in domestic work as well as at protecting young domestic workers of legal working age. It also provides information on approaches and intervention models, as well as practical tools that have been developed or tested across the world to address and tackle a range of key issues concerning child domestic workers and child domestic work, offering when possible and available, examples from different regions of the world on relevant experiences, results and lessons learnt.

This manual seeks to help justices of the peace have more information about the problem of forced labor in Peru and help them identify cases of forced labor so that they can implement the actions that correspond to them within the framework of their functions. Although justices of the peace are not empowered to resolve cases related to crimes, they have a crucial role insofar as their powers are limited to the field of prevention, awareness and inter-institutional coordination for handling cases of forced labor.

This report constitutes an exploratory analysis of two previously selected border areas of Peru: between Peru and Ecuador through Tumbes and the triple border between Peru and Brazil and Colombia. These borders show a growing presence of forced labor and human trafficking, and this report offers a proposal of criteria that allow decisions to be made to carry out future in-depth investigations of these borders by regional governments and public & private institutions.

This is a research study that seeks to document the form of recruitment and economic logic of human trafficking and forced labor, as well as to establish analytical connections with the importance of illegal economies and organized crime in the triple border area of Peru, Brazil, and Colombia. The study seeks to collect data that facilitates the development of intervention strategies and implementation of national public policies for prevention, detection and prosecution.

This assessment of the Labor Inspectorate was conducted to contribute to a better understanding of the legislative, social and administrative environment in which Inspectors function, and the challenges they face in their day‐to‐day work. Information gathered from desk research and interviews with key stakeholders revealed common themes that inform the recommendations in this assessment. This assessment provides an overview of sectors in which child labor is most prevalent, an overview of the legal and policy framework relevant to addressing child labor, an overview pertaining to the activities of the Labor Inspectorate and recommendations to improve their response to child labor, and information on different actors' activities to address child labor.

This report provides information on beneficiaries after the WEKEZA project, including changes from the baseline study in household characteristics and knowledge of and attitudes toward child labor, as well as  information on the extent to which children aged 5 to17 remained engaged in child  labor. The  findings  are  presented with the findings of the baseline survey conducted in September  2013 and with the desired impacts on targeted beneficiaries. The report also  explains how each objective contributed to the overall achievement of the project. Of note, Appendix 2 in the document has been removed for privacy purposes. 

Endline study for the ARCH project, which assesses measurable changes that occurred throughout the lifespan of the project and compares the findings with those from the baseline survey. The endline survey provides improved understanding of the outcomes of project activities, changes that transpired in the prevalence of child labor in project areas, and assessed possible impacts of the project interventions on the project’s direct beneficiaries.