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A video that shows a child who entered the labor force due to poverty conditions. She was then able to enroll in vocational training where she learned to sew and received a sewing machine and is now able to pursue decent work to support herself and her family. This video includes both Burmese and English subtitles.

A video that shows a child who entered the labor force as a fisher due to poverty conditions. He was then able to enroll in vocational training where he learned mechanical and entrepreneurial skills and is now able to pursue decent work and further education to support himself and his family. This video includes both Burmese and English subtitles.

A video that shows a child who entered the labor force due to poverty conditions. He was then able to enroll in vocational training where he learned to weld and is now able to pursue decent work to support himself and his family. This video includes both Burmese and English subtitles.

An infographic describing the job placement pilot program implemented by the FORMITRA project. This program was implemented in three provinces: Santiago, Duarte, and San Juan. Participants completed four courses according to needs specific to that province's labor market, and were then placed in the local labor market through workshops and job fairs.

This document presents a French-language overview of the RICHES toolkit, a set of tools for supporting women’s enterprises responsibly and mitigating the risk of harmful work for children and adults or the use of other negative coping strategies, as well as an index of the individual tools.

This French-language guide explains how entrepreneurs can avoid harmful work for children and adults if given access to a portfolio of well-designed and implemented financial services. This guide aims to improve the design and implementation of financial services so that they have better uptake and use and create more benefit to women entrepreneurs and their families and so that they Do No Harm.

The website that hosts the RICHES toolkit, a set of resources designed for women’s economic empowerment actors to equip them with practical ideas and tools to integrate and assess child protection and safe business practices throughout their work.

A research article that examines the intersection between women's entrepreneurship, child labor, and harmful working conditions to develop a framework for healthy business growth. The article's findings suggest that as these businesses grow, the risk of child labor and harmful working conditions may also increase. The article outlines how specific financial services can be utilized to prevent child labor.

This document presents a Spanish-language overview of the RICHES toolkit, a set of tools for supporting women’s enterprises responsibly and mitigating the risk of harmful work for children and adults or the use of other negative coping strategies, as well as an index of the individual tools.

The purpose of this report is to evaluate the effect of the EMPOWER project on adolescent girls’ and women’s skill acquisition, participation in acceptable work and employment, and other related outcomes. The evaluation uses quantitative pre-post and descriptive analyses to describe outcomes and measure changes over time, complemented by qualitative analysis to contextualize findings.