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A brief on the final evaluation of the RICHES project that lists the key results related to the RICHES Toolkit, promising practices, lessons learned, and recommendations according to the intended audience.

This document presents an English-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.

An English-language presentation that can be used with women's economic empowerment initiative staff and relevant stakeholders or independently as a learning resource. This presentation makes the case for integrating child protection into women's economic empowerment initiatives and demonstrates practical actions women's economic empowerment actors can take to mitigate the risk that their programs can engage in harmful child labor practices.

An English-language guide for diagnosing and mitigating safety and health risks within women’s businesses. This guide contains four tools: a business safety & health risk diagnostic for frontline staff, a business safety & health risk diagnostic for entrepreneurs, a graphic-only business safety & health risk diagnostic for entrepreneurs, and a link to the digital business safety & health risk diagnostic for entrepreneurs.

An English-language guide to be used by experienced trainers to prepare frontline-level staff or other community-based facilitators of or engaged by women's economic empowerment actors to facilitate technical learning conversations with women entrepreneurs. These conversations aim to improve awareness among women entrepreneurs and their families to recognize signs of harmful work for children (child labor) and adults within their businesses and other income-generating activities and to devise solutions to mitigate harm.

An English-language guide to be used by facilitators and frontline staff to facilitate technical learning conversations with women entrepreneurs. These conversations aim to improve awareness among women entrepreneurs and their families to recognize signs of harmful work for children (child labor) and adults within their businesses and other income-generating activities and to devise solutions to mitigate harm.

A set of images with English-language captions to support visuals during education sessions to be used by facilitators and frontline staff to facilitate technical learning conversations with women entrepreneurs. These conversations aim to improve awareness among women entrepreneurs and their families to recognize signs of harmful work for children (child labor) and adults within their businesses and other income-generating activities and to devise solutions to mitigate harm.

An English-language guide that aims to build the capacity of women's economic empowerment actors to engage households and communities in conversations about harmful work for children and adults, business risks, improving working conditions, decision-making, gender, and power. It consists of four interactive sessions that seek to engage families in talking about business and family resources, including the labor being used.

An English-language tool for evaluating potential risks and unintended consequences of harmful work for children (child labor) and adults within specific contexts, programs, and women’s businesses. This tool raises awareness and encourages action of women's economic empowerment actors to diagnose and mitigate safety and health risks within women’s businesses. The risk assessments consist of two parts: Part 1 covers risks to harmful child work and Part 2 covers business safety and health risks for adults and children,

An English-language set of tools to improve social performance management, including assessment tools, survey questions, and policy templates. These tools promote the basic standards of practice that should exist among all women's economic empowerment actors to demonstrate intent, commitment, processes, and achievements for mitigating the risks of the unintended consequences of WEE programming. The tools within this guide are designed to broadly address Do No Harm to ensure that women's economic empowerment actors can also use these standards to influence practices related to other areas of risk, such as gender-based violence and harassment, environmental harm, etc.