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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.

A Spanish-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 diagnostics for entrepreneurs, and a link to the digital business safety & health risk diagnostic for entrepreneurs.

A Spanish-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.

A Spanish-language guide that provides monitoring and evaluation tools that can be used to support the assessment of a women's economic empowerment actor implementing RICHES tools. Various tools are provided, such as pre- and post-test surveys and focus group discussion guides that assess changes in knowledge, attitudes, and practices among participants, quality control tools, and workshop evaluations for managers and frontline-level staff. This guide also provides tools that can be adapted for multiple purposes such as for project management or evaluation.

A Spanish-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,

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.

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.