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A French-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,

A French-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.

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.

A French-language guide to assist women's economic empowerment staff in better understanding the local characteristics and experiences of harmful work for children (child labor) and adults as they occur generally, and within women’s enterprises, to integrate child protection into women's economic empowerment actor product and service design.

A French-language guide to enable women's economic empowerment, child protection, and other actors to collaboratively provide participants a comprehensive, holistic package of services that will increase their ability to address issues of harmful work for children (child labor) and adults, and to strengthen their livelihoods. This includes developing local resources, assessing organizational capacity, identifying appropriate linkages, formalizing linkages, and managing linkages.

A French-language training presentation that helps train women's economic empowerment actors to effectively assist their participants in establishing and operating safe and healthy workplaces for themselves, their children, and all their workers by learning how to combat harmful work for children (child labor) and adults (harmful working conditions), how to locate useful information and resources for addressing these issues, and how to utilize what they have learned to make strategic decisions for their organizations. This training can be implemented as a self-paced training or as an in-person, facilitated session.

A French-language resource for trainers and facilitators that guides them in the administering of training on understanding harmful work. This training helps train women's economic empowerment actors to effectively assist their participants in establishing and operating safe and healthy workplaces for themselves, their children, and all their workers by learning how to combat harmful work for children (child labor) and adults (harmful working conditions), how to locate useful information and resources for addressing these issues, and how to utilize what they have learned to make strategic decisions for their organizations.

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.