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A report describing the final evaluation of the Sakriya: Civil Society Action to End Exploitative Child Labor project in Nepal. Fieldwork for this evaluation was conducted in February 2022. Sistemas, Familias y Sociedad (SFS) conducted this independent evaluation in collaboration with the project team and stakeholders

A compilation of three standalone reports on the situation of children in the brick, zari, and carpet industries across 49 areas of Nepal, based on survey data, case studies, and policy reviews. This information was then used to design awareness raising and prevention activities and to determine rehabilitative services to protect children from further harm and inform local government and NGO policies and future programs.

This summary report presents findings and recommendations following a comprehensive study commissioned by ILO1 to understand the impact that COVID-19 has and will continue to have upon the incidence and dynamics of child labour in Myanmar. Fieldwork was conducted remotely from Yangon and incorporated 6 focal states and regions as identified by ILO: Ayeyarwady Region, Bago Region, Kayin State, Mon State, Shan State and Yangon Region. All fieldwork took place between July 2020 –and January 2021.

An English-language, two (2) page brochure on the results of a 2020-21 ILO study examining the impact of COVID-19 on the incidence and dynamics of child labor in Myanmar.

This report analyzes the effect that Argentina's Emergency Family Income (Ingreso  Familiar de Emergencia (IFE)) program had on the participation of adolescents in the labor market, specifically considering the IFE as a protection and prevention mechanism against adolescents' their early insertion in the labor market. 

A report examining the role that social protection policies -- especially those aimed at providing income security for households with children and adolescents -- can play in reducing rates of child labor.  

A report examining the role that social protection policies -- especially those aimed at providing income security for households with children and adolescents -- can play in reducing rates of child labor.  Examines regional differences in coverage by recent Universal Child Allowance policy.

This study seeks to understand, from a gender perspective, the ways that families' living conditions, the labor trajectories of adults, and the gendered division of labor in households influence the relationship to work formed by boys, girls, and adolescents (niños, niñas, y adolescentes (NNyA)), as well as  expectations regarding their future job opportunities. 
This study employs a critical analysis approach to child labor (TI) that recognizes that the social relations generated in certain contexts determine, on the one hand, how childhood is defined, and on the other, the conditions and perceptions about it. 
These dynamics are analyzed using case studies of households in the Metropolitan Area of ​​Buenos Aires in 2020, the first full year of the COVID-19 pandemic and a year in which the economy and employment were in crisis.

It is critical to talk about gender-based violence as a major barrier to women's autonomy and development. Globally, one out of every three women over 15 years of age has suffered some type of violence by her partner, another aggressor or both, according to WHO data...

Between March and April 2021, Pact conducted a rapid assessment in Colombia as part of a more extensive exercise to determine community awareness of COVID-19 and acceptance and accessibility of the COVID-19 vaccine. The assessment was conducted in three Colombian towns (San Martin de Loba, El Bagre, and Zaragoza), where Pact implements development programs focusing on rural and vulnerable communities. Residents in these communities engage in the informal mining sector, making them among the most marginalized and vital models for the success of the COVID-19 mitigation efforts.