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This issue paper addresses the twin challenges of child labor and education exclusion among indigenous children. The paper demonstrates that indigenous children face a higher risk of child labor than other children, and are often significantly over-represented in hazardous work and the worst forms of child labor. These children also face limited access to education, with particular limitations found among indigenous girls. Factors influencing this situation include land dispossession, climate change, migration, and constraints on traditional indigenous livelihoods

Let's Learn About Child Labor: This presentation raises awareness on the worst forms of child labor, children's right to protected work, platforms for identification and reporting, and highlights the inter-institutional committee for the eradication of child labor.

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.

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.

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.