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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 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.

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.

An English-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.

An English-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.

An English-language guide for investors and investees that can assist in building the capacity of investors to identify and assess harmful work for children and adults in their women's economic empowerment investments.

An English-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.

An English-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.

This English-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.