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Projects like E2A require flexibility to make mid-course corrections based on changes in the operating environments. The E2A project maintained sufficient flexibility to allow for constant adaptations and adjustments to political situations and changes requested by stakeholders and project partners at the global level as well as in Argentina and Madagascar. The E2A project team demonstrated flexibility on numerous occasions during research activities to adjust and adapt its approaches. For example, rather than creating a national advisory committee as called for in the project document, E2A collaborated with the Executive Committee and involved them in the design of the research activities and the due diligence tools. Based on stakeholder interest in learning more about home-based garment workers, the project included this sub-population in the prevalence survey sample to determine forced labor prevalence rates. The project also conducted a home-based garment worker case study to better understand gender, migrant workers, and other key dimensions of forced labor as well as giving them a voice through the case study.