Lesson-148828-1

Civil servants who work in fields associated with a challenging issue like child labor, from social workers to law enforcement agents to labor representatives, have a thirst for advanced trainings and capacity building to improve their individual and agency-level impact. Capacity building training has been very well received, and agents show demonstrable improvement in knowledge and remediation strategies, as evidenced by their familiarity with Save the Children Federation-supported guidelines for working with children, addressing gender-based violence, and other themes critical to their work. Yet, if they are unable to effectively reach communities, their impact will face hard limits. Unfortunately, the communities most in need of social workers and other assistance from social service agencies are often the most remote and difficult to reach. Local governments have limited resources to provide adequate means of transportation and mobility, so many of the capacity building benefits remain stuck in departmental capitals while critical needs persist in target communities.