Lesson-76535-2

Focusing on both child labor and other unacceptable working conditions in one project is not an “organic mix.” There was no natural alignment in the strategies to address child labor and those to address other unacceptable working conditions. From the project design, the prime grantee focused on child labor issues and the project’s collective impact strategies, while the sub-grantee, Alliance for Responsible Mining, focused almost exclusively on labor issues related to occupational safety and health in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector. This created a natural separation in strategies addressing both issues, and there were few opportunities to fully integrate the two issues as part of the larger collective impact approach.