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Past Event

Participatory approaches to complex social issues like child labour

Hard labour: Understanding children’s experiences of urban child labour and what drives small informal businesses to hire them

9 July 2024 12:30–14:00

Institute of Development Studies Online on Zoom

This webinar articulates the research findings of a large participatory programme on Worst Forms of Child Labour in Bangladesh and Nepal (CLARISSA). It used participatory methods to build a micro level understanding of children’s lives, their workplaces, and their neighbourhoods.

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The audience will be introduced to the hard labour website. This is an immersive and interactive website which contains stories of children’s lives (a selection of the 800 children collected and analysed); children’s days, children’s workplaces, and the neighbourhoods where they live.

Speakers

  • Dr Jody Aked: overview and cross cutting findings
  • A.K. Maksud. Executive Director of the Grambangla Unnayan Committee: Findings from Bangladesh
  • Elizabeth Hacker: Findings from Nepal

Chair

Professor Danny Burns, IDS Research Fellow

Programme

  • Introduction – Danny Burns (5 mins)

Key findings

  • Cross-cutting findings – Jody Aked (10 mins)
  • What WFCL looks like in leather industry in Bangladesh + working with informal businesses (can include shadowing and PAR in terms of what we learned from working with them) – A.K. Maksud (10 mins)
  • What WFCL looks like in AES in Nepal + working with informal businesses (can include shadowing and PAR in terms of what we learned from working with them) – Elizabeth Hacker (10 mins)
  • What we still don’t know – Jody Aked (5 mins)

Hard Labour website

  • Introducing hard labour website – Danny Burns (20 mins)

Q&A

  • Questions and Answer (30 mins)

How to watch

This webinar will be streamed on Zoom.

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