Key information:
Date: 3rd December 2024
Time: 10:00 – 11:30 CET
Format: Online webinar:
This event, hosted by Terre des Hommes, will:
- Introduce a practical learning and reflection series People Driven Solutions for development and humanitarian practitioners based on learning and evidence generated by the Action Research programme, Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA).
- Interactively engage with the different topics in the resource and discuss their added value to development and humanitarian practitioners.
- Identify those who might want to explore further by using the resource with their teams on the ground.
People Driven Solutions will support teams, programmes or organisations to reflect on their own practice and current and future programmes/projects – and to contextualise and shift these toward a context-specific, evidence-informed, and child- and people-centred approach.
Background to this webinar:
CLARISSA (Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia) is a systemic action research consortium generating evidence-informed, innovative solutions by children and business owners to tackle hazardous, exploitative labour in Bangladesh and Nepal. Through a large-scale Participatory Action Research process, it has enabled both children in or at risk of the worst forms of child labour and business owners to act as engines of new innovation. The children and business owners themselves collected and analysed evidence on the drivers into the worst forms of child labour; generated theories of change about interventions to address these drivers; planned and programmed innovative solutions; tested these solutions in real-time, and then evaluated these themselves. CLARISSA therefore brought forward context-appropriate methods to surfacing evidence around complex social issues (in this case child labour), generating child-driven innovative solutions to addressing these, and strategies for bringing about systems change.
Using a mix of theory-based and participatory methods to document the process alongside thematic research, this flagship programme has – over the course of half a decade – rigorously tested, documented, analysed and built evidence on both the activities in the programme and how the programme was managed. There is significant relevance of all of this evidence to be applied in ways that can generate new and innovative, people-driven solutions to a wide range of persistent or seemingly intractable challenges in development and humanitarian settings.
CLARISSA has therefore translated its main lessons learned into a practitioner-focused online and interactive resource designed to support teams, programmes or organisations (grassroots to international) seeking to identify new ways to work reflectively and systemically, while deepening participation and supporting pathways to transformative systems change in tackling complex social issues (like child labour). This practitioner-focused resource will support teams, programmes or organisations to reflect on their own practice and current and future programmes/projects – and to contextualise and shift these toward a context-specific, evidence-informed, and child- and people-centred approach.
To read about people-driven solutions click here.
To learn more about Clarissa, click here
