Between 2022 and 2023 CLARISSA researchers spent over 30 days accompanying and observing the day-to-day realities of owners and workers in ten informal enterprises that rely on child labour.
Spending time with business owners in their places of work, and developing trusting relationships with them, has enabled a rich understanding to emerge of the pressures, business models and working practices that create and sustain a need for worst forms of child labour.
Read about how children have become critical actors in the leather supply chain system in Bangladesh and the adult entertainment sector in Nepal.

Bangladesh

Working with poor infrastructure in poor health – a tannery in Dhaka

Making hand-made shoes for less than the price of machine-made shoes

“In this sector both the employers and the staff members are poor” Leather cutting in Dhaka

Production-based wages and child apprentices – shoe making in Dhaka

“We know these chemicals are dangerous” A tannery in Dhaka
