Programa de Comercio y Pobreza en Latinoamérica
Trade and Poverty in Latin America
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COPLA Bolivia

The team from GNTP has developed an initiative that considers three pillars: capacity building pilot initiatives, an evidence lab or hub and dialogue for impact. The inception phase of their strategy therefore sees work carried out on two equally important fronts: raising awareness and establishing partnerships with key actors with whom to develop capacity building pilot projects and engage in dialogues; and carrying out in depth research on the three sectors identified to identify concrete capacity needs of the different actors and set the stage for new research and capacity development opportunities.

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Cheap hand labor in the chestnuts shacks

More than 3000 boys and girls work illegally and in precarious conditions; this adds to 3.500 adolescents that work in similar conditions and without labor rights in the collection and processing of chestnut. A big quantity of them present (decline )held back in school because of this work, others got sick with malaria or parasitism; but their worst ailment is to be held as cheap hand labor for the working market or the Amazonia north of Bolivia.

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