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Summary: Submitted to the Child Protection and Gender Equality Programme of the Canadian International Development Agency. In order to impact policies regarding child labourers and tribal children facing discrimination in rural India, local people need to gain the capacity to design and implement their own community responsive research and solutions. Therefore, this child action-research involved adolescents and women as key participants, researchers, and stakeholders in the entire research process. This approach, some term the Barefoot Approach, is based on the premise that the target beneficiaries of any programme are the best policy advisors, researchers and technicians for developing local solutions that will respect the local conditions and culture. The participatory process was designed to be inclusive by using local knowledge, language, mapping & communication tools based on imagery, puppets and personal interviews to ensure accessibility of all appropriate people, many of which were functionally illiterate. In this project, the core research team included tribal men, women, and youth from over sixty-three remote rural villages Further information: This report was part of the Canadian International Development Agency's (CIDA) child protection research fund.