CRANK Research Tracker
The CRANK’s Research Tracker is a curated resource with details of ongoing and upcoming research by CRANK members. Use it to avoid duplicating research, and to identify priority research areas.
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Education and life skills: focus on increasing girls’ enrolment, retention and completion of quality education and transition to work, increasing the perceived value of girls’ education. Delivered through schools or associated programmes. E.g. cash and in-kind transfers for education, targeted and tailored life skills for girls, capacity enhancement for teachers.
Gender and social norms: focus on engaging with individuals, families, communities and institutions to challenge discriminatory norms and promote gender equality, including around girls’ sexuality, economic roles and safety. E.g. discussion groups, community dialogues, male engagement, media and communication interventions.
Girl-focused approaches: focus on girls’ skills development, confidence building and support structures; promoting their rights, wellbeing and gender equality; and increasing alternatives to marriage. This may be through, access to education, health care, economic opportunities and decision-making. E.g. safe spaces, life skills sessions, savings start-ups.
Health - maternal and child, public health crises and broader health: focus on broader health to address maternal/child health, public health crises. E.g. COVID-19, Ebola.
Health - mental health and psychosocial support: focus on addressing mental health conditions related with child marriage. Mental health is an individual’s ability to cope and state of wellbeing in which they can build relationships and realise their own aspirations.
Health - sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR): focus on safe and healthy sexual behaviour, and access to services. E.g. comprehensive sexuality education, health and information services around prevention of unintended pregnancy, gender based violence, female genital mutilation / cutting and access to contraception.
Income and economic strengthening: focus on alleviating poverty and contributing to inclusive economic growth. E.g. cash transfers and economic incentives (to delay marriage and keep girls in school), social assistance, vocational training, favourable job markets.
Laws and policies: focus on reforms to establish girls’ and women’s rights, including through setting the minimum age of marriage at 18 years and ensuring access to justice. E.g. Legal support and advocacy, establishing gender-transformative family, property and inheritance laws, strengthening birth and marriage registration, ensuring access to child protection, education, sexual and reproductive rights and protection from gender-based violence.
Systems strengthening: focus on improving the capacity, efficiency and effectiveness of policies and services. Promoting cross-sectoral collaboration and coordination – including in health, education and social protection – to improve outcomes and impact for girls and women. E.g. capacity enhancement, policy and regulatory reforms, service delivery.
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Keeping girls in schools to reduce child marriage in rural Bangladesh: Endline assessment
Summary & Objectives The study aims to evaluate whether a targeted, school-based safe-space programme for underperforming and out-of-school adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh can improve school retention and learning and…
Impacts of Multisectoral Cash Plus Programs on Marriage and Fertility After 4 Years in Pastoralist Kenya: A Randomized Trial
Summary & Objectives The study aimed to assess whether a 2-year multisectoral “cash-plus” programme for adolescent girls in pastoralist Wajir, Kenya—combining community gender-norm dialogues, conditional cash transfers for schooling, girls’…
Heterogeneous impacts of interventions aiming to delay girls' marriage and pregnancy across girls' backgrounds and social contexts
Summary & Objectives The paper aimed to examine how the impacts of interventions designed to delay girls’ marriage and pregnancy vary by girls’ backgrounds and social context in Bangladesh and…
Education, Child Marriage, and Work Outcomes Among Young People in Rural Malawi
Summary & Objectives The study aimed to examine whether child marriage changes how education translates into paid and unpaid work among young people in rural Malawi. It assessed how grade…
What Are the Drivers of Child Marriage? A Conceptual Framework to Guide Policies and Programs
Objectives The paper aims to develop a simplified conceptual framework that explains the core drivers of child marriage for girls and links these drivers to policy and program design across…
More Than Brides Alliance: Endline evaluation report More Than Brides Alliance: Endline evaluation report
Summary & Objectives The evaluation aimed to assess the impact of the More Than Brides Alliance “Marriage: No Child’s Play” programme on child marriage, schooling, livelihoods, SRHR knowledge and gender…
Voice Without Choice? Investigating Adolescent Girls’ Agency in Marital Decision-making in Niger
Summary & Objectives The study aimed to explore how adolescent girls in Niger perceive their own agency in marital decision-making. It sought to understand the social and structural factors that…
Bangladesh: COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, practices and needs. Responses from three rounds of data collection among adolescent girls in districts with high rates of child marriage
From 20 to 30 April 2020, during a nationwide lockdown, the Population Council Bangladesh conducted the first round of a rapid phone-based survey on COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes and practices. The…
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