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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‘Intersecting Disadvantages for Married Adolescents: Life After Marriage Pre- and Post-COVID-19 in Contexts of Displacement.’
Although there is a growing evidence base on the drivers of child marriage, comparatively little is known about the experiences of married girls in refugee settings and how their development…
Child marriage and its association with morbidity and mortality of under-5 years old children in Bangladesh
Summary & Objectives This study examines whether child marriage is associated with morbidity and mortality among children under five in Bangladesh. Using nationally representative BDHS data from 1993-2018, with detailed…
The health consequences of child marriage: A systematic review of the evidence
We used publicly available data from 2000 and 2010 censuses to estimate the national- and provincial-level prevalence of child marriage across mainland China. Between 2000 and 2010, the prevalence of…
Overlooked and unaddressed: A narrative review of mental health consequences of child marriages
Summary & Objectives This narrative review synthesises global evidence on the mental health consequences of child marriage, addressing a major gap in a literature that has historically prioritised sexual and…
Leveraging large-scale sectoral programmes to prevent child marriage
Summary & Objectives The report aims to examine how large-scale sectoral programmes can be leveraged to prevent child marriage, using case studies from Ethiopia, West Bengal and Bihar. It seeks…
The Power of Education to End Child Marriage
Summary & Objectives The brief aims to show how girls’ education and child marriage are linked using recent global survey data. It seeks to quantify differences in child marriage risk…
Feminist and women’s movements in the context of ending violence against women and girls – implications for funders and grant makers
Summary & Objectives The review aims to clarify how feminist and women’s movements contribute to ending violence against women and girls. It maps key concepts, theories and frameworks on social…
The threat to adolescent development from Covid-19 in rural Bangladesh
Extended school closures in Bangladesh since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic has, according to a wide range of media sources, increased the risk of early marriage among adolescent girls.…
Learning Brief #5: What Works to Advance Women's Economic Empowerment
Oxfam's "Creating spaces to take action on violence against women and girls" project (2016-2021) aims to reduce violence against women and girls (VAWG), including the prevalence of child, early and…
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