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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An Exploration of Social Norms That Restrict Girls’ Sexuality and Facilitate Child Marriage in Bangladesh to Inform Policies and Programs
The study aimed to identify and explain the social norms that restrict girls’ sexuality and sustain child marriage in rural northern Bangladesh. It sought to understand how expectations around girls’…
The Effect of EITC Exposure in Childhood on Marriage and Early Childbearing
The study examined whether exposure to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) during childhood affects the timing of first marriage and first birth in early adulthood. It focused on young…
Research study on child marriage in Italy
Child marriage is a serious human rights violation and form of sexual violence againstchildren. This document, created at the initiative of No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ) with the support of…
‘Young Leaders’ Experiences and Recommendations to Strategically Tackle Child, Early, and Forced Marriage,’
Tackling the drivers and outcomes of child marriage requires the voices of young activists and researchers as we are able to bring a fresh perspective to understanding the pressures that…
Gender Norms, Control Over Girls’ Sexuality, and Child Marriage: A Honduran Case Study
The study aimed to examine how gender norms linked to marianismo, girls’ mobility, and control over girls’ sexuality shape child marriage in rural Honduras. It sought to quantify the association…
Learning Brief #4: Fostering survivor-centred response services
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…
Towards ending child marriage: Global trends and profiles of progress
The report aims to present global and regional trends in child marriage and analyse how patterns have changed over the last three decades. It seeks to identify the structural conditions…
What's the worth of a promise? Evaluating the longer-term indirect effects of a programme to reduce early marriage in India
The paper evaluates the long-term effects of Haryana’s Apni Beti Apna Dhan (ABAD) conditional cash transfer, which promised a lump-sum to girls who remained unmarried until 18. It examines whether…
Mapping the Field of Child Marriage: Evidence, Gaps, and Future Directions From a Large-Scale Systematic Scoping Review, 2000-2019
The paper aimed to map the global evidence base on child marriage over the period 2000–2019. It sought to describe how research on child marriage has evolved over time, across…
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