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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Evidence review: Child marriage interventions and research from 2020 to 2022
Objectives This review looks at emerging evidence on proven and promising interventions to prevent child marriage and support girls who are married, divorced, separated or widowed, and/or are young mothers.…
Thematic Brief: Girls’ education and child marriage
Objectives This brief aims to explain the two-way relationship between girls’ education and child marriage, drawing on global evidence and trends. It outlines how education delays marriage and how child…
Successful multisectoral and multilevel approaches to address child marriage
Objectives The study aims to synthesise emerging evidence on how multisectoral and multilevel approaches can effectively delay child marriage and support adolescent girls. It seeks to shift attention from diagnosing…
Thematic brief: Supporting married girls and adolescent mothers and girls who are pregnant
Objectives This brief aims to highlight the close interlinkages between child marriage and adolescent pregnancy, given that the vast majority of adolescent births occur within marriage. It seeks to articulate…
Decade of progress: Ten years of Girls Not Brides and the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage
Objectives The report aims to take stock of the first ten years of Girls Not Brides and the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, assessing progress in reducing child marriage,…
Updated research gaps on ending child marriage and supporting married girls for 2020–2030
Objectives The study aimed to review progress made in building the evidence base on child marriage since the 2015 research priorities were published. It sought to identify updated research gaps…
Civil society and budget advocacy to end child marriage: Lessons learned from six pilot projects
Objectives The document aims to showcase how civil society organisations across six countries; Nigeria, Pakistan (Punjab and Sindh), Kenya, Togo and Mexico, used budget advocacy to strengthen government action to…
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