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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Time to act: Accelerating efforts to eliminate child, early and forced marriage in Asia. Emerging effective interventions and strategies
The Time to Act! report was produced with the support of UNFPA APRO and it builds on the previous report Their Time Is Now, providing recent evidence on the prevalence,…
Their time is now: Eliminating child, early and forced marriage in Asia. Integral technical report
Plan International undertook extensive research on the prevalence of child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand,…
Delivering impact for adolescent girls: Emerging findings from Population Council research
Objectives The brief aims to synthesize evidence from nine rigorous evaluations of empowerment and asset-building interventions for adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries, with a focus on their effects…
Informe sobre uniones tempranas en México: Resumen Ejecutivo
Objectives The report aims to describe how common early unions are among girls aged 12–17 in Mexico and how they vary across regions and population groups. It seeks to examine…
New Findings on Child Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) conducted research in Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia to contribute to greater understanding of the drivers of child marriage in each of…
The global state of evidence on interventions to prevent child marriage
Objectives The brief aimed to synthesise rigorous evidence on what works to prevent child marriage by reviewing interventions evaluated through RCTs, quasi-experimental studies and natural experiments over the past 20…
Has child marriage declined in sub‐Saharan Africa? An analysis of trends in 31 countries
The study used data from Demographic and Health Surveys in 31 countries to measure trends in child marriage over time. Age at marriage is rising throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The singulate…
Do labour market opportunities affect young women’s work and family decisions? Experimental evidence from India
Objectives The paper tests whether exogenous improvements in modern labor market opportunities for young women in rural India change their work, schooling, marriage, and fertility decisions. It evaluates a three-year…
Adolescent Girls in India Choose a Better Future: An Impact Assessment
Objectives The study aimed to measure the impact of CEDPA’s Better Life Options Program on low-income adolescent girls and young women in India by comparing alumnae with similar non-participants, focusing…
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