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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Legal Handling of Child Marriage as a Violation of Human Rights in Pakistan
Summary & Objectives This article examines child marriage in Pakistan through a human-rights and legal lens, assessing how international obligations and national legal frameworks address the practice and where enforcement…
Tick tick boom: the rise of child marriage in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic
Summary & Objectives This study analyses the surge in child marriage in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic, using national court data on marriage dispensation applications from 2019 to 2021. It…
Meta-synthesis and meta-analysis of evidence on child marriage in South Asia
Summary & Objectives This report synthesises and quantitatively analyses evidence on interventions aimed at preventing child marriage in South Asia between 2010 and 2024. Drawing on 65 studies across eight…
Child Marriages in South Africa: An Assessment of How the Custom of Ukuthwala Aligns with the Proposed Single Marriage Bill
Summary & Objectives This study examines child marriage in South Africa through an assessment of how the customary practice of ukuthwala aligns with the proposed Single Marriage Bill. Using documentary…
Individual and interpersonal factors influencing child marriage: A qualitative content analysis study
Summary & Objectives This qualitative study examines the individual and interpersonal factors that shape child marriage among girls married before the age of 15 in Bam city, Kerman Province, Iran.…
Determinants of child marriage among rural women in the West Guji Zone, Southern Ethiopia, 2024: a community-based cross-sectional study
Summary & Objectives This study examines the prevalence and determinants of child marriage among rural women of reproductive age in the West Guji Zone of southern Ethiopia, a setting where…
Strategies to End Child Marriage in the Horn of Africa region: Literature Review
Objectives Commissioned by Girls Not Brides in Oct 2023, the review aimed to: (1) map current actors and interventions tackling child marriage in Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan & Sudan; (…
Child Marriage Issue in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam: Current Situation and Solution
Summary & Objectives This study examines the persistence of child marriage in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam, with a particular focus on ethnic minority communities, despite sustained national policy efforts to…
Child marriage and well-being in Central and Western Africa: A scoping review of costs and potential benefits for girls
Summary & Objectives This scoping review synthesises evidence on the costs and potential benefits of child marriage for girls’ well-being in Central and Western Africa, a region where the practice…
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