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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Do multi-level adolescent-centric interventions improve girls’ capabilities? Mixed-methods evidence from a cluster randomised controlled trial in Ethiopia
Summary & Objectives The paper aimed to assess the short- and medium-term impacts of multi-level adolescent-centric interventions designed to transform gender norms and improve girls’ capabilities in rural Ethiopia. It…
Time to UnMute | Understanding Forced Marriage in Hong Kong
This report highlights the reality that forced marriage occurs in Hong Kong. Eleven women were courageous and generous enough to share their experiences and perspectives on early and forced marriage.…
Effectiveness of combined interventions to empower girls and address social norms in reducing child marriage in a rural sub-district of Bangladesh: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of the Tipping Point Initiative
Summary & Objectives The study aimed to assess whether the Tipping Point Initiative, implemented as two packages (TPP and TPP+), reduced the hazard of child marriage among never-married girls aged…
The law and child, early and forced marriage and unions. A synthesis of recent evidence on impact and implications
Objectives Research from the past decade speaks to the shortcomings of CEFMU laws in their design and implementation, particularly when they are not part of a holistic, rights-based approach. Also…
CRANK Research Spotlight: Education interventions to address child marriage and support married girls
Objectives In 2011, the WHO published a set of guidelines on preventing early pregnancy and poor reproductive outcomes in adolescents. In 2023, they commissioned a review of the evidence to…
Working with the Grain: Nonconfrontational pathways to Normative Change. Convergence of Interests and Latent Drivers.
Conventional approaches to social transformation posit that transforming social exclusion into social inclusion involves challenging the status quo and power relations.
Work carried out by the Mobilising for Development (M4D)…
The causal effect of early marriage on women’s bargaining power: Evidence from Bangladesh
Summary & Objectives The study aimed to estimate the causal effect of age at marriage on women’s bargaining power in rural Bangladesh. It sought to measure how delaying marriage affects…
A protocol for a controlled, pre-post intervention study to change attitudes toward child marriage in Southwestern Nigeria using targeted radio programming
Background Child marriage hinders progress toward population health and development goals. Cost effective interventions that address the root causes of child marriage are needed to speed progress toward ending the…
Trends in child marriage, sexual violence, early sexual intercourse and the challenges for policy interventions to meet the sustainable development goals
Summary & Objectives The study aimed to describe changes in the prevalence of child marriage, sexual violence and early sexual intercourse in low- and middle-income countries between 1990 and 2020.…
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