Child marriage is a global issue. It is fuelled by gender inequality, poverty, social norms and insecurity, and has devastating consequences all over the world.
Explore our vision and mission to end child marriage, learn about our organisational structure, and discover how we work as a global partnership to drive change and empower girls worldwide.
Girls Not Brides members are civil society organisations committed to working together to end child marriage and support married girls. Our strength is our diversity.
Discover tools, resources and events to learn more about child marriage and related issues, and be successful in your advocacy, youth activism and fundraising.
Discover the latest news and stories about child marriage, and the work our member organisations and partners in the broader movement are doing to end the harmful practice.
Since 2019 the Association for Community Empowerment Solutions (ACESWorld) has worked with more than 1100 adolescent girls in rural Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda to understand better the barriers to their education, health, and well-being. Although reliable access to sanitary pads and reproductive health education is often insufficient to improve health and education outcomes, our analysis suggests that access to sanitary pads and reproductive health education within more comprehensive programming can positively affect girls’ education and health outcomes. Based on our analyses, ACESWorld developed the Activities, Skills, and Knowledge for Girls program, a unified approach to reproductive health, life skills, and human rights education to empower adolescent girls to lead whole and healthy lives via evidence-based educational programming. We understand that education is crucial if girls develop the adaptive skills necessary to transform social and economic structures, improve health and education outcomes and act as change agents.
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