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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Gender Justice: a model of legal-political innovation for the prevention of human rights violations and GBV focused on CEFMU and related contemporary forms of slavery against girls and women in Latin America.
Gender Justice: A Model of Legal-Political Innovation for the Prevention of Human Rights Violations and Gender-based on Child, Early and Forced Marriages and Unions (CEFMU) & Related Contemporary Forms of…
Marriage of underage girls in Morocco: A typological study of adult husbands
Marriage of underage girls persists in Morocco. While article 19 of the Family Code states that girls become marriageable at the age of 18, article 20 of the Code allows…
Understanding the mechanisms influencing the maternal and infant health outcomes from early marriage in the Madhesh Province of Nepal
This is a mixed-methods exploration of the associations between early marriage and maternal and infant health outcomes. Early marriage is intimately connected with cultural and gender norms which simultaneously drive…
An Assessment of District Court Decisions on Child Marriage: Exploring Agency, Consent and Justice
Objectives Child marriage is recognised as a harmful traditional practice and a violation of the human rights of children. The law in Nepal has thus criminalised it. Yet, the implementation…
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 and sexual and reproductive health and rights
Objectives This brief set out to: (1) synthesise the latest global evidence (2013-2024) on how child marriage shapes and is shaped by SRHR outcomes; (2) document progress and setbacks since…
Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean on the Impact of Laws on CEFMU
Objectives This report serves as an introduction to the impact of CEFMU laws, sexual consent laws and the human rights and agency of girls, adolescents and young women in the…
Context analyses on child marriage in crises and forced displacement settings
Guidance and practical tools to help plan, collect and analyse data about child marriage together with adolescent girls and their communities. Part of a collaboration between Plan International and UNHCR…
Child marriage case management for refugees: Improving case management services for married girls and girls at-risk of child marriage in crisis and displacement settings
Adolescent girls are disproportionally affected by the practice of child marriage and the consequences of marrying early, and yet their needs are rarely adequately met or prioritised in response actions.…
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