Ahead of the 2018 Global Partnership for Education Financing Conference, Girls Not Brides developed a brief explaining why governments must address child marriage to achieve quality education for girls.
In this brief, we recommend four actions governments can take to address child marriage:
- Develop and implement gender-responsive education plans which target and prioritise girls at-risk of child marriage and married girls.
- Invest technical and financial resources in strategies which prevent child marriage and support married girls.
- Track progress on the SDGs: monitor and publish married and unmarried girls’ access to, and engagement in, education on a national level. This will highlight progress as well as areas for improvement.
- Encourage, lead and champion cross-government strategies to end child marriage