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Who Speaks For Me? Ending Child Marriage
Explores trends in child marriage and the benefits of delaying marriage. Examines promising approaches in developing countries to end child marriage and provides recommendations to advance policy and advocacy efforts.
At what age?.. are school-children employed, married and taken to court? – Trends over time
Details four minimum legal ages defined by national legislation of the States Parties to the CRC – on marriage, criminal responsibility, employment and compulsory education – to analyse relevant interconnections.…
Solutions to end child marriage: What the evidence shows
Summarises a systematic review of child marriage prevention programs that have documented evaluations and offers an analysis of the broader implications for viable solutions to end child marriage.
El matrimonio infantil y las uniones de hecho forzadas en adolescentes en Guatemala
Este estudio presenta una investigación exploratoria del impacto del matrimonio civil y la unión de hecho forzada de niños, niñas y adolescentes en Guatemala.
Matan Kwarai: Insights into early marriage and girls’ education in Northern Nigeria
This report highlights promising insights that some women are able to continue their education after marriage despite marrying at a young age.
Associations between early marriage and young women’s marital and reproductive health outcomes: Evidence from India
The study compares marital, reproductive and other outcomes between young women living in five Indian states who married before 18 and those who married later.
Association between adolescent marriage and marital violence among young adult women in India
The study assesses whether a history of adolescent marriage places young women in India at increased risk of physical or sexual marital violence.
"Drought, drop out and early marriage: Feeling the effects of climate change in East Africa"
Highlights early marriages as a significant issue in drought and famine contexts. Names these marriages “famine marriages”, noting that they lead to girls dropping out of school and make them…
The effect of maternal child marriage on morbidity and mortality of children under 5 in India: Cross sectional study of a nationally representative sample
The study assesses associations between child marriage and the morbidity and mortality of infants and children under 5 in India.
Cash or condition? Evidence from a cash transfer experiment
Evaluates a cash transfer experiment targeted at adolescent girls in Malawi. Finds that a conditional cash program for early adolescents that transitions into an unconditional cash tranfers for older teenagers…
Girl-centered program design: a toolkit to develop, strengthen and expand adolescent girls programs
Developed by Population Council, this toolkit is a set of tools and guidelines for strengthening programmes for adolescent girls in urban Kenya.
It’s all one curriculum: guidelines and activities for a unified approach to sexuality, gender, HIV, and human rights education
This "All one curriculum" is a resource kit for developing a unified curriculum on sexuality, gender, HIV, and human rights.