With this project we aim to understand the intersections of gender inequities and child marriage, and to identify opportunities to integrate community engagement and gender empowerment interventions that support normative and behavioral change. This work builds on existing evidence and UNFPA and UNICEF programming experience across Africa and South Asia and will provide a road map for countries to identify key interventions to be considered when setting up or strengthening dedicated programs to address the drivers of child marriage. This work is in collaboration with UNICEF’s Communication for Development (C4D) office, with a collaborative goal to generate and share knowledge that supports child marriage prevention program efforts, and to inform policy development that strives to reduce child marriage.

Manuscripts:

1. Associations between village-level norms on marital age and marital choice outcomes among adolescent wives in rural Niger

2. Effects of Parent-Child Relationships on Child Marriage of Girls in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam: Evidence From a Prospective Cohort

3. Beyond the statistic: exploring the process of early marriage decision-making using qualitative findings from Ethiopia and India

Briefs:

1. Early Marriage Decision- Making: Pathways of Prevention
2. The role of parent-child communication in delaying child and early marriage of girls
3. The Role of Social Norms in Early Marriage in Niger: A Look at Adolescent Wives and their Communities

Africa

South Asia

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