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Child marriage is a global problem that affect millions of children, mostly girls, across the world. Child marriage has numerous adverse effects on the overall well-being of children who are mentally, psychologically, emotionally and physical unfit for married life. It constitutes a violation of child rights and must be abolished. It deprives those involved of education and health services, the chance to learn skills and to develop their personalities.

Since girls are more likely to marry young than boys, and illiterate girls are significantly more at risk of child marriage; Save the Children works with gender transformative programmes that are focused to enroll and retain girls in schools.

Ending child marriage requires the joint effort of all organisations from community level to national and global level. Save the Children works in networks and in collaboration with different stakeholders and sees child marriage as a crosscutting issue that should be mainstreamed into all development work. A reduction in child marriage, FGM and sexual violence will reduce the levels of maternal and infant mortality due to under-age pregnancies and unsafe pregnancies and delivery.

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  1. Save the Children Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners

    The Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners (PFA) was developed by Save the Children Denmark for the Child Protection Initiative, to facilitate training in psychological first aid with a focus on children. It is aimed at developing

    Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Save the Children Denmark Author(s): Dybdal, Anne-Sophie | Melin, Mie | Terlonge, Pernille

  2. Married by Exception: Child marriage policies in the Middle East and North Africa

    Legal and policy measures that prevent and prohibit child marriage are a key approach  to protecting girls from being married before they are ready. To better understand how child marriage laws protect girls affected by crisis in the Middle East and North

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Save the Children International Author(s): Mason, Claire

  3. Étude sur l'Impact de la COVID-19 sur le Mariage des Enfants au Sénégal

    Cette étude commissionnée en 2021 par la Coalition Nationale pour l’Abandon du Mariage des Enfants au Sénégal (CONAME) a pour objectif d’identifier, de la manière la plus exhaustive possible, les impacts de la COVID-19 sur le mariage forcé précoce au Séné

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): CONAME, Coalition Nationale pour l'Abandon du Mariage des Enfants au Sénégal | ...

  4. State of the Nigerian Girl: An incisive diagnosis of child marriage in Nigeria

    This report confirms our previous analysis that child marriage is both a cause and result of poor education of girls in Nigeria, with 10+ million out-of-school children in the country, of which over 60% are girls. If a girl is out of school, the likelihoo

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Save the Children International | Save the Children Nigeria

  5. Spotlight Series: Ending child marriage for gender equality

    Gender-based violence against girls: Ending child marriage and accelerating progress for gender equality Save the Children’s Spotlight series is a collection of country briefings to support national-level advocacy through the latest data and analysis of p

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Save the Children International Author(s): Orlassino, Chiara | Flynn, Caitlin | Szabo, Gabrielle

  6. Child Marriage in the context of COVID-19: Analysis of trends, programming and alternative approaches in the Middle East and North Africa

    Documented good practices, programmatic interventions and alternative approaches that has been implemented in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child marriage in the Middle East and North Africa region is presented in this study. Furtherm

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund | UNICEF, United Nations Children's ...

  7. COVID-19 and Child Marriage: How COVID-19’s impact on hunger and education is forcing children into marriage

    The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic such is increasing poverty levels, hunger and decreased access to education is exacerbating girls risks of becoming child brides. This report presents data to better understand the conditions which enable child ma

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): World Vision International Author(s): Shaw, Kate

  8. Progress Toward Ending Child Marriage Over the Last Decade: A missed opportunity to deliver for the world's most marginalised girls

    Compared to the previous generation, the incidence of child marriage worldwide has declined. However, strides forward have suffered from substantial limitations. At the global level, child marriage is still too widespread, and progress too slow, to meet t

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Save the Children International | Save the Children UK

  9. Understanding the Relationship Between Child Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation: A statistical overview of their co-occurrence and risk factors

    The well-being of millions of girls around the world is threatened by child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM). Both child marriage and FGM have existed for generations due to gender inequality. In many countries where both practices are common,

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund

  10. Child Marriage in Humanitarian Crises: Girls and parents speak out on risk and protective factors, decision-making, and solutions

    Child Marriage is a well-recognized global phenomenon, which may disproportionately im­pact girls in humanitarian crisis and displacement, such as armed conflict or nature disaster.1 The con­sequences of such marriages are dire. We know that girls who are

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Save the Children | Plan International UK | ... Author(s): Freccero, Julie | Taylor, Audrey

  11. Save the Children Commitments to Generation Equality: Ending child marriage and ensuring accountability to girls

    More than 25 years since the Beijing Declaration first recognized the girl child as vital to the attainment of equality, sustainable development, and peace, girls worldwide, in all their diversity, continue to face rights abuses that stand in the way of a

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Save the Children

  12. A practitioner’s Guide to the Ethical Conduct of Research on Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings

    This guide offers a framework for decision-making regarding whether and how to conduct research on child marriage in humanitarian settings.

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund | UNICEF, United Nations Children's ...

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