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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. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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 ...

  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. 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 ...

  10. Ending Child Marriage in West Africa: Enhancing policy implementation and budgeting, Sierra Leone and Niger

    This analysis was created to assess progress on policy implementation and funding for ending child marriage (ECM) in two West African countries, Niger and Sierra Leone following the High-Level Meeting on the Elimination of Child Marriage in 2017. Fieldwor

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children US | Save the Children International

  11. Gender Norms, Child Marriage and Girls' Education in West and Central Africa: Assessing the role of education in the prevention and response to child marriage

    Child marriage is deep rooted in gender discrimination and inequality – and in many contexts is sustained as a result of harmful social norms and the negative consequences of poverty and deprivation. It is further exacerbated by humanitarian crises (such

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children International Author(s): Versluys, Eline

  12. Improving Adolescent Reproductive Health and Nutrition Through Structural Solutions in West Hararghe Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia Abdiboru Project Final

    The objective of the project was to empower girls in rural West Hararghe, Ethiopia, through improved reproductive health, nutrition, and education. Ethiopia is characterized by a high level of early marriage. For many girls, early marriage results in them

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): CARE | Addis Continental Institute of Public Health | ...

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