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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. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Child, Early and Forced Marriage in Fragile and Conflict Affected States

    This report examines the scale of child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) in fragile and conflict-affected states. Studies focusing on the displaced Syrian population, the conflict-affected population in Yemen, and displaced groups in several Sub-Saharan

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): K4D, Knowledge, Evidence, and Learning for Development Author(s): Birchall, Jenny

  9. 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 | ...

  10. State of World Population 2020: Against my will- Defying the practices that harm women and girls and undermine equality

    Opening with a powerful Call to Action from UNFPA's Executive Director and United Nations Under-Secretary-General Dr. Natalia Kanem, this report focuses on three harmful practices: femal genital mutilation (FGM), child marriage, and son preference. Year 2

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund

  11. Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings in South Asia: Study results from Bangladesh and Nepal

    There are estimated to be 285 million child brides in South Asia. Child marriages can result in serious violations of human rights as it prevents the child from having a childhood where it can play and be protected. Although the child marriage rates are d

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund | UNICEF, United Nations Children's ...

  12. Guidance for Engaging Traditional Leaders: Child marriage

    Across West and Central Africa (WCA), the prevalence of child marriage is 41%, meaning that four out of ten girls and young women, or nearly 60 million, were married before the age of 18.  It is expected that, as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, child mar

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children International Author(s): Gassama, Maty

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