Press release
03/07/2021
10 million additional girls at risk of child marriage due to COVID-19
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/10-million-additional-girls-risk-child-marriage-due-covid-19
NEW YORK, 8 March 2021, –, Ten million additional child marriages may occur before the end of the decade, threatening years of progress in reducing the practice, according to a new analysis released by UNICEF today. COVID-19: A threat to progress against child marriage – released on International Women’s Day – warns that school closures, economic stress, service disruptions…
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03/05/2021
Battling the Perfect Storm: Adapting Programmes to End Child Marriage to COVID-19 and Beyond
https://www.unicef.org/documents/battling-perfect-storm-adapting-programmes-end-child-marriage-covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is quickly exacerbating key factors that put children at risk of marrying before their 18 th birthday. This learning brief synthesizes evidence to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting child marriage risk factors and how UNICEF, within the UNFPA–UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage, is pivoting to identify…
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02/12/2021
Addressing Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings
https://www.unicef.org/documents/addressing-child-marriage-humanitarian-settings
This technical guide sets out to identify a strategic approach for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners to prevent and respond to child marriage in humanitarian settings in different stages of crises. The guide is laid out in three main sections. It starts by discussing the issue of…
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01/28/2021
Evolution in the evidence base on child marriage (2000-2019)
https://www.unicef.org/documents/evolution-evidence-base-child-marriage-2000-2019
This scoping review of the evidence base on child marriage from 2000-2019 covers 386 articles that a) focus on child or early marriage or informal unions in lower and middle income countries; b) provide new research insights based on a specified methodology; 3) and are published in English in either peer-reviewed or grey literature. The findings…
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12/09/2020
UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage Phase I Country Profiles (2016-2019)
https://www.unicef.org/documents/unfpa-unicef-global-programme-end-child-marriage-phase-i-country-profiles-2016-2019
The UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage has been implemented since 2016 across 12 countries in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. The programme has surpassed most of its output targets, reaching millions of people in the 12 countries with interventions designed to end child marriage, continuously extended its reach to larger…
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11/13/2020
Child marriage and the law
https://www.unicef.org/documents/child-marriage-and-law
This technical note explores laws and their application and enforcement in relation to child marriage. By unpacking the issues, the technical note supports the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage and its partners to gain a better understanding and be able to develop more nuanced approaches to child marriage and the law. Download…
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11/11/2020
Adolescent Girl-Responsive Systems
https://www.unicef.org/documents/adolescent-girl-responsive-systems
This technical note aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and good practices to promote systems that are gender-equitable and responsive to the rights and needs of adolescent girls, and to provide practical guidance on the application of key concepts and effective programming approaches to end child marriage across health, education, child…
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11/04/2020
Ensuring Value for Money
https://www.unicef.org/documents/ensuring-value-money
This technical note aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and good practices to include the most marginalized adolescent girls, their families and communities in programmes and services to end child marriage; and to provide practical guidance on the application of key concepts and effective programming approaches. Download file (PDF, 420,16…
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10/22/2020
Leaving No One Behind
https://www.unicef.org/documents/leaving-no-one-behind
This technical note aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and good practices to include the most marginalized adolescent girls, their families and communities in programmes and services to end child marriage; and provide practical guidance on the application of key concepts and effective programming approaches to leaving no one behind.…
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09/15/2020
Investing in Knowledge for Ending Child Marriage
https://www.unicef.org/documents/investing-knowledge-ending-child-marriage
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