Tag: Child Marriage

This Social Norms Diagnostic Tool is a feminist, participatory research approach designed to help programme teams identify and discuss social norms, perceptions and expectations that shape, constrain or promote gender-based violence (GBV) and intimate partner violence (IPV); child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM); and women and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) within […]

Share-Net Ethiopia have released a policy brief aiming to end child marriage in Ethiopia. The document, published in 2023, contains a background summary of the situation, dynamics, and realities of child marriage, information on policy and legislation on child marriage, information on the drivers of child marriage in Ethiopia and why this exists, changing trends, […]

This knowledge product has been published by the Share-Net Bangladesh Child Marriage in Bangladesh Community of Practise. Bangladesh has the third-highest rate of child marriage in the world, such that every year nearly four million girls are married before the age of 18. There are many factors responsible for this complex social problem to perpetuate […]

ABSTRACT Implementing and evaluating interventions in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries presents unique challenges that are little addressed in the implementation literature. We document the process of developing, implementing, and evaluating the Amenah pilot intervention that aimed to mitigate the drivers of early marriage in a Syrian refugee community in Lebanon. Adolescent girls’ […]

To ensure young people’s voices and perspectives were represented in the research focusing on the significant links between child marriage and the norms and values around the sexuality of girls, youth-led research trajectories were carried out by MTBA’s Learning Project. In these trajectories, young researchers were themselves in charge of choosing the research focus, data collection […]

Although inequitable norms related to gender and sexuality are the primary drivers of child marriage, discussing sexuality within the community is considered taboo in many societies. Practitioners often perceive the taboo of talking about sexuality and conservative norms as a barrier to interventions. This article explores how child marriage interventions can build upon traditional ways of […]

As part of the five-year YES I DO Child Marriage Alliance program in West Lombok, Rutgers Indonesia implemented the Share-Net International Rapid Improvement Model (SHIRIM) on Knowledge Translation from 2017-2019. This guideline is part of Share-Net Netherlands’s Knowledge Collaborative on addressing Child Marriage in Indonesia. This guideline on the local Merarik cultural practice was developed by […]

Share-Net Jordan implemented the Share-Net International Rapid Improvement Model (SHIRIM) from 2017-2019. This national action plan is part of Share-Net Jordan’s Knowledge Collaborative on addressing Child Marriage in Jordan. The action plan to end child marriage was developed to provide a general framework for limiting the marriage of individuals under 18. This included a five-year […]