Preventing and Responding to Child Marriage and Early Unions Project
- A Advocacy Campaign/Project
A Active
Key Information
Preventing and Responding to Child Marriage and Early Unions Project is an advocacy project focused on early marriage in Nepal.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
South Asia
Nepal
Activity URL
Not applicable or unknown
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2019 - 2024
Partner(s)
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
COVID-19 Response
AdaptedGeographic Scope
Sub-nationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Other skills
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
Quality
- School violence
Cross-cutting areas
Not applicable or unknown
Program participants
Other populations reached
- Fathers
- Mothers
- Other family members
Participants include
- Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
- Indigenous
- Other
- People with disabilities
Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
- Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
- Community mobilization
- General awareness-raising/community engagement
- Mothers' clubs
Curriculum/learning
- Increased availability of learning materials
Life skills education
- Gender, rights and power
- Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
Menstrual hygiene management
- Educating girls about menstruation
- Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)
- Sanitary product distribution
Other
- Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)
- Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
- Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
- Sports programs
Policy/legal environment
- Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
- Raising awareness about existing laws/policies
Reducing economic barriers
- Scholarships/stipends for school fees
Social/gender norms change
- Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
- Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
- Media campaigns
Women's empowerment programs
- Advocacy/action
- Leadership training
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
- Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
- Increased secondary school enrolment
Cross-cutting goals
- Changed social norms
- Improved sexual and reproductive health
- Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
- Increased advocacy/civic engagement
- Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
- Increased knowledge of rights
- More equitable gender attitudes and norms
- Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Reduced child marriage
- Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
- Reduced violence against children in the home
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
- Priyanka Kumari Kushwaha
- SHAKHI: Friends of Women
- Executive Director
- shakhibara@gmail.com