Umang - Empowering Girls to Amplify their Aspirations

ICRW’s approach to ending child marriage includes empowering girls themselves while also increasing their support network by working with parents, schools, communities, men and boys. In the face of complex social structures and gender norms, the program will attempt to work at multiple levels to remove the barriers that face girls on a daily basis. With the IKEA Foundation’s support, ICRW will set two project objectives in motion: reduce the prevalence of child marriage in some of the most resistant, high prevalence districts in Jharkhand and advocate for policy change in order to ensure efforts to reduce child marriage are supported and sustained from the government down to the community level. ICRW’s program will reach out to women and girls who are highly vulnerable and live in marginalized contexts. Our team will start there and expand our efforts based on the lessons learned and best practices for bringing down the rates of child marriage.