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Ethiopia

Vision, Innovation, and Action to Address Child Marriage

Posted on June 2, 2017

On June 17, 2013 USAID and the IGWG’s Task Force on Gender-Based Violence, its co-chairs PRB and CARE, and the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted “Vision, Innovation, and Action to Address Child Marriage” at the Wilson Center.

Carla Koppell, Chief Strategic Officer at USAID, opened the discussion with an overview of USAID’s work on child marriage from Syria to India, and described strategies to address early marriage like girls’ education and community mobilization.

She was joined by experts, researchers, and people working with young women and married girls in the field in countries like Ethiopia and Egypt. Margaret Greene of Greeneworks concluded the event, remarking on the shifts in addressing child marriage; while once it was seen as just a problem for girls, it is now more often characterized as a development issue and is more likely to be addressed through programs in addition to legislation.

Presentations:

  • Jennifer Redner, “Ending Child Marriage – Key Next Policy Steps” (PDF: 182 KB)
  • Anju Malhotra, “Evidence of What Works to End Child Marriage” (PDF: 1298 KB )
  • Feven Tassew & Jeff Edmeades, “Towards Improved Economic and Sexual/Reproductive  Health Outcomes for Adolescent Girls” (PDF: 982 KB)
  • Patrick Crump, “Delaying Early Marriage in Egypt: The Case of Ishraq” (PDF: 595 KB)
  • Annabel Erulkar, “Alternative Approaches to Delaying Marriage and Supporting Married Girls”(PDF: 798 KB)

Event Materials

  • Agenda (PDF: 220 KB)
  • Speaker Bios (PDF: 396 KB)
  • List of Attendees (PDF: 158 KB)

Additional Resources

  • Archived video of the event
  • Photo gallery
  • Blog post: Global Gender Current

Child, Early and Forced Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence

Posted on May 28, 2017

This Gender-Based Violence Task Force event on March 6, 2017 explored the connections between child marriage and intimate partner violence (IPV). Presenters included researchers and development experts from ICRW, Population Council, and Stony Brook University. The event opened with Rachel Kidman of Stony Brook University, who used open source DHS data to analyze the relationship between child marriage and IPV. Her findings showed that globally, the data show a strong correlation between the two, and that national marriage laws do not seem to reduce the child marriage prevalence. Sanyukta Mathur from the PopCouncil shared results from the DREAMS initiative in Kenya, which surveyed young Kenyan women and their experience with IPV. Jeff Edmeades of ICRW, the final presenter, highlighted findings from the TESFA program in Ethiopia, which showed that young brides are more vulnerable to violence. The event ended with a Q&A session with all three panelists, moderated by Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs of PRB.

Event Presentations and Materials

  • Using Global Data to Examine Child Marriage, IPV and Legal Protection – Rachel Kidman, Stony Brook University
  • Experience of Violence and Association with HIV Risk Amoung Young Kenyan Women in the Context of the DREAMS Initiative – Sanyukta Mathur, PopCouncil
  • Child Marriage, Couple Communication and IPV: Insights from the TESFA Project – Jeffrey Edmeades, ICRW
  • Event Notes
  • Video Recording
  • Photos

Resources and Projects Referenced in Presentations

  • Journal Article: Child marriage and intimate partner violence: a comparative study of 34 countries – Rachel Kidman
  • Reducing HIV Risk among Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Implementation Science around the DREAMS Initiative – PopCouncil
  • TEFSA Supporting Married, Widowed, and Divorced Adolescents – CARE

Additional Materials

  • Improving the Lives of Married Adolescent Girls in Amhara, Ethiopia: A Summary of the Evidence – This brief summarizes the main findings from the TEFSA evaluation
  • Worth the effort? Combining sexual and reproductive health and economic empowerment programming for married adolescent girls in Amhara, Ethiopia – This is the publication that Jeffrey mentioned at the end of his presentation
  • Out of the Shadows: Child Marriage in Ethiopia – Series of stories developed around the issues covered by the TESFA project

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