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More Power to Her: How Empowering Girls Can Help End Child Marriage

WHAT:

As the international community works to prevent child marriage, including by prioritizing the issue in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is hosting a panel discussion on Sept. 12 in Washington, D.C. to launch a new report that highlights four effective interventions working towards ending the harmful practice – which turns 14 million girls worldwide into brides every year. CARE, BRAC USA, Save the Children and Pathfinder International will join ICRW in exploring how successful programs in Bangladesh, Egypt, Ethiopia and India are putting girls’ empowerment at the center of global efforts to prevent child marriage and mitigate its harmful effects when it does occur.

WHO:

  • Doris Bartel, Senior Director of Gender and Empowerment, CARE
  • Stacey Clark, Program Manager and CFO, BRAC USA
  • Patrick Crump, Associate Vice President of Program Quality and Impact, Save the Children
  • Mathew Joseph, Country Representative – India, Pathfinder International
  • Sarah Degnan Kambou, ICRW President
  • Tamara Kreinin, Director of the Population and Reproductive Health Program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  • Ann Warner, ICRW Senior Gender and Youth Specialist

WHERE:

1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

WHEN:

Friday, September 12, 2014, 9:30 – 11:30AM

About ICRW:

For nearly 40 years, ICRW has been the premier applied research institute focused on women and girls. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with regional offices in South Asia and Africa, ICRW provides evidence-based research to inform programs and policies that help alleviate poverty, promote gender equality and protect the rights of women and girls. Learn more at www.icrw.org

About CARE:

Founded in 1945 with the creation of the CARE Package, CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE places special focus on working alongside poor girls and women because, equipped with the proper resources, they have the power to lift whole families and entire communities out of poverty. Last year CARE worked in 87 countries and reached 82 million people around the world. To learn more, visit www.care.org.

About BRAC USA:

BRAC is a development success story, spreading solutions born in Bangladesh around the world – a global leader in creating opportunity for the world’s poor. What started out as a limited relief operation in 1972 in a remote village of Bangladesh has turned into the largest development organisation in the world. Organising the poor using communities’ own human and material resources, BRAC (formerly Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) catalyses lasting change, creating an ecosystem in which the poor have the chance to seize control of their own lives.

About Save the Children:

Save the Children gives children in the United States and around the world a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We invest in childhood – every day, in times of crisis and for our future. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

About Pathfinder International:

Pathfinder International is a global nonprofit dedicated to ensuring people everywhere have the right and opportunity to live a healthy sexual and reproductive life. For more than 55 years, Pathfinder has placed reproductive health at the center—believing that health care is not only a fundamental human right but is critical for expanding opportunities for women, families, communities, and nations, while paving the way for transformations in development. By partnering with communities and introducing innovative approaches, Pathfinder strengthens the capacity of local providers and systems, establishes integrated programs, and finds solutions to improve health on a national scale. Learn more at www.pathfinder.org.

Resources

Tackling the Taboo (English)

Tackling the Taboo highlights gender-transformative programs from organizations working at the intersection of child marriage and...

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Child, Early, and Forced Marriage: CARE’s Global Experience (Arabic)

Each year, 12 million girls are married before the age of 18, marking the start of their lives as wives and mothers well before they are...

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Child, Early, and Forced Marriage: CARE’s Global Experience (French)

Each year, 12 million girls are married before the age of 18, marking the start of their lives as wives and mothers well before they are...

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Child, Early, and Forced Marriage: CARE’s Global Experience (Spanish)

Each year, 12 million girls are married before the age of 18, marking the start of their lives as wives and mothers well before they are...

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More Power to Her: How Empowering Girls Can Help End Child Marriage

WHAT:As the international community works to prevent child marriage, including by prioritizing the issue in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is hosting a panel discussion on Sept. 12 in Washington, D.C. to launch a new report that highlights four effective interventions working towards ending the harmful practice –

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More Power to Her: How Empowering Girls Can Help End Child Marriage

WHAT:As the international community works to prevent child marriage, including by prioritizing the issue in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is hosting a panel discussion on Sept. 12 in Washington, D.C. to launch a new report that highlights four effective interventions working towards ending the harmful practice –

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Tipping Point Community Participatory Analysis

Findings from CARE’s Tipping Point Project Community Participatory Analysis Study, which was designed to deepen understanding of the contextual factors and root causes driving the prevalence of child marriage in particular regions of Nepal and Bangladesh, countries with some of the highest rates of child marriage in the world.

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Child, Early and Forced Marriage and the Control of Sexuality and Reproduction

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Addressing Child Marriage in Nepal through Behavior Change Communication and Social Mobilization

The goal of the Chunauti (which means “challenge” in Nepali) project, which was supported by USAID and implemented by CARE, was to...

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TESFA: Improving The Live of Adolescent Girls in Ethiopia

This 16 page evaluation showcases the final results of the groundbreaking program designed and implemented by CARE Ethiopia and and evaluated by the International Center for Research on Women. The program, named Towards Economic and Sexual Reproductive Health Outcomes for Adolescent Girls, or TESFA, impacted the lives of 5,000 child brides.

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Guidance for GBV Monitoring and Mitigation in Non-GBV Sectoral Programming

This document aims to address the increasing demand for clear guidance on how to practically and ethically monitor and mitigate gender-based violence (GBV) within non-emergency, international development programming, in which GBV is not a specific programmatic component. Specifically, it draws on existing GBV-related guidance, as well as input from a group of experts, to provide recommendations for preventing and/or responding to unintentional risk, threat, or violence against individuals related to programmatic interventions. These recommendations describe ways to take stock of the programmatic environment with regard to GBV in general, as well as targeted suggestions on how to track GBV-related incidents and issues throughout the program cycle.

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Tipping Point Program Summary

4 page brief that describes CARE's child marriage prevention programming in Bangladesh and Nepal, including our focus on underlying...

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CI position on Child Marriage for the Girl Summit

CARE's policy recommendations to global governments and civil society organizations on how to end child marriage, prepared for the 2014...

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Child Marriage Brief

CHILD MARRIAGE: Complicated Problem, Simple Solution Value Girls.

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TESFA Photovoice

Married adolescents who were in TESFA took photos to show us what changed in their lives.  Take a look and see this program through...

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TESFA Brief

TESFA is a 3 year project funded by the Nike Foundation that works to improve economic, and sexual and reproductive health outcomes for...

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Child Marriage Factsheet 2014

Digging Up the Roots to Replant the Future. This one page fact sheet shows key statistics about child marriage globally, and in...

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Tipping Point Year One

The Tipping Point initiative is addressing child marriage through a dynamic process of innovation, insight (analysis and learning), and...

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Girl Declaration

CARE is a signatory to Girl Declaration and helped with its development.

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A CARE Program to End Child Marriage

Poverty is one of the reasons families give their daughters to be married at an early age. I was almost one of those child brides.

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Child Marriage: A Promise of Poverty

Not every marriage lasts forever, but early marriage has lifelong consequences for girls.

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“Maybe Someday, But Not Today”

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Ending Child Marriage in Ethiopia

This 2 page brief from 2008 describes CARE Ethiopia's Healthy Unions Program.

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Child Marriage: Questions and Answers

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Child Marriage: A Promise of Poverty

Not every marriage lasts forever, but early marriage has lifelong consequences for girls.

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