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Addressing child marriage requires a gender-transformative approach to programming and policy-making. This means implementing programmes that operate within communities to rebalance power by transforming social norms, redistributing resources, enabling access to quality basic services and building agency for those facing gender-based discrimination. Such community-level and women-led efforts, if supported by multi-sectoral, evidence-informed and well-resourced legal and policy responses, can help to achieve the transformational social change required to address child marriage. This guidance note explores the strategies adopted by women-led organizations in South Asia to combat child marriage, it investigates their resource base and identifies promising practices in the elimination of child marriage amidst a shrinking civic space across the region.
Jointly developed by UNICEF ROSA and Girls Not Brides, this publication highlights the value of partnering with women-led organizations beyond standalone projects towards holistic, multi-sectoral alliances, including with non-governmental and civil society organizations, UN agencies, governments, donors and academia, grounded in shared feminist principles working to eliminate child marriage in South Asia.