Social Protection and Child Marriage: Evidence, Practice and Opportunities

Описание: We know that social protection can play a critical role in reducing income insecurity and enabling girls and boys to access education, two key pathways for delaying marriage. Yet few programmes deliberately and directly target child marriage in their objectives, activities, or monitoring and evaluation of results. The current evidence base on cash transfers and child marriage is mixed, leading some practitioners to voice concerns about programming at all in this area. This webinar explored:

-- What is the current evidence base on the role of social protection in preventing child marriage, and where are the gaps in knowledge?
-- How can social protection address child marriage, and what programme design characteristics might support better results in this area, particularly for adolescent girls?
-- What can we learn from current child marriage programming and how can we make more effective links between child marriage, child protection, and social protection programming?

Read more about the webinar discussion and access the slide presentation: https://socialprotection.org/social-p...

Speakers:

Nicola Jones, ODI
Nankali Maksud, UNICEF
Rachel Yates, Girls Not Brides

Moderator:

Tia Palermo, University of Buffalo

This was the twenty-fifth webinar of the “Social protection responses to COVID-19” webinar series. The series is a joint effort initiated by the IPC-IG, GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the Australia Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) collaboration with the socialprotection.org platform, and in cooperation with partners from different organisations. Join the online community ''Social protection responses to COVID-19 [Task force]'' to learn more about the initiative and future webinars.

The SPIAC-B Gender Working Group, consisting of representatives from several agencies, including UNICEF, DFID, FAO, IPC-IG, UNICEF Innocenti, UN Women among others, is organising webinars of the larger Social Protection responses to COVID-19 webinar series. You can join the Gender-Responsive Social Protection Online Community if you are interested in learning about the gender impacts of COVID-19.

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