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Message on Ending Child Marriage: Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA Executive Director
March 25, 2020Statement by Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA Executive Director, on ending child marriage.
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Family Planning and Ending Gender-based Violence, Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage
Resource date: 27 April 2020
Author: UNFPA, with contributions from Avenir Health, Johns Hopkins University (USA) and Victoria University (Australia)
Publisher: UNFPA
UNFPA aims to achieve three world-changing results by 2030, the deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. These are: Ending unmet need for family planning, ending gender-based violence including harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and child marriage, and ending all preventable maternal deaths. COVID-19 pandemic could critically undermine progress made towards achieving these goals.
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Millions more cases of violence, child marriage, female genital mutilation, unintended pregnancy expected due to the COVID-19 pandemic
28 April 20201
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Global Programme Phase II Results Framework
Resource date: 31 December 2019
Author: UNFPA, UNICEF
This document shows the results framework for Phase II of the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage.
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Phase II Programme Document: 2020-2023
Resource date: 30 November 2019
Author: UNFPA, UNICEF
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Costing the Three Transformative Results
The cost of the transformative results UNFPA is committed to achieving by 2030
Number of pages: 36
Publication date: 31 January 2020
Author: Johns Hopkins University, Avenir Health, Victoria University, Institute of Health, Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
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Investing in Knowledge for Ending Child Marriage Publications Catalogue 2018-2019
Resource date: 31 December 2019
Author: UNFPA and UNICEF
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Ending Child Marriage and Rewriting the Future of Adolescent Girls
Resource date: 31 May 2018
Author: UNFPA
Child marriage, defined as a formal marriage or informal union before age 18, is a global issue impacting the lives of millions of girls each year and hindering progress towards development the world over. Globally, more than 700 million girls and women alive today were married as children. More than one in three of these (about 250 million) entered into union before age 15. This report to the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation covers the period of 2015 to 2017.
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Chapter 4: Cost of Ending Child Marriage
Resource date: 31 January 2020
Publisher: UNFPA
This is the fourth chapter of Costing the Three Transformative Results, which focuses on new research to estimate the costs associated the global effort led by UNFPA towards: (a) ending preventable maternal deaths, (b) ending the unmet need for family planning, (c) ending gender-based violence and all harmful practices, including child marriage and female genital mutilation.
This chapter focuses on the estimated cost of ending child marriage. It was compiled by UNFPA partners at Victoria University.