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.
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