
Child marriage
Globally 12 million girls under 18 years of age enter formal or informal marriages every year. Child marriage increases girls’ risk of early and dangerous pregnancies, limits their formal and informal educational opportunities and increases their risk of poverty.
Gendered social norms interact both with other norms and with underlying factors such as poverty and limited education and economic opportunities in different contexts to increase the likelihood of child marriage.
ALIGN resources explore insights from recent research on child marriage, effective approaches to changing norms around child marriage, and ways of measuring change.
Think piece
25 April 2019

Published by: ALIGN
Toolkit
15 April 2019

Published by: ALIGN
Diagram/Infographic
14 September 2018

Published by: ALIGN
Case study
9 October 2018

Published by: ALIGN
Case study
7 November 2018

Published by: ALIGN
Case study
29 November 2018

Published by: ALIGN, Care
Child marriage content from the ALIGN community
Briefing paper
31 January 2022

Published by: Girls Not Brides
Briefing paper
1 August 2021

Published by: Girls Not Brides, End Child Marriage
Briefing paper
29 June 2020

Published by: Tipping Point, Care
Report
1 May 2020

Published by: Passages, USAID
Toolkit
4 February 2020

Published by: Care, Tipping Point
Toolkit
4 February 2020

Published by: Care, Tipping Point