![]() ![]() Participants discussed existing evidence, research gaps and potential priorities in relation to five key areas (i) prevalence and trends of child marriage (ii) causes of child marriage (iii) consequences of child marriage (iv) efforts to prevent child marriage (v) efforts to support married girls. Meeting participants included leading researchers and academics, international and national non-government organizations, development agencies, private foundations and United Nations agencies. To address these gaps in knowledge and to identify research priorities on ending child marriage and supporting married girls, WHO organized an expert group meeting in December 2013 in collaboration with Girls Not Brides and UNICEF. While there has been growing recognition of the scale and impact of child marriage and increasing investment to address it the past few years, knowledge gaps remain, particularly around effective approaches to addressing child marriage at scale. Yet global rates of child marriage remain alarmingly high and require strengthened policy and programmatic efforts informed by strong evidence of what works. Progress in reducing rates of child marriage is being made in a number of countries, particularly among younger adolescents. Child marriage is both a grave violation of human rights and a stumbling block to achieving development goals related to gender, health and education. More than 700 million women alive today were married before their 18th birthday. ![]()
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