PUBLICATIONS
January 1, 2017
UNICEF and the Government of Canada: Accelerating the Movement to End Child, Early and Forced Marriage – Final Donor Report
Gender-Based Violence + Violence Against Children
UNICEF and the Government of Canada: Accelerating the Movement to End Child, Early and Forced Marriage - Final Donor Report
DATE
January 1, 2017
AUTHORS
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, Government of Canada
YEARS
2017
POLICIES
Gender-Based Violence + Violence Against Children
UNICEF and the Government of Canada: Accelerating the Movement to End Child, Early and Forced Marriage - Final Donor Report
UNICEFs aim in addressing child marriage is closely linked to promoting gender equality and fits within its Strategic Plan generally and Gender Action Plan more specifically. In working towards a more equitable world, UNICEF has adopted a rights-based approach to programming. This focus is evident in programming around sexual health and reproductive rights, but also important with regard to promoting good governance to support those rights-based approaches in a way that is sustainable, focusing on normative change in behaviour, attitudes and governance, particularly those pertaining to gender. UNICEFs programming aims to use existing infrastructure, build the capacity of regional partners, increase government commitments, and target whole communities for attitudinal change to sustainably alter the intergenerational transmission of child marriage behaviours. Against this background, UNICEF gratefully received a threeyear contribution from the Government of Canada to work in six countries (Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Yemen and Zambia) with policy, communities and evidence generation around ending child marriage. This report summarizes the headline results and programmatic activities covering the activities undertaken by UNICEF in 20142017.
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