Despite the lockdown in Nepal, local partner CWIN successfully stopped two child marriages. A 14-year-old girl from Gadi Rular and a 17-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old girl and a 19-year-old boy were prevented from marrying. CWIN, local partner of Her Choice alliance member ICDI, is responsible for running a national Child Helpline. Two cases of […]
Her Choice is one of three Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) alliances working in partnership with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the field of child marriage. Her Choice aims to build child marriage-free communities, and also aims to reduce incidence of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). FGM/C prevalence and laws against FGM […]
To protect the girls and their families in the rural Her Choice communities in Ethiopia, local partner ESD is preparing a COVID-19 response plan in collaboration with Her Choice alliance member ICDI. The Ethiopian NGO is informing people about the risks posed by COVID-19 and informs them about how to protect themselves and their families […]
For her Master International Development Studies Her Choice Master student Samy Verhaaren wanted to know more about the mental well-being and well-being enhancement among young married and single mothers in Ghana. We asked Verhaaren six questions about her research. Part five of a series of interviews with Her Choice researchers. You found that community norms […]
CWIN, a pioneer child rights NGO in Nepal and partner of Her Choice alliance member ICDI, has taken different measures to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. CWIN has developed leaflets with information about the proper way to wash hands and distributed these in the Her Choice communities, especially among children. Further more, CWIN has developed […]
One of the six strategies Her Choice applies in the field addresses Strategy VI: creating an enabling legal and policy environment on preventing child marriage. We do this by supporting community leaders to develop local bylaws and (local) authorities to enforce national policies on preventing child marriage, and by advocating with national authorities for 18 […]
The circumstances we find ourselves in at the moment, have a major impact on the lives of the girls and their families we work for. Far-reaching measures have been taken in the ten Her Choice countries to prevent the spread of the virus. Schools are closed almost everywhere and meetings and travel are forbidden. Research […]
The recent outbreak of COVID-19 affected Pakistan as well as the whole world. For three weeks now, the country is in lockdown and the number of affected and reported cases is increasing every day. Her Choice partner Bedari, local partner of Her Choice alliance member ICDI, is working hard in communities to inform people how […]
Various measures considering the health risks of its beneficiaries and staff were taken by Dalit, local partner in Bangladesh of Her Choice alliance member ICDI. Since the news of the COVID19-infection in Bangladesh in the first week of March, Dalit started awareness raising activities and the distribution of face masks. Dalit is working to improve […]
The research partner of the Her Choice programme, the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), sent a letter to Minister Sigrid Kaag of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The AISSR did this on behalf of a broad group of ‘international development colleagues’ from other Dutch universities. In the […]
