Street theater proves to be a beautiful tool to educate and inform people about the consequences of child marriage. Bedari, local partner in Pakistan of Her Choice alliance member ICDI, organized 62 theatre performances on child marriage in various places in the districts of Chakwal, Lahore and Vehari. The actors received tremendous response from the […]
Her Choice PhD candidate Rashmila Shakya is part of the research team that examines the impact of Her Choice in our ten programme countries. Shakya wants to know how masculinities shape men’s view on practices in early marriage in Nepal and how these masculinities can be reformed to improve the lives of married young people. […]
A national girls’ meeting takes place this weekend in Burkina Faso to promote raising the minimum age of marriage to 18 for girls and boys. According to Unicef, Burkina Faso has the fifth highest prevalence rate of child marriage in the world. 52% of girls in Burkina Faso are married before their 18th birthday and […]
Her Choice PhD candidate Nashia Ajaz is part of the research team that examines the impact of Her Choice in our ten programme countries. Ajaz wants to know how women’s empowerment and gender equality programmes relate to early marriage decision-making within families in Pakistan. Her field location was a village in the province of Punjab. […]
Poverty plays a major role in the continued existence of child marriage. That’s why one of the six strategies Her Choice applies in the field addresses strengthening the economic security of girls and their families: creating and supporting women’s self-help groups with training and access to (financial) resources. Her Choice aims to create child marriage […]
The final presentation of the year to mark the 25th anniversary of Her Choice alliance member ICDI took place this week in Amsterdam. The occasion was a workshop organized under Girls Not Brides/ Share-Net’s last Lecture Series on Child Marriage of the year; Involving Young People in Research. The workshop, Youth Led Research within Her Choice […]
Participants in the kick-off workshop about the Endline Study of Her Choice in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, look back on an inspiring week with a lot of interaction, fun moments and acquired new knowledge. The Endline data collection training lasted the whole week and was given by researchers of AISSR (University of Amsterdam). It is a […]
At the second Annual Provincial Conference on Girls Rights in Pakistan parliamentarians, civil society and academia decided to join forces in the quest to end child marriage. This conference was organized by Bedari, local partner in Pakistan of Her Choice alliance member ICDI, as part of the 16-day campaign focused to end gender based violence. […]
Theater is a form of community awareness that has proven to be very effective in large parts of Africa. Everyone understands the story and heavy themes and problems that everyone in the community recognizes are touched on with speed and lightness and made negotiable. in Gondar, Ethiopia, Her Choice is working on ending child labour […]
In Ethiopia the NGO Wabe Children’s Aid and Training (WCAT), one of Her Choice’s 27 partners in the field, trains teachers of the Mekuabia school to give education on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), to both girls and boys. Agegnehu Acheye (13) is one of them and tells us about her experiences. 13-year […]
