From Risk to Response: Assessing the integration of child marriage prevention and support for married girls in humanitarian response plans (2024-2026)
Analysis and Practical Recommendations
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This brief assesses how child marriage is addressed within humanitarian needs overviews (HNO) and humanitarian response planning (HRPs) spans across a three-year period (2024-2026). Specifically, it examines how child marriage is reflected within HNOs and HRPs; whether girls at risk of child marriage
and already-married girls are identified within humanitarian analyses; how and if child marriage is framed as a humanitarian concern; and the extent to which response strategies include interventions that directly or indirectly contribute to its prevention and response.
By reviewing the visibility and prioritization of child marriage within humanitarian planning frameworks, the review seeks to identify gaps, highlight promising practices among reviewed countries, and provide recommendations to strengthen crisis-responsive and gender-transformative approaches that better protect adolescent girls at risk of, or survivors of, child marriage in humanitarian settings.
Published on 3 November 2026.
