Delivering interventions to address child marriage in humanitarian settings in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon
Barriers and facilitators to programming
Highlights
Programming to prevent and respond to child marriage in humanitarian settings is vital to the health, safety and wellbeing of women and girls, but little documentation or evaluation of programmes and best practices exists to guide implementation.
UNICEF Innocenti undertook a study in five countries in the Middle East, speaking with more than 60 practitioners and policymakers to understand the challenges faced in designing and implementing child-marriage focused programming in complex and diverse humanitarian settings as well as the facilitators that enable effective programming.
Putting girls at the heart of programming and designing programmes to address the immediate and long-term needs of girls in a humanitarian crisis or protracted refugee setting requires targeted efforts to improve monitoring, evaluation, and accountability while acknowledging the complexity of these situations and the varying cultural, normative and logistical factors that deter and facilitate implementation.
