Bangladesh

ISSUE: child marriage

CHANGE MODEL

Institutional: The “Best School for Girls” campaign keeps girls in school and out of child marriage. Through partnerships with 289 schools and plans to work with the Ministry of Education, the campaign gives incentives to make schools more girl-friendly.

KEY OBJECTIVES

• Prevent child marriage
• Reduce girls’ school dropout rate

OUTCOMES

In partnership with 289 schools to adopt girl-centric practices, results in the first year were astonishing:

• The marriage rate dropped 20%
• 42% fewer girls dropped out of school
• Of girls who did drop out to marry, 78% returned to school
• 59% of partner schools started a Sexual Violence Prevention committee

PARTNERS

• Agrogoti Sangstha
• BRAC
• CARE Bangladesh
• Dnet
• National Girl Child Advocacy Forum (NGCAF)
• World Vision

• 2,221

  Number of screenings

• 78,998

  People Reached

• 528

  Community facilitators trained