A journey to strengthen gender-transformative collective action to address child marriage - Lessons learnt from Nigeria and Mozambique
The two webinars cover similar content, adapted to the ongoing gender-transformative journeys of Girls Not Brides Mozambique and the Coalition of Civil Society to End Child Marriage in Nigeria. Choose the webinar that suits your context and interests.
In these two webinars we learned about the gender-transformative journey of the Girls Not Brides National Partnership and coalition in Mozambique and Nigeria.
We shared data to show the acceleration needed to achieve the international and regional commitments to end child marriage and all harmful practices.
We examined the link between gender equality and the end of child marriage, what gender-transformative means for national-level CSO collective advocacy and community-level programmes.
And we listened to the experience of members on a gender-transformative journey to strengthen the skills, knowledge and leadership they need for gender-transformative collective action to accelerate progress to address child marriage and advance gender equality, and some of the changes they are seeing along the way.
Listen to the recording and view the presentations for:
- A data snapshot of child marriage prevalence and gender discrimination in East and Southern and West and Central Africa
- The definition and core elements of a gender-transformative approach
- An overview of the 7-step CSO facilitation guide, a resource developed by and for CSOs to build gender-transformative skills, knowledge and leadership
- Links to key resources to support gender-transformative programme design and organisational practice
Key Takeaways
- Gender-transformative action requires organisations and people who believe in their collective power to catalyse the changes needed to advance gender equality and address child marriage
- The national CSO collectives are making changes to their engagement strategies with boys and men and their approach to girls’ safe space interventions, sharpening the focus on the identification and transformation of discriminatory gender norms and gendered unequal relationships of power
- They are also making better use of their collective voice to advocate for changes and investments needed in national policy and decision making spaces, for example, the review and development of a new national strategy to end child marriage
You can watch the session back and view presentations, notes and resources, downloadable below.
Téléchargements
- Nigeria webinar recording (English)
- Enregistrement du webinaire sur le Nigeria (français)
- West and Central Africa Webinar (English) (PPTX, 4.0MB)
Lessons learnt from Nigeria webinar resources/ ressources pour le webinaire leçons tirées du nigeria/ recursos del seminario web lecciones aprendidas de nigeria /
- Mozambique webinar recording (English)
- Gravação do webinar de Moçambique (Português)
- Lessons learnt from Mozambique webinar presentation (Eng) (PPTX, 2.2MB)
- Apresentacao do webinar de Moçambique (Português) (PPTX, 3.1MB)
Lessons learnt from Mozambique webinar resources/ ressources pour le webinaire leçons tirées du Mozambique/ recursos del seminario web lecciones aprendidas de Mozambique/
- Gender-Transformative Accelerator Tool, UNFPA/UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage (2021)
- Technical Note on Gender-Transformative Approaches (2020) UNFPA/UNICEF and UN Women
- Ending child, early and forced marriage is crucial to gender equality, GNB (2020)
- CRANK research meeting: Evidence on gender-transformative approaches end child marriage, GNB/UNFPA/UNICEF Global Programme (March 2021)
- Tackling the Taboo: sexuality and gender-transformative programmes to end child, early and forced marriage and unions (2019) The Child, Early & Forced Marriage & Unions and Sexuality Working Group
- Enhancing Social Norms Programs: An Invitation to Rethink “Scaling Up” From a Feminist Perspective (2021) CUSP
- Gender-transformative education. Reimagining education for a more just and inclusive world (2021) Plan International https://www.ungei.org/sites/default/files/2021-12/UNICEF%20PLAN%20UNGEI%20TE%20Gender%20Transformative%20Education%20WEB%20COPY%2010Dec21.pdf