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Evidence
Evidence on children's well-being, problem first.
Every finding is tied to a defined problem for children, the intervention that claims to solve it, and its type of design. Open any card to compare the same intervention across countries.
Co-parenting Sinovuyo Caring Families Programme for Parents and Teens, a version of Parenting for Lifelong Health Teen adapted to focus on preventing violence against women and engaging fathers
Population
50 families (parents and teens) in rural Manicaland, Zimbabwe
Key finding
Significant reductions in reported physical intimate partner violence, co-parenting struggles, harsh parenting, parenting stress and teen behaviour problems
Samata, a multi-level, structural and norms-based intervention to keep girls in secondary school and delay marriage
Population
Scheduled-caste/scheduled-tribe girls aged 12-13 in the final year of primary school in 80 village clusters in Vijayapura and Bagalkote districts, Karnataka, India
Key finding
Secondary school non-completion: control 24.9% vs intervention 25.4%, no difference between arms.
A 2014 reform of the Federal Civil Code that set the minimum legal marriage age at 18 with no exceptions
Population
Girls and women exposed and not exposed to the 2014 reform, analysed by municipality in Mexico, with municipalities grouped by prior prevalence of child marriage
Key finding
Adolescent births fell more in municipalities with high prior child marriage prevalence.
A social, health, and economic asset-building program to reduce social isolation and build skills and knowledge, delivered by Basmeh & Zeitooneh in partnership with Population Council
Population
Adolescent girls and young women aged 10–21 in the Shatila and Burj al Barajneh refugee camps, including out-of-school girls aged 10–15 and married girls aged 13–21
An entertainment-education short movie on the costs of child marriage, with a second version adding religious messages encouraging completion of education over child marriage
Population
Adolescent girls and their parents in two provinces in Indonesia
Key finding
The costs-only movie consistently improved scores on the child marriage perception scale.
Child protection system investigation following a maltreatment referral, where referrals above a threshold are automatically "defaulted" into investigation
Population
Children in the U.S. referred to the child protection system
Key finding
Reduction in injuries in the two months after referral for children just above the threshold
