Grand
Challenges Canada (GCC) is dedicated to supporting Bold Ideas with Big Impact.
Funded by the Government of Canada and other partners, Grand Challenges Canada
funds innovators in low- and middle-income countries and Canada.
The
agreement between GCC and MOMODa FOUNDATION was signed in September 2019. Principal investigators of the
project are Dr. Zaki Wahhaj (University of Kent, UK), and Dr. Abu S. Shonchoy
(Asst. Professor, Florida International University, USA). The duration of the
project is from October 2019 to September
2020.
The project
is divided into four groups: three treatment groups and one control group. Each
group consists of 60 communities. In treatment group-1, the research team investigates whether unmarried adolescent girls have a birth registration card. If they don’t have,
the research team will help them to get registered.
In treatment
group-2, the research team works to raise
awareness of a national helpline (333) for reporting child marriage cases among
the guardians in the treatment communities. In treatment group-3, both of the
aforementioned interventions are given.
The project
aims at
- increasing the birth registration of unmarried adolescent girls in the treatment
communities by 50 percentage points.
- increasing
awareness by 75% of the helpline for reporting child marriage cases among the
guardians of the treatment communities.
- lowering
child marriage (marriage below the age of
18) at the end line by 30% in the treatment communities as compared to the
control communities
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