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About the course

Welcome to ‘Gender-Transformative Approaches to Ending Child Marriage’, a course in the 'Adolescent Girls' Agency, Safety and Wellbeing' learning path. 


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Globally each year, an estimated 12 million girls – one in five – are married before the age of 18. While marriage is normally a happy occasion to mark the union of two people, for millions of girls, marriage is anything but a reason for celebration. 


Child marriage is a human rights violation that denies girls their childhood. 

It is both a symptom and a result of deep-seated gender inequalities and restrictive gender norms. Addressing child marriage therefore necessitates a gender-transformative approach, tackling harmful gender roles, norms and power relations. 



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This course is available thanks to the partnership of UNICEF and UNFPA. 

Learning objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Understand gender-transformative programming in the context of ending child marriage 
  2. Develop and apply practical gender-transformative strategies to end child marriage  

Audience

This module is applicable to all UN staff and partners and was specifically designed for staff, consultants, and partners working on the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage.


Length

This course is approximately 45 minutes in length. 


Methodology

This course will illustrate the application of gender-transformative approaches to ending child marriage through case study examples. It is presented as a set of 'micro-learning' modules. Modules feature a mix of interactive lessons and learning activities, readings, videos, resources and more.  


Modules in this course include:


1. Test your gender-transformation knowledge

2. Child marriage: Context

3. Gender-transformative approaches are key

4. Child marriage in crisis context

5. Gender-transformative approaches in action

6. Redefining masculinities

7. Learning assessment

8. Course evaluation


This course includes a final quiz. Score 80 per cent on the final quiz to pass this course. 


Completion status: When you have completed each section of the course, make sure to click the radio button to indicate completion. A green checkmark indicates the item is complete. 

 

 How to mark a lesson complete.pdf


Structure


This course is part of the wider learning path, Adolescent Girls' Agency, Safety, and Wellbeing Playlist.  You will have to complete the first two courses of this learning path – ‘Foundations of Gender-Transformative Approaches’ and ‘Gender-Transformative Approaches to Programming for Adolescent Girls’ – before continuing in this sub-course. When you enrol in the playlist, you are enroled into all of its courses.

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Contact details

Rosanne Wong, Gender Equality, rwong@unicef.org