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    African Women and Girls – Their say on their world post-2015

    Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2014
    The Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD), has released a landmark publication that details the voices of African women and girls in the post Millennium Development Goals discussion. African women and girls at the Grassroots – their say on their world post 2015 is a representation of African women’s voices from the grassroots.
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    Theory of Change on Child Marriage

    2014
    Girls Not Brides has developed a ‘Theory of Change on Child Marriage’, a visual diagram that demonstrates the range of approaches needed to address child marriage and how they intersect. Informed by the insights of Girls Not Brides members and other experts on child marriage, the Theory of Change articulates what an effective response to child marriage entails.
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    The impact of girls’ education on early marriage

    Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2011
    What impact does the education of girls have on early marriage? This report by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) Human Development Resource Centre (HDRC) provides an overview of the existing evidence on the impact of girls' education on early marriage, highlighting key resources and knowledge gaps. The following are among the key findings:
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    Child Marriage in South Asia

    Center for Food Safety, 2013
    Child marriage is a human rights crisis occurring on an alarming scale in South Asia. South Asia accounts for almost half of all child marriages that occur globally. Child marriage does not constitute a single rights violation; rather, every instance of it triggers a continuum of violations that continues throughout a girl’s life.
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    The challenges of climate change: children on the front line

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2014
    UNICEF ebook on the challenges of climate change facing children around the world.
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    Meet the Arewa girl

    2014
    Data often tells you what is happening to girls, but it rarely presents the context – the why and how – and what girls themselves are thinking.
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    Gender issues in basic education and national development in Nigeria

    2013
    This paper examines factors inhibiting gender equality in the Nigerian education sector, focusing on access to education as well as the learning process. Over the years, education in Nigeria has been primarily oriented toward closing the enrolment gap between girls and boys, while insufficient attention has been paid to retention and achievement.
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    Socio-Economic Development and the Girl-Child Education: a Look at Jos North Local Government, Plateau State

    2014
    The problem of girl child education in Nigeria’s Jos North Local Government Area has socio-economic aspects related to traditional gender roles. The research presented in this article examines girl child education and its impacts, with the view of finding out why few women are educated in Jos North metropolis.
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    Maimuna’s story, Nigeria

    2013
    In this article, Girl Child Concerns, an arm of the organisation, Girls Not Brides, shares this heart-warming testimonial of a young Nigerian girl, Maimuna.
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    Protecting the girl child: using the law to end child, early and forced marriage and related human rights violations

    Equality Now, 2014
    “What if instead of being treated as someone’s property to be betrothed, raped, abused, sold, with no power over her destiny, a girl is healthy, safe, educated, and empowered?”

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