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** Tanzania’s Supreme Court declares child marriage unconstitutional
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In a landmark ruling, Tanzania’s Supreme Court of Appeal has upheld a 2016 ruling banning parents from marrying off girls as young as 14. Read more: Girls Not Brides' website. ([link removed])
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New brief: child marriage and violence against children
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Did you know child brides are more likely to suffer from intimate partner violence, including sexual, physical, psychological and emotional violence? Learn more about child marriage and violence against children in our new brief ([link removed]) .
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Stop stealing her childhood: we take our campaign to SDG summit
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Over the past three months, Girls Not Brides members from all over the world have come together through our #StopStealingHerChildhood campaign. From Nepal to DRC, Girls Not Brides members called on their leaders to take action to end child marriage. Read more: Girls Not Brides' website. ([link removed])
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Share your everyday activism this #16days
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Small actions can add up to create huge change. This 16 days of activism we want to celebrate you and your everyday actions to end child marriage and gender inequality in your family, community or country!
Send us your story ([link removed]) , and a high quality photo to have a chance of featuring on our social media and website. Please apply ([link removed]) by 21 November.
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New resources from Population Council
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Designing a 'girl-centred' initiative? Girls Not Brides member Population Council has launched new tools to help you better understand girls and women's needs, and design programmes that meet them.
“Building Girls’ Protective Assets: A Collection of Tools for Program Design” ([link removed]) is a collection of tools and exercises that enable those who design and implement adolescent girl programmes to integrate a “Protective Asset-Building Approach” into programming.
The Girl Roster™: A Practical Tool for Strengthening Girl-Centered Programming ([link removed]) is a digital information collection tool that can help programme staff and practitioners rapidly understand who are the girls and young women in the communities where they work using a door-to-door mobile phone-based questionnaire.
“Making the Most of Mentors: Recruitment, Training, and Support of Mentors for Adolescent Girl Programming” ([link removed]) is a toolkit that provides resources to support different aspects of group-based programming for adolescents that has a particular emphasis on mentoring.
“More than a Backdrop: Understanding the Role of Communities in Programming” ([link removed]) is an action guide that highlights the important role communities play in girl-centered programming, and the critical need to
understand local communities to increase the chances of program success.
“Building Assets Toolkit: Developing Positive Benchmarks for Adolescent Girls” ([link removed]) provides programme implementers, policymakers, advocates, and adolescents themselves with everything they need to conduct the Building Assets Exercise, The Instruction Guide and Resource Manual is available in English and French, and the asset cards are available in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Swahili, and Portuguese.
This webinar ([link removed]) launched two of the above resources.
Girls Not Brides members interested in youth advocacy and programming are invited to visit the Population Council resource hub at YouthPower.org ([link removed]) , or to join a youth-focused community of practice: Youth in Peace and Security; Gender and ‘Positive Youth Development’; Youth Engagement and Cross Sectoral approaches.
Tanzania’s Supreme Court declares child marriage unconstitutional (#tanzania)
New brief: child marriage and violence against children (#Brief)
Stop stealing her childhood: we take our campaign to SDG summit (#SDG)
Share your everyday activism this #16days (#16days)
New resources from Population Council (#Population)
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Funding opportunities
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NGO Grant to promote the fight against sexism (Only open to EU applicants)
Apply ([link removed]) by 18 November
The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children
Apply ([link removed]) by 6 December
Ashinaga Africa Initiative
Apply ([link removed] ) by 13 December
Voice Sudden Opportunity Grants (Cambodia, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, Tanzania, Uganda)
Apply ([link removed]) by 31 December
European Commission - Support to victims of trafficking in human beings (Only open to EU applicants)
Apply ([link removed]) by 30 January 2020
Maypole Fund
Apply ([link removed]) by 31 January 2020
Awards
D-Prize
Apply ([link removed]) by 10 November
Soroptimist’s Live Your Dream: Education & Training Awards for Women
Apply ([link removed]) by 15 November
World Bank’s #Blog4Dev Competition to end child marriage
Apply ([link removed]) by 30 November
Ockenden International Prizes
Apply ([link removed] ) by 30 November
2020 Jamnalal Bajaj Awards
Apply ([link removed]) by 20 January 2020
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Reports & publications
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The International Federation for the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Action by Red Cross and Red Crescent national societies to prevent and respond to child marriage ([link removed]) , 2019.
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Girls Not Brides, Child marriage: a form of violence against children ([link removed]) , 2019. Available in English, French and Spanish.
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Other opportunities
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The Medicus Mundi Switzerland Bulletin ([link removed]) , a Swiss online journal for international cooperation and health, is looking for contributions on the topic of child health between 5 and 15 years of age, including child marriage-related issues. You can submit your article in English, French or German.
Contact Medicus Mundi at:
[email protected] (mailto:
[email protected]) to learn more. Deadline: 29 November.
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