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and economic empowerment, at the very onset of crises and throughout the response,
transition and recovery. Such efforts should promote gender-transformative actions in
a culturally appropriate manner, by enabling practising communities to collectively
explore alternative ways of fulfilling their values and addressing their concerns.
54.
As reported above, numerous initiatives have been undertaken by stakeholders
in multiple humanitarian settings to eliminate child, early and forced marriage. Based
on the lessons learned from those experiences and the analysis contained in the
present report, the following recommendations are made to States, humanitarian
actors and other stakeholders:
(a)
Fund and promote reliable, transparent and participatory approaches to
collect data on child, early and forced marriage and to produce analysis and research
on its root causes, to inform programmes and interventions in humanitarian settings
and to serve as a baseline to monitor their impact;
(b)
Ensure the meaningful participation of girls and adolescents in the
development of policies and programmes to eliminate child, early and forced
marriage;
(c)
Ensure that programmes and policies to address child and forced
marriage, while being context-specific, always prioritize the enhancing of girls’ voice
and agency, including through psychosocial and medical services, legal support,
education and income-generating opportunities;
(d)
Ensure access to effective and accessible prevention, protection and
redress mechanisms for survivors of child, early and forced marriage, such as
hotlines, safe houses and shelters, mobile applications and other early-warning
mechanisms and legal support, including in the context of asylum-seeking processes,
together with awareness-raising efforts for women and girls on how to claim their
rights;
(e)
Support the establishment of rights-based sexual and reproductive
health services and psychosocial counselling, responding to the experiences and needs
of survivors and providing continuity of care and follow-up, and establish clear and
effective referral pathways to those services for survivors;
(f)
Invest in and implement long-term community-based mobilization,
targeted advocacy and awareness-raising activities, including for men, boys and
community, tribal and religious leaders, in order to dismantle discriminatory social
norms and practices and change attitudes condoning harmful practices;
(g)
Ensure that all actors involved in eliminating child, early and forced
marriage, including case workers and case managers, law enforcement officials, the
military, intersectoral departments, parliamentarians and health workers, are
adequately trained;
(h)
Establish inclusive education systems that particularly target girls with
multiple dimensions of marginalization, including refugees, migrants and girls with
disabilities, and implement initiatives such as training teachers, building partnerships,
subsidizing safe and accessible transport and infrastructure and removing
administrative and discriminatory barriers to quality education for girls;
(i)
Design and encourage comprehensive, effective and rights-based civil
registration processes, including through the use of information and communications
technology;
(j)
Continuously invest in the strengthening of social services and welfare,
and ensure that existing minimum standards in humanitarian response are met, such
as the Sphere standards in food security and nutrition, health and protection and the
Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Guidelines for Integrating Gender-based
Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action.
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