03 Aug, 2023
200,000 €
March 2020 – December 2022
In Nepal, the legal age for marriage is set at 20, however, according to Unicef, Nepal has the 17th highest prevalence of child marriage in the world. 36.6% Nepalese girls are married before the age of 18 and 10.4% are married before they are 15. The median ages for the first marriage are lowest in provinces 2, 5 and 6 where the project takes place. The harmful practice of child marriage is particularly widespread in the most vulnerable communities in Terai due to poverty, social exclusion and ignorance of the legal framework for child marriage.
In March 2016, the Nepalese government organized a national « Girls' Summit » in Kathmandu and set itself the goal of ending child marriage by 2030. It aims to achieve this goal by developing a national strategy to end child marriage which will form the basis of a national action plan to end child marriage.
The main stakeholders ( children, families, communities, carriers of homework ) have empowered, sensitized and mobilized to report and respond to early and forced marriage in the districts of Bardiya and dailekh.
The project operates in 3 different areas:
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Bénéficiaires primaires
Children from the six neighborhoods of Bardia and Dailekh districts
Children from poor and marginalized groups – Dalits (untouchables), Madhesis and Janjatis
Bénéficiaires secondaires
family of children
Dalits, Madhesis and Janjati communities
Local governments
Community and religious leaders
We do not show on this site any child victim of sexual exploitation. The few recognizable children are beneficiaries of our prevention actions.
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