Promoting Legislation, Prompting Action to End Child Marriage in Pakistan: Phase II

The Phase-II of the project is based on the lessons learned as well as a window of opportunity created through cultivation of support structures, networks and discourse in Phase-I of the project. In Phase-II, the aim of the project is to keep the agenda of child marriage alive among new legislators and to sustain engagement with religious leaders and journalists to reach out to even greater number of young people for advocating for SRH rights. The project also aims at improving knowledge through social media campaigning and generating positive discourse against child marriage through a national convention and a series of public seminars in coordination with the caucus of civil society organisations. This is especially in view of the new government formed after the 2018 general elections and the new governments formed at the federal and provincial levels. More importantly, the campaign will leverage on the structures and network it has been able to cultivate in the first phase from policy sections, media, religious circles and civil society.

Duration: 1 Years

Coverage: Pakistan

Donor: MannionDaniels

Focus: Child Marriage

Key Results and Achievements

Based on the lessons learned in the first phase of the project, one of the main activity-sets is capacity strengthening of journalists and media professionals in Pakistan on human rights-based reporting including overview of international and regional treaties and obligations of Pakistan. Another learning was the need to reach out to communities directly, especially young people, to promote positive practices. In this respect, Phase II of the project includes a national convention as well as seminars by religious leaders, young and journalists on the issue of child marriage. Another lesson learned through the social media campaign run in the previous phase of the project is that religious interpretations is a major driver of child marriage in Pakistan. A much deeper social media campaign where voices from the field will be showcased and youth will be engaged with advocacy against child marriage is also planned in Phase II.

Selected Media Products

Products and material developed in Phase-I can be accessed through the following link:

ccp-pakistan.org.pk/project/child-marriage/

Further Information

Ms. Shagufta Bhatti

shagufta@ccp-pakistan.org.pk

Center for Communication Programs Pakistan is registered in Pakistan as a nongovernmental and nonprofit organization under the Societies Act XXI of 1860