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".findings.have implications for the feasibility of community-based social-norms-change and movement-building efforts to realize sustained impacts under chronic conditions of gender inequality and the COVID-19 pandemic." Girl child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM) persists in South Asia, with long-term effects on well-being.
Care Bangladesh in association with The Daily Star organized a roundtable titled “Impact of Social Norms Programming” on February 28, 2023. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.
"These findings suggest conceptualization of female empowerment as requiring not only individual empowerment/achievement, but also societal and systemic change." Bangladesh reports the fourth-highest prevalence of child marriage (CM) globally and the highest in South Asia, with 59% of the women aged 20-24 reported being married before the age of 18