TABLE 1.

Overview of Child Marriage Prevention Program Interventions, by Model, Burkina Faso and Tanzania

Burkina FasoTanzania
Community dialogue
  • —Facilitators recruited from communities and trained for five days.

  • —Facilitators mobilize a cross-section of the community in groups of 30.

  • —Groups attend 16 sessions.

  • —Sessions include information on child marriage and girls' education and devising and implementing solutions.

  • —Community and religious leaders recruited and trained for two days.

  • —Leaders deliver messages on child marriage and girls' education through routine community meetings such as religious services and community meetings.

School supplies and clubs
  • —Mentors go house-to-house to identify unmarried girls aged 12–17.

  • —Parents and girls register to receive school supplies in public ceremony

  • —Ceremonies used to educate public on importance of girls' education and eliminating child marriage.

  • —Girls given school supplies once per year at the beginning of the school year.

  • —Supplies were notebooks, pens, pencils, mathematical sets and US$3.50 subsidy of school fees.

  • —Mentors go house-to-house to identify unmarried girls aged 12–17.

  • —Parents and girls register to receive school supplies in public ceremony

  • —Ceremonies used to educate public on importance of girls' education and eliminating child marriage.

  • —Girls given school supplies or school uniform once per year at the beginning of the school year.

  • —Supplies were notebooks, pens, pencils, mathematical sets or a school uniform.

  • —In-school girls' clubs formed including life skills and tutoring.

Conditional asset transfer
  • —Mentors go house-to-house to identify unmarried girls aged 12–17.

  • —Parents and girls register to receive conditional asset (goat) in public ceremony

  • —Goats awarded after two years if girls remained unmarried and in school.

  • —Ceremonies used to educate public on importance of girls' education and eliminating child marriage.

  • —Mentors go house-to-house to identify unmarried girls aged 12–17.

  • —Parents and girls register to receive conditional asset (goat) in public ceremony

  • —Goats awarded after two years if girls remained unmarried and in school.

  • —Ceremonies used to educate public on importance of girls' education and eliminating child marriage.

Comprehensive model (all components)
  • —All interventions above

  • —All interventions above

ControlNo interventionNo intervention