• Protection against violence: working for better protection for girls and young women
• Participation: Participation in socio-political activity by girls and young women
• Economic participation: Enhancing economic opportunities for girls and young women
• (post)primary education: Enhancing (secondary) education for girls and young women

Goal and Objective: Goal: Support girls in Bangladesh to realize their rights to protection and education through reduction of child marriage.

Objective: To reduce incidence of child marriage among girls in Upazilas (sub-districts) of four districts in Bangladesh through mass awareness raising and strengthening child protection mechanism against child marriage in order to support girls, right to an education.

Outputsà Resultsà Outcome:

Outputs:

• Awareness of all levels {community through National} enhanced to reduce child marriage

• Capacity of formal and informal mechanisms to protect girls against CM are enhanced.

• Access of families of and target girls to social and economic protection against CM

• Coalition advocacy by NGOs/ Coalition members to strengthen legal mechanisms to prevent CM is improved.

Results:

• Girls are better prepared and organized to act as change agents at the local and national level to reduce CM.

• Acceptable of CM in all level in the project working areas is reduced as well as access of girls to social protection is increased.

• Legal mechanisms to prevent to CM strengthened at the local level through training and coalition Advocacy. Birth Registration system is established within community and government mechanism.

• Strengthened local and national level alliance of NGOs for coalition lobby and advocacy with policy makers for favorable CR policy is formulated and implemented.

• Increased number of reports on CM and its related issues are available with agencies and media for future research and practice.

Project Duration: October 2012- 31 March 2016

Start date: October 2012

Financial partner (Donor): Plan Bangladesh

Project Location/s and number of Field offices:  Gazipur district, Dhaka. Field

Offices: Sreepur, and (Gazipur Sadar will be next year).

Budget: Total BDT 38,64,470

Number of project staffs and volunteers : 5

Contact Person      : Md. Shariful Haque, Project Coordinator

E-mail                    :  haque_sharif1957@yahoo.com, Cell : 01718579621