Guidance on Child Marriage: Programming for married girls and girls at risk of child marriage in forced displacement and crisis settings

This guidance is applicable for programmes targeting girls at risk of child marriage, married girls, divorced girls, widowed girls, girls in informal and unregistered marriages, girls in polygamous marriages and refugee girls married to citizens of the host country, among others. The purpose of this guidance is to provide UNHCR, Plan International and partner staff with an understanding of child marriage, its causes and consequences in forced displacement settings, and the measures to be employed for prevention, risk mitigation and response. It provides guidance for designing multisectoral prevention, risk mitigation and response strategies, including specialized services such as case management. Throughout you will find examples of programmes and partnerships as well as tools and resources for each chapter. This guidance is also intended for staff involved in refugee protection procedures and offers guidance for handling child marriage cases during refugee registration, refugee status determination and durable solutions procedures.