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The Role of Identification in Ending Child Marriage

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dc.contributor.authorElefante, Marina
dc.contributor.authorHanmer, Lucia
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-18T16:27:06Z
dc.date.available2016-10-18T16:27:06Z
dc.date.issued2016-07
dc.description.abstractThe 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’s Goal for Gender Equality (SDG5 to: Achieve Gender Equality and Empower Women and Girls) sets a series of ambitious targets that will measure progress towards attaining this goal. One such target is to: ‘eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation. In this paper we examine how efforts to achieve legal identity for all, including birth registration for all, can contribute to ending child marriage. The authors begin by setting out the current context presenting data on child marriage and its impacts and then turn to birth registration drawing out its links with fundamental human rights and development goals. We then present estimates of the numbers of unregistered children in the world’s global regions based on the World Bank Identification for Development Initiative (ID4D) dataset. The authors turn next to the link between birth registration and child marriage rates6 using data on birth registration in the 106 countries for which authors also have data on child marriage. The authors find a correlation between high birth registration rates and low child marriage rates and discuss this link in the context of evidence on the underlying causes and drivers of child marriage. The authors explore the links between birth registration and child marriage in greater depth in two case studies: the first one examines the role of identity papers, particularly birth and marriage certificates, in the enforcement of minimum age of marriage laws for Syrian refugees in Jordan; the second one discusses how a recently adopted strategy to streamline the process for obtaining birth certificates in Indonesia can contribute to reducing child marriage. Despite evidence of a correlation, however, a policy pursuing universal birth registration is unlikely to have impact on child marriage rates unless it is embedded in broader efforts to end child marriage, including legal reform, advocacy, and national and local policies and programs which work with communities to change social norms and are designed to reach people that are at risk from being excluded from national efforts, for example refugees and internally displaced peoples.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26720171/role-identification-ending-child-marriage-identification-development-id4d
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/25184
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/25184
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjecthuman rights
dc.subjectbirth registration
dc.subjectchild marriage
dc.subjectrefugees
dc.subjectmarriage certificates
dc.subjectindentification
dc.subjectID
dc.subjectlaw enforcement
dc.titleThe Role of Identification in Ending Child Marriageen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.crossref.titleThe Role of Identification in Ending Child Marriage
okr.date.disclosure2016-08-29
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26720171/role-identification-ending-child-marriage-identification-development-id4d
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/25184
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b086fdee2d_2_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum26720171
okr.identifier.report107932
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okr.region.countryIndonesia
okr.region.countrySyrian Arab Republic
okr.sectorInformation and communications :: Information technology
okr.themeSocial protection and risk management :: Social Protection and Labor Policy Systems
okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicGender::Gender and Law
okr.topicGender::Gender and Social Policy
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::Information and Records Management
okr.topicLaw and Development::Human Rights
okr.unitGTIDR ICT - ECA/EAP/LCR/SAR (GTI09)
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