Empowering Girls and Delaying Child Marriage: New Findings on What Works to Delay Child Marriage in Bangladesh

New evidence from the Bangladeshi Association for Life Skills, Income, and Knowledge forAdolescents (BALIKA) project, which seeks to delay child marriage by building girls’ skills for modern livelihoods, provides important insights on what approaches work best to delay child marriage in a country where two in every three girls is married before reaching age 18. Join the Population Council for a presentation of new evidence from BALIKA and an interactive discussion on what they mean for programs and policies around the world. Speakers include Rachel Vogelstein, Senior Fellow and Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations, Ann Blanc, Vice President and Director, Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program, Population Council, Sajeda Amin, Senior Associate, Population Council, Johana Tima, Program Manager/Program Officer, Population Council, John Bongaarts, Vice President and Distinguished Scholar, Population Council, and Mihira Karra, Senior Technical Advisor, USAID.