Girls Not Brides
Dr. Faith Mwangi-Powell, Chief Executive Officer
As the global civil society partnership to end child marriage, we know systemic change is only possible through collaboration, partnership, and collective action. Being a SheDecides champion means acting together to ensure access to quality, stigma-free, and affordable sexual and reproductive health and rights for everyone, and especially for girls and women. It means committing to giving every girl the right to choose, so that they can fulfil their potential.
How we are working so SheDecides
Girls Not Brides is a global partnership with a singular purpose: to end child marriage. To achieve this urgent goal, we’ve built a movement of more than 1,400 grassroots, national, and international organisations across nearly 100 countries. We know we can achieve more together than we ever could alone, which is why we mobilise, equip, and influence our ecosystem to address the political, social, legal, and economic conditions that prevent girls from having the right to choose.
Girls Not Brides members, National and State Partnerships and Coalitions
Our members work across sectors – including sexual and reproductive health and rights, education, human rights and humanitarian contexts – seeking to bring child marriage to national, regional, and international attention. Girls Not Brides National and State Partnerships and coalitions are groups of member organisations that have come together to accelerate progress to end child marriage at the national or state level through collaboration and collective action.
Read MoreChild Marriage and SRHR
Child marriage is rooted in gender inequality and deprives girls and young women of their fundamental rights – including their sexual and reproductive health and rights – and significantly limits their life choices. Ending child marriage and enhancing access to quality, stigma-free, affordable SRHR services will significantly enhance the health and development outcomes for millions of children, adolescents and women around the world.
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Advocating to end child marriage through SRHR policies
Girls Not Brides advocates for sexual and reproductive health and rights to end child marriage and protect the rights of married girls. Through global, regional, and national advocacy with member organisations, Girls Not Brides’ advocacy seeks to integrate child marriage into SRHR policies, secure commitments to advance SRHR, protect SRHR language against anti-gender backlash in global politically negotiated resolutions and declarations, and ensure state accountability under international law through UN human rights reporting mechanisms.
Read MoreNational Partnership spotlight: Guatemala
The "Red Voceras de Niñas y Adolescentes" network, facilitated by Mesa a Favor de Las Niñas y Adolescentes (NP), empowers young girls and adolescents nationwide through hybrid training in advocacy and political engagement. Participants gain vital skills and knowledge to drive change, with a curriculum emphasising human rights, gender sensitivity, and child marriage. Training includes national reality analysis, legal frameworks, political advocacy, ICT use, and public speaking. Follow #MesaNiñaGt and #RedVoceras for updates and achievements!
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Member spotlight: AMODEFA Mozambique
AMODEFA (Mozambican Association for Family Development) leads, advocates for and ensures rights and access to integrated and quality sexual and reproductive services in an inclusive manner, especially for adolescents and youth. AMODEFA is also the joint coordinator for Coligação para Eliminação dos Casamentos Prematuros” (CECAP), the Girls Not Brides National Partnership to end child marriage and premature unions in Mozambique.
Read MoreAbout Girls Not Brides
Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 1,400 civil society organisations across nearly 100 countries dedicated to ending child marriage. We bring together local, national, and global actors standing alongside girls as they shape their own future.
Our vision is a world where girls in all their diversity decide if, when, and whom to marry, and where their rights and futures are fully realised.
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