Child marriage statistics in kenya

In this country we have a national partnership. Many Girls Not Brides member organisations have come together to accelerate progress to end child marriage in their countries by forming National Partnerships and coalitions. Below is an overview of what and where these networks are, what they do and how they work with Girls Not Brides.

Data sources

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  • Agency for Development Research, A Study on Child Marriage in Kenya,
  • European Commission, Kenya, [website], , (accessed February ).
  • Equality Now, FMG & child marriage in Kenya, (accessed May ).
  • Girls Not Brides, Child marriage in humanitarian settings, , (accessed February ).
  • Global Partnership for Education, Kenya, [website], (accessed February ).
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  • Minority Rights, Kenya: ‘The impact of climate change is worsening the situation of child marriage among the Maasai.’, [website], (accessed February ).
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  • Plan International, Because I am a girl: Kenya country report , , (accessed January ).
  • Republic of Kenya, National Plan of Action for Children in Kenya , , (accessed April )
  • U.S. Department of State, United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, [website], , (accessed February ).
  • UN CEDAW, Concluding observations on the eighth periodic report of Kenya, , p.5, ?symbolno=CEDAW/C/KEN/CO/8&Lang=En (accessed February ).
  • UN General Assembly, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Kenya, , p, p, (accessed April ).
  • UN General Assembly, National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/ Kenya, , (accessed ).
  • UNHCR, Kenya Statistics Package, November , (accessed February ).
  • UNHCR, Kenya Registered refugees and asylum-seekers as of 31 January , [website], (accessed January ).
  • UNICEF DATA, Percentage of girls and women aged years who have undergone FGM (by place of residence and household wealth quintile), February , (accessed February ).
  • UNICEF, UNICEF Kenya year end humanitarian situation report No. 3, [website], (accessed January ).
  • UNICEF, Mid-Year Humanitarian Situation Report Kenya, , (accessed February ).
  • UNICEF, Baseline Study Report: Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting and Child Marriage among the Rendille, Maasai, Pokot, Samburu and Somali Communities in Kenya, , (accessed February ).
  • UNICEF, Family Assets. Understanding and Addressing Child Marriage in Turkana, , (accessed February ).
  • UNICEF global databases , based on Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), and other national surveys. Population data from United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (). World Population Prospects , Online Edition. Rev. 1. (accessed April ).
  • UNICEF, Situation Analysis of Children and Women in Kenya , , (accessed February ).
  • UNICEF, UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation,[website], (accessed February ).
  • UNFPA, Kenyan humanitarian emergency, [website], (accessed February ).
  • United Nations, Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, [website], , (accessed February ).
  • Wadekar, N, Kenya is trying to end child marriage but climate change is putting more young girls at risk, , (accessed May ).