Understanding child marriage amongst girls with disabilities in Zimbabwe: Implications for an intersectional and gender transformative approach to ...

了解津巴布韦残疾女孩的童婚：对跨部门和性别变革方法的影响......

• 批准号: 2887045
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2887045
• 关键词: Understanding; child; marriage; amongst; girls

Each year 12 million girls are married before their 18th birthday. Eastern and Southern Africa has the second highest prevalence of child marriage globally and is home to 55 million girls who were married during childhood, including 1.4 million girls in Zimbabwe. Influenced by harmful social and gender norms, child marriage is a complex practice that perpetuates gender inequality and discrimination, placing girls and women at a disadvantage to fully embodying their life goals, living a life free of violence and securing their rights. Child marriage and its adverse impacts on girls' and women's lives has garnered increased attention worldwide. However, a critical evidence gap remains on the intersection of child marriage and disability. Disabled children often face violations of their rights to education, wellbeing and health, including social stigma, discrimination and violence. Moreover, the intersection of gender- and disability-based discrimination renders disabled girls at a considerable disadvantage, increasing their risk of experiencing abuse and gender-based violence, and making it harder for them to access basic needs, services and protection. Yet, there is no clear evidence base about the specific risks that disabled girls in Zimbabwe face or what their needs are in relation to child marriage, and whether they are falling through the cracks within initiatives to respond to and end the practice. The study will address this gap by investigating the risk and protective factors which shape disabled girls' experiences of child marriage in Zimbabwe, including support services that are required. In addition to giving visibility to the perspectives of a sub-group of girls whose voices are rarely heard in child marriage discussions, the research will enable a disabled girl-centred analysis of the key risk and protective factors linked to child marriage to underpin evidence-based policy and practice responses. The project will be guided by critical engagement with Feminist methodology (including feminist disability research) which: focuses on gender- and disability- based inequalities; values the experiences and needs of disabled girls and women; and sees research as a catalyst for patriarchal transformation and supporting women's empowerment in the global south. Descriptive analysis of UNICEF data on child marriage and disability in Zimbabwe will precede fieldwork using qualitative participatory methods chosen in discussion with girls, positioning them as experts on their lived experiences and as stakeholders in developing contextualised solutions to the issues they face.This project will partner with two non-governmental organisations well-versed in child marriage research and advocacy, Rozaria Memorial Trust (Zimbabwe) and the Women's Refugee Commission (US/Global). The student will co-produce at least 2 evidence-based outputs (e.g., videos, child-friendly and accessible resources, workshops)and engage in internal and external knowledge exchange opportunities with partners and key stakeholders, including practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and government officials. The findings will promote intersectional and girl-centred approaches within child marriage programming and advocacy initiatives at community, national, regional and global levels. In addition to producing the first evidence base on this topic, the study will elevate the voices of girls who are not meaningfully included within child marriage discourse through generating research that champions their representation and participation in ending the practice.

每年有1200万女孩在18岁生日前结婚。东部和南部非洲是全球童婚发生率第二高的地区，有5 500万女童在童年时期结婚，其中包括津巴布韦的140万女童。受有害的社会和性别规范的影响，童婚是一种复杂的做法，使性别不平等和歧视长期存在，使女孩和妇女处于不利地位，无法充分实现其生活目标，过上没有暴力的生活，并保障其权利。童婚及其对女孩和妇女生活的不利影响在全世界引起了越来越多的关注。然而，在童婚和残疾的交叉点上仍然存在关键的证据缺口。残疾儿童的受教育权、福祉权和健康权往往受到侵犯，包括社会耻辱、歧视和暴力。此外，基于性别和残疾的歧视交织在一起，使残疾女孩处于相当不利的地位，增加了她们遭受虐待和基于性别的暴力的风险，使她们更难获得基本需求、服务和保护。然而，关于津巴布韦残疾女孩面临的具体风险或她们在童婚方面的需求，以及她们是否在应对和结束这一做法的举措中被遗漏，没有明确的证据基础。这项研究将通过调查影响津巴布韦残疾女孩童婚经历的风险和保护因素，包括所需的支助服务，来解决这一差距。除了让人们了解在童婚讨论中很少听到其声音的一个女孩分组的观点外，这项研究还将使人们能够对与童婚有关的主要风险和保护因素进行以残疾女孩为中心的分析，以支持循证政策和实践对策。该项目将以女权主义方法（包括女权主义残疾研究）的重要参与为指导，该方法侧重于基于性别和残疾的不平等;重视残疾女孩和妇女的经验和需求;并将研究视为重男轻女转变和支持全球南方妇女赋权的催化剂。在实地工作之前，将对联合国儿童基金会关于津巴布韦童婚和残疾的数据进行描述性分析，采用与女孩讨论时选择的定性参与方法，将她们定位为生活经验方面的专家，并将她们定位为利益攸关方，为她们面临的问题制定因地制宜的解决方案。Rozaria纪念信托基金（津巴布韦）和妇女难民委员会（美国/全球）。学生将共同制作至少2个基于证据的输出（例如，视频、适合儿童且易于获取的资源、研讨会），并与合作伙伴和主要利益相关者（包括从业者、政策制定者、研究人员和政府官员）进行内部和外部知识交流。调查结果将促进在社区、国家、区域和全球各级的童婚方案拟订和宣传举措中采取跨部门和以女孩为中心的办法。除了就这一主题提供第一个证据基础外，这项研究还将通过开展研究，支持女童在结束童婚做法方面的代表性和参与，提高未被有意义地纳入童婚讨论的女童的声音。