ABSTRACT
Eliminating child marriage ought to be central to all human rights, economic development, and poverty alleviation initiatives. One begin by summarizing what one learned from early "campaigns" against child marriage in the United States and international forums. One then present a description of the work in Ethiopia, which arguably provides the best examples so far of scalable programs that have actually moved up the age of marriage and fostered delayed child-bearing among married girls. Mapping child marriage is essential to determining where investment is most needed. Adolescent girls, especially the poorest girls in the poorest communities, most at risk of child marriage are currently embedded in many other policies, youth, women, indigenous people, children's policies. One experimented with different ways of conveying the realities of girl's lives using their own voices and overcoming social distances, policy, and language barriers in the process.
