Guiding questions

1. What efforts have been made or are planned to implement General Assembly resolution A/RES/77/202 and address the recommendations of the Secretary-General’s latest report on the issue of child, early and forced marriage (A/77/282)? Please, provide information, inter alia, on measures to:
   1. address the root causes of child, early and forced marriage including social norms, gender inequalities and stereotypes;
   2. ensure access to education, decent work, social protection, health services, including sexual and reproductive health, for girls and women who are affected or at risk, who are already married or in informal unions, who have fled such a marriage or union, whose marriage has dissolved, and widowed girls or women who were married as girls;
   3. guarantee protection measures, remedies and support services for victims;
   4. implement child- and gender-responsive budgeting to support effective measures to eradicate child, early and forced marriage.
2. What prevention mechanisms have proved effective to eradicate child, early and forced marriage? Please include examples of promising practices and challenges encountered on engaging family members, religious, traditional and community leaders, in raising awareness about, and countering child, early and forced marriage.
3. What kind of approaches and tools have been used to collect disaggregated data on child, early and forced marriages, as well as informal unions? Please share challenges encountered, up-to-date information, including disaggregation categories and statistics.
4. Have digital technologies and tools been used to address child, early and forced marriage? If so, please share promising practices, challenges and possible solutions.
5. Are digitalized birth and marriage registration systems being used in your country, requiring mandatory registration of all births and marriages, including childbirths at home and marriages under customary and religious laws? Do these digitalized registration systems allow to verify digitally birth certificates, before registering any marriage?
6. What other innovative strategies have been used to address child, early and forced marriage, as well as informal unions and collect data on this practice in your country?