Gender-Based Violence
Healthy Unions Program
Healthy Unions: Community Engagement
and Behavioral Change to Eliminate Bride Price, Bride Abduction,
and Early Marriage in Ethiopia
Length of Activity: September 2007
- September 2010
Objective: The U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) awarded CARE, an international
non-governmental organization, a cooperative agreement to
implement a three-year program in Ethiopia focused on ending
child marriage in the country. The program is specifically
designed to educate and encourage change within communities
regarding the harmful traditional practices of bride abduction,
bride price and early marriage. The Healthy Unions program
will be carried out in the Oromiya Region of the country,
where 80 percent of the marriages result from bride abduction.
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