Cost-Benefit Analysis of Interventions to Boost Girls’ Secondary Education and Reduce Early Child Marriage in Malawi – Technical Report
1 June 2021
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Malawi’s secondary education system suffers from perennially low gross enrollment rates. Child marriage plays a key role in this dynamic, with 43% of female dropouts being attributed to either marriage or pregnancy. Based on substantial sector expert consultation, and a review of existing policies and literature, this paper examined the social and economic return-on-investment of six interventions:
- Increasing the number of secondary schools for girls
- Education promotion
- Community dialogues to prevent child marriage
- Cash or asset transfers for girls, conditional on school enrolment
- Child marriage survivor program to rehabilitate annulled child marriages including scholarships to return to school
- Sexual and reproductive health and female empowerment programs
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