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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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