Bangles and Bindhis: engaging communities about child marriage in southern Nepal
Project Summary
Nepal has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. Our public engagement project will use film to engage with communities about the health implications of child marriage.
We will interview adults married as children, and discuss the causes and consequences of their marriage.
Participants will decide what they want to communicate, and will participate in the making of the film. If they decide to, they will also appear in the film. We will engage community members at the film showing and afterwards, to define the problem locally, and collectively seek ways to address it.
Key Project Information
Dates: 1st September 2016 - 31st October 2017
Principal Investigator: Dr Delan Devakumar & Dr Joanna Morrison
Partners: Mr Dinesh Deokota, Media for Development, Mr Suraj Koirala Transpsychosocial Organisation, Dalit Social Development Centre
Location: Nepal
Funding: Wellcome Trust
Contact: d.devakumar@ucl.ac.uk / joanna.morrison@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Joanna Morrison
Dr Delan Devakumar
Dinesh Deokota, Sophiya Dulal and Sunita Thapa - Media for Development
Suraj Koirala - Transpsychosocial Organisation
Dalit Social Development Centre, Kapilvastu