Commitment title:

Zero children (adolescent girls aged 10–19) will suffer from violence, early marriage or early pregnancy by 2030

Commitment description:

We are committed, through programmes and projects funded by technical and financial partners such as the UNFPA-funded Illimin Initiative, to delaying child marriage and preventing early pregnancy with a view to reducing the maternal mortality rate. The Illimin approach is designed to help empower adolescent girls and increase their resilience/

Mode of engagement:
  • Programmatic action
    Le Gouvernement du Niger avec l’appui technique de UNFPA met en œuvre depuis 2013, l’Initiative pour les Adolescentes du Niger « ILLIMIN, afin de contribuer à retarder le mariages et les grossesses précoces à travers leurs atomisation
Commitment to be actioned in: Niger
Submitted from: Niger
Submitted by
Projet de luttre contre l'emsablement du Fleuve Niger (PLCE)
Thematic area
Address gender-based violence and the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation
Commitment category

(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.