Advocacy

Salmata Davies (Left) and Alex Michael Sesay (Right) in a meeting with SCI Senior Management Team February 2021. Photo credit Ramatu Jalloh, Save the Children.

Hon. Catherine Tarawalie giving commitments on behalf of Parliamentarians to young champions after a fruitful discussion at the Parliament Building on Ending Child Marriage in Sierra Leone, 25 February 2021. Photo by Abdul Sillah, Save the Children.

^{Advocacy section with child and young people champions after 2 day training on ECM budget advocacy.}

Six of our champions have been trained from 3-4 February on the Ending Child Marriage Budget Analysis report, as well as advocacy and communication skills required. These six champions were drawn from SCI operational communities.

On Monday 25^th January 2021, Save the Children  launched a report on: ‘Ending Child Marriage in West Africa: Enhancing policy implementation and budgeting, Sierra Leone and Niger’ (FR and ENG). The report builds on from the 2017 High Level M