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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.

Mariama joins her peers to receive learning materials from Building Futures for Children team, February 2021. Photo by Tommy Lengor, 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