Costing Study on Child Marriage in Pakistan: A Report on Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 2020

The aim of this study is, to address the existing gap in the evidence on incidence, socio-economic
impact and associated costs of child marriage in Pakistan, to inform policy debate and legal reform
at the governmental level for eradication of child marriage through evidence-based research and to
generate a wider socio-political and normative discourse around the issue of child marriage. The
information was gathered from 10 randomly districts from Punjab and KP on cost of child marriage.