Digital dashboard workshop begins as war against child marriage intensifies |25 June 2025

Delegates pose for a souvenir photo at the start of the workshop (Photo: Contributed)

Digital dashboard workshop begins as war against child marriage intensifies

A three-day regional workshop took place last week in Cape Town to finalise a pioneering Digital Dashboard to track implementation of the SADC Model Law on Eradicating Child Marriage and Protecting Children Already in Marriage.

The SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) and other partners convened the meeting that brought together delegates including Monitoring and Evaluation specialists, data scientists, SRHR researchers, youth activists and civil-society partners from SADC member States, with several participating online.

The gathering is the latest milestone for a Technical Working Group that, after earlier sessions in Johannesburg and Windhoek, has already produced a comprehensive Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Framework, Theory of Change and Minimum Programme Standards.

By Moses Magadza

Media and communications manager at the SADC PF

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