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In the absence of broader social and economic changes in womens status few interventions have had an impact on harmful marriage practices. Legal remedies - those that set a minimum age for marriage grant women the right to consent to or refuse a marriage or ban marriage payments such as brideprice and dowry - have generally had little impact. These are at best blunt instruments necessary but not sufficient to bring about the fundamental changes in attitudes toward girls and their rights. Even education while important may not exert an impact on its own. For example in Bangladesh a conditional cash transfer program giving parents financial incentives to keep their adolescent daughters in school succeeded in increasing secondary school enrollment but had no impact on marriage timing. The key in many places may be the promotion of schooling - particularly secondary schooling - combined with meaningful prospects of positive livelihood opportunities. Combining public education about the negative effects of early and forced marriage with positive preventive strategies is also valuable. The Association for the Struggle Against Violence Against Women (ALVF from its name in French) in Cameroon is one such example. ALVF provides counseling language and literacy training economic support and empowerment activities for girls who have fled (or been thrown out from) early or forced marriages to help them overcome their adversities. At the same time the program seeks to bring about broader social change by highlighting in the public sphere - as well as among parents and husbands - the plight of girls who were married early and/or by force. Hence ALVFs prevention strategy is based on a broad understanding of the perceptions expectations and motivations that sustain the practice of early and forced marriage. That understanding is based on the experiences of the Cameroonian women who work or seek help at ALVF which are shared in the following case study.

When girls' lives matter: Ending forced and early marriage in Cameroon