(ii)
provides opportunities for students or learners to
discuss and analyse gender inequality and inequity;
and
(iii)
provides advocacy or lessons that ensure that a
child in marriage or a victim of a child marriage that
attends that learning institution is accepted and not
discriminated against.
(4)
The Government
may establish incentives for families and
children to assist in the delay of marriage, such as –
(a)
providing cash transfers to the family to encourage
children to remain single until they reach the minimum
age of marriage;
(b)
providing funds to a girl child, to enable the girl child
complete secondary education; or
(c)
giving scholarships and bursaries to a girl child up to
tertiary level.
(5)
The Government shall support the programmes and incentives
specified in this section from moneys paid out of an anti-child
marriage fund established in accordance with section 42 or such
other funds, directly budgeted for such purposes, appropriated,
by the Government, to an appropriate authority.
PART V
MEASURES AND INTERVENTIONS TO MITIGATE EFFECTS OF CHILD
MARRIAGE AND PROTECT CHILDREN ALREADY IN MARRIAGE
27.
Mitigatory measures and interventions
(1)
The Minister shall, in consultation with relevant appropriate
authorities, put in place measures and interventions to mitigate
the effects of child marriage and protect a child already in
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