investments, multi-country initiatives to end child

marriage.

They were able to reach 4 million girls less in 2025 than they were in 2024.

It has real impacts on girls.

It means the shutting down of programs, of essential services, the loss of trained staff, for example, across programs and leaving millions of girls extra at risk of child marriage every year.

I think what is really important to look at is obviously that is an immediate crisis, but even when the funding is in place, how do we make sure that we really sustain the progress we have been made? So we know at the moment what needs to happen to end child marriage, but what we see very often in this sector is that Interconnected challenges around a girl's life are often addressed in separate sort of silos.

If you think about a girl, she might be at risk of marriage, she might be at risk of dropping out of school, she might be at risk of early pregnancy, she might be at risk of violence.

Can you give an example? You used one example in India that prevalence fell from 49% in 2001 to 23% in 2021.