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Child marriage is declining everywhere, but there are notable discrepancies in the changes observed between contexts: much of the change is driven by declines in countries where drivers of child marriage have been widely documented and where child marriage programs have a deeper history of engagement. On the question of what works to delay marriage for girls in countries with high rates of child marriage, it is important to recognize that we don’t have the same standard of evidence in contexts beyond South Asia. Evidence-based programming approaches are therefore likely best adapted to drivers that are more prominent in South Asian contexts.While child marriage prevalence remains deeply entrenched in many contexts, there is a tendency for research and programming efforts to operate in settings where child marriage is already declining. As recognition of the importance of tailoring program strategies to context-specific drivers of child marriage increases, there is a great demand for rigorous research to explore how various drivers interact in specific settings and to measure the impact of program strategies being implemented.We thank the members of the More Than Brides Alliance—including Save the Children Netherlands, Oxfam Novib, and Simavi—for their inputs and collaboration throughout this project. We additionally thank our local research partners in each MTBA country, who expertly conducted data collection in the field and without whom this work would not have been possible. In particularwe wish to thank Hamza Daud, Sydney Rodney Lungu, and Nancy Mulauzi at IKI; Sékou Omar Fofana, Timbaleck Traoré, and Ismalia Konaté at CERIPS; and Chaïbou Saadou, Ali Bako, and Siddou Moumouni at LASDEL.