neither youthoriented programmes nor those targeting adult women are likely to address the unique circumstances of married girls or the needs of girls at risk of child marriage unless they do so in a planned and deliberate manner but unless laws are enforced and communities support these laws they will have little impact timing is key these interventions especially schooling and assetbuilding for girls must be directed at young adolescents to years old before or around the time of puberty in order to counter pressures on girls for marriage and childbearing for social and economic security