Manila, April 30 -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is working with members of the newly created Committee on Child Early and Forced Marriage and Unions (CEFMU) for a united campaign to prevent early marriages and unions as well as changing the norms that perpetuate the harmful practice of child marriage.

"As part of our efforts to help curb child marriages, the DSWD, through its program development arm -- the Social Technology Bureau - is working with development partners in a series of workshops toward the co-creation and model-building of a Child Protection Systems Strengthening (CPSS) for CEFMU," DSWD spokesperson Irene Dumlao said in a news release on Tuesday.

These DSWD partners include the United Nations C...