Echoes of Displacement: Exploring Early Marriage and Fertility Among Rohingya Adolescents

This pictorial booklet is an output from research which explores the various ways that displacement has affected the process of family formation among Rohingya adolescents in Cox’s Bazar. The research seeks to understand the underlying drivers of early marriage among both boys and girls, the factors that influence childbearing after marriage, what shapes demand for contraception, and how adolescents navigate concerns around sub-fecundity and the pressure to demonstrate fertility in marriage.

This pictorial booklet documents the experiences of Rohingya adolescents and young adults through visual narratives, highlighting the impact of displacement on early marriage and childbearing. It provides key learnings and messages from these stories for service providers and policymakers at all levels who are working to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of Rohingya people in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.