The book offers an extensive research work to examine the causes behind increasing rate of child marriage during COVID-19 in Northern Bangladesh.The authors have also scrutinized the existing policies to identify policy gaps and provides some policy recommendations from this insightful study. Apart from, conventional development research on child marriage, where poverty and social norms are influential factors, authors of this book has argued that instead of considering these factors separately, interaction among different economic and societal factors as well as intersectional identities are dominating behind rising child marriage. Again, COVID induced factors has pushed these cases to take a unique formation. This book is valuable for policy makers to address the social challenges which already exist and exacerbate due to COVID influence and has potential threat on human development as well as human rights like child marriage.

• Dr Faraha Nawaz is a Professor at the Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. Dr Nawaz has also proved her excellence both in her basic and applied researches as well as in publishing. As an academic, she has devoted herself in undertaking wide-ranging research in social sciences in general and gender issues in particular, and  has published seven (07) books from world renowned publishers, a number of book chapters published in reputed edited books and more than thirty-five (35) articles published in SCOPUS indexed peer reviewed international journals. She is an international fellow of Brown University and visiting research fellow of University of OXFORD.
• Dabjani Saha has pursued her Bachelor and Masters’ Degree (Thesis Group) from Department of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi. She has worked as research assistant in several research projects funded by University of Rajshahi, Tearfund UK, Transform Aid Australia, working paper from IDS. She has authored in book, book chapter published from Springer Nature Singapore, research article published from Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA) and magazine article. Her core areas of interest are Social Security, Human Right, Social Policy, and Public Sector Management.