A/RES/79/158 Child, early and forced marriage early and forced marriage and are vulnerable to the consequences of early, frequent and unintended pregnancy, and to promoting their active and meaningful participation in decisions that affect them, by prioritizing the provision of child - and adolescentcentred services, with a focus on safe and equitable access, particularly in relation to schooling, nutrition programmes, immunization, maternal and newborn care, and child protection and positive parenting programmes; 37. Further calls upon States to strengthen prevention and protection measures for women and children, particularly girls who are victims of, or at risk of, abduction, trafficking and forced religious conversion by armed groups and other non-State actors in the context of child, early and forced marriage; 38. Calls upon States to ensure uninterrupted access to and funding for initiatives and programmes that respond effectively to girls’ specific needs and challenges, including access to essential healthcare services, including sexual and reproductive healthcare services, and to safe and affordable drinking water and adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all, including menstrual hygiene, and including in disadvantaged areas such as rural communities, informal settlements and humanitarian settings, and to consider increasing international financial support and technical assistance to actively support efforts to end child, early and forced marriage, with a focus on community engagement; 39. Encourages relevant United Nations entities and agencies, regional and subregional organizations, within their respective mandates, civil society and other relevant actors and human rights mechanisms to continue to collaborate among themselves and with Member States in developing and implementing strategies and policies at the national, regional and international levels to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage, as well as to support those who were married as children; 40. Encourages relevant United Nations entities and agencies, regional and subregional organizations, the international financial institutions, civil society and other relevant actors and human rights mechanisms to continue to collaborate with Member States and national statistical agencies in order to assist in strengthening and building capacity for data and reporting systems for analysing, monitoring and publicly reporting on progress to end child, early and forced marriage based on evidence and addressing data gaps, where they may exist, especially on girls with disabilities; 41. Affirms the need for States and relevant United Nations entities and agencies to improve the safe and ethical collection and use of quantitative, qualitative and comparable data on violence against women and girls and on harmful practices, disaggregated by sex, age, disability, civil status, race, ethnicity, migratory status, socioeconomic status, education level, geographical location, and including those hardest to reach, and other characteristics relevant in national contexts, as appropriate, to identify and focus action, decision -making, policies and programmes on those furthest behind, to enhance research and dissemination of evidence -based and good practices relating to the prevention and elimination of child, early and forced marriage and to strengthen monitoring and impact assessment of existing policies and programmes as a means of ensuring their effectiveness and implementation; 42. Encourages the international community to fulfil its commitment in supporting developing countries, African countries, the least developed countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, as well as those with the highest prevalence of child, early and forced marriage, in strengthening the capacity of national statistical offices and data systems to ensure access to high quality, timely, reliable and disaggregated data while ensuring national ownership in 14/15 24-24151