Comment, States Parties should allocate sufficient budgetary and other resources towards ending child marriage. These should include budgetary, human and other relevant resource allocations for programmes, awareness campaigns, CRVS systems, legislative reform, law and policy implementation and training. C. Other measures Take measures to address the root causes of child marriage, including: Poverty [46] The requirement that States Parties take all necessary measures to address poverty is well established and will contribute to ending child marriage.32 Measures to address poverty include increasing national budgets for social services such as education, health and adequate housing. Failure to provide basic social services results not only in the breach of legal obligations to address poverty but also in an enabling environment of child marriages. [47] Child marriage is strongly associated with girls who have received little or no formal education, often due to family poverty and perceptions 32 There is clear empirical evidence that shows that poverty is one of the leading root causes of child marriage, see Office of the High Commission for Human Rights, 2014 “Preventing and Eliminating Child, Early and Forced Marriage” available at http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Children/ThematicReports/ Pages/ThematicreportsonchildrenIndex.aspx (accessed 18 March 2016). In many countries, including in Africa, marriage is perceived as a way to ensure the economic subsistence of girls and women who have no autonomous access to productive resources and who live in situations of extreme poverty. Articles 10, 13, 15 and 16 of the Maputo Protocol and Article 20(2) of the African Children’s Charter set out this obligation but it is also inferred from the guarantee of other rights and freedoms set out in the African Charter, Maputo Protocol and the African Children’s Charter. 24