Education for All: Reflections on the Schooling Status for the Girl Child in Uganda

Kikulwe, Daniel; Walakira, Eddy; Ssebikindu, Lyne; Ssebikindu, Joy; Muhangi, Denis; Matovu, Fred

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48535-5_15

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“…The School to Work Transition Survey showed that as many as 68 per cent of young people in Uganda had only completed primary school, whereas 3.4 per cent had been educated to tertiary level (UBOS 2016). Various pressures lead to education being cut short -including the cost of school fees, shortterm financial benefits of keeping children contributing to the household, the cost of sanitary products for girls, as well as pregnancy and marriage (Kikulwe et al 2017;Montgomery et al 2016).…”

Section: Uganda's Changing Climatementioning

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Young people ‘making it work’ in a changing climate

Barford,

Magimbi,

Mugeere

et al. 2023

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Globally, young people face weak labour market demand and have been particularly susceptible to recent livelihood stresses and shocks linked to climate change. In this article, we consider what happens when young people face intersecting challenges including climate change. While much of the literature focuses on barriers to work and how to break these, we consider young people�s struggles and successes in securing and maintaining work. The focus is on Uganda, demographically one of the world�s youngest countries and home to a largely �underemployed� cohort of young people. Our findings identify some of the many ways in which climate change disrupts young people�s livelihoods. Young people are already proactively responding to climate change. This points to the need for other actors to learn from young people�s existing endeavours, to build in more support and opportunities, manage risk and insecurity, and construct a more climate change-resilient infrastructure.

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Section: Uganda's Changing Climatementioning

confidence: 99%

Young people ‘making it work’ in a changing climate

Barford,

Magimbi,

Mugeere

et al. 2023

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“…This coincides with our finding of the timing of the change, a decline in adolescent birth including proportions who wanted the pregnancy then and those in union before first birth, but we are not able to make a causal inference due to the cross-sectional nature of the data. Uganda has registered an increase in the enrolment of girls in school [33][34][35] and a reduction in early marriage in the last 15 years [16]. Other studies in Uganda have demonstrated a decline in adolescent childbearing but did not indicate when the decline set in [36][37][38].…”

Section: Levels and Time Trends Of Adolescent Childbirthmentioning

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Trends and determinants of adolescent childbirth in Uganda- analysis of rural and urban women using six demographic and health surveys, 1988–2016

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Introduction: Uganda has high adolescent pregnancy. The details of adolescent childbirth and urban/rural patterns are scarce. We investigated the levels, time trends and determinants of adolescent childbirth in Uganda separately for urban and rural women. Methods: We estimated the percentage of women 20-24 years at each of the six Uganda Demographic and Health Surveys (1988/ 89, 1995, 2000/01, 2006, 2011 and 2016) who reported a live childbirth before age 20 years ("adolescent childbirth"), and examined change over time using t-test. A modified multivariable Poisson regression was used to examine determinants of having adolescent childbirth on the 2016 survey.

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“… I would have left that man long time ago but, …” exploring circumstances of and motivators for repeat adolescent birth in Eastern Uganda

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Background First birth before 18 years has declined in Uganda unlike repeat adolescent birth (=second or more births before age 20 years). We explored the circumstances of and motivators for repeat adolescent birth in Eastern Uganda. Methods Between January and March 2020, we conducted a qualitative study involving 70 individual in-depth interviews with purposively selected respondents - 20-25-year-old women with and without repeat adolescent birth, their partners, and parents, in the communities of Teso sub-region. We conducted latent content analysis. Results Four major themes emerged: poverty, vulnerability, domestic violence, and demotivators. Sub-themes identified under poverty were: “limited provisions”, “peasantry”, “large families”, “dropping out of school”, “alcohol abuse”, and “broken family structure”. Vulnerability included “marital entrapment” and “partner coercion”. Demotivators included: “abandonment”, “stern warning”, “objection to marriage”, and “empowerment”. Extreme poverty resulted in inadequate provision of basic needs leading to unprotected sexual activity in a bid to secure financial support. Following the first birth, more than three quarters of the women with repeat adolescent birth reported increased economic distress that forced them to remain in unwanted marriage/union, often characterized by partner coercion, despite wanting to delay that repeat birth. Women without repeat adolescent birth avoided a second birth by empowerment through: an economic activity, contraception use, and resumption of schooling. Conclusion Repeat adolescent birth in Uganda is premised around attempts to address the economic distress precipitated by first birth. Many women want to delay that repeat birth but the challenges robbed them of their reproductive autonomy. Beyond efforts to prevent first birth, programs need to address economic empowerment, ensure contraceptive access, and school re-integration for adolescent mothers in order to prevent shortly-spaced repeat births.

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Education for All: Reflections on the Schooling Status for the Girl Child in Uganda

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Young people ‘making it work’ in a changing climate

Young people ‘making it work’ in a changing climate

Trends and determinants of adolescent childbirth in Uganda- analysis of rural and urban women using six demographic and health surveys, 1988–2016

“… I would have left that man long time ago but, …” exploring circumstances of and motivators for repeat adolescent birth in Eastern Uganda

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