Adolescent Pregnancy

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Our gratitude goes to all the adolescent girls and key respondents who took part in this study and greatly enriched our understanding of the factors contributing to teenage pregnancy, consequences and contextual strategies that can be employed to reduce teenage pregnancies in Kenya.

We thank the leaders of the ten counties: Bomet, Bungoma, Busia, Homa- Bay, Kisii, Kisumu, Kwale, Meru, Narok and Siaya who accepted to take part in this assessment.

Special gratitude is extended to all the key stakeholders from the National government, CSO Reference Group, County governments, NGOs and CBOs at county level and the local communities, among others who assisted to make the assessment a success. Information gathered from these groups forms the basis for our analysis of findings, conclusions and recommendations.

Our sincere thanks go to Instream Consulting Group Limited who spearheaded the study design and provided overall management and oversight of the data collection activities and to Instream’s dedicated team of field supervisors and interviewers who collected all the data presented in this report despite field challenges. We acknowledge and recognize their determination and professionalism during the entire process.

We acknowledge QuadExcel Consulting limited for dedicating their time to conduct data cleaning, data analysis and for putting together this report.

We recognize the financial support from WE Trust that has enabled effective execution of this assessment commissioned by Akili dada.