3.3.1 Lack of Comprehensive Sexual Education

Education Officers

1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 School Heads (HM/DH) 3 6 5 7 4 7 3 3 3 6 Sub-County Administrators 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 Ward administrators 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Chiefs/Village Heads 2 3 2 2 1 3 1 2 5 2 Births Registrations Officers 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1

Total Number of

Respondents 8 13 9 13 7 13 6 6 10 12

FGDs

Adolescent Girls 4 5 3 5 2 4 4 2 4 5

Response Rates

A total of 394 adolescent girls were sampled from the ten targeted counties. This included a 5% non-response rate. Of these 377 adolescent girls aged 13-19 years were successfully interviewed (96%). The major reason given for non- response was refusal by parent/guardian.

Sample Size

The target population for this assessment consists of adolescent girls aged 13-19 years residing in the ten targeted counties.

This assessment was designed to get point estimates for the key indicators listed in Table 2 with 95% confidence interval and 5% margin error.

Based on the sample size calculation the recommended minimum sample size of 384 was required for this participant-based assessment

2.3 Assessment Limitations

A summary of the assessment limitations is presented in the table below:

1. Ethical Review: This assessment was considered an internal preliminary activity to enable the conduct of larger, more definitive studies and will provide information that is valuable in local contexts. Ethical approval from the Review Board was therefore not sought. Albeit informed consent was administered prior to participation and ethical considerations were applied to ensure the risks were minimized and participants were protected from any harm. The assessment findings may therefore not be published in peer reviewed journals.

2. Random Selection of participants- Purposive sampling was conducted. Assessment findings are aligned only to objectives of the assignment and not generalized to represent similar context in Kenya

3.Sample size Power- Small sample size used. Assessment findings aligned only to